ETFs

Real estate, communications, utilities and consumer staples funds have seen the most appetite, with every other sector experiencing outflows.

Defined-maturity funds offer traditional fixed-income interest payments.

Investors plowed into bullion-backed funds after the U.S. and China reached a truce in their trade war.

Eight of the top 10 have less than $100 million in assets.

Markets have been whipsawed by mounting concern over softer economic data and President Trump’s trade wars with major partners.

Bullion gains have intensified amid signs that the Fed and other central banks are turning more dovish on monetary policy.

The firm says it will focus the new funds on tech, demographics, urbanization, climate change and emerging global wealth.

Under new leadership, the firm’s iShares unit intends to create funds that it says go beyond traditional sectors and geographic focuses.

Revisiting his predictions from 2017, he doubles down on the importance of firms adapting to embrace industry trends — and offers some new forecasts.

Advisors will find the lowest, near-zero fund. Do they read the fine print?

The losers “offer exposure to extremely narrow and volatile segments of the market,” an expert says.

Fee pressure and improvements in data and analytics are among the leading issues the industry faces today, executives say.

Each of these funds has its own way of adding high-octane assets into clients' portfolios.

Worries over weak U.S. data, the impact of President Trump’s multi-front trade war and the interest rate outlook has whipsawed investors in recent weeks.

Following two recent mega-mergers in the bullion space, the fight to secure dominance is intensifying.

The firm is “looking to aggressively compete” by lowering and simplifying the fees on its advisory platforms, a top executive says.

The firm expects shareholders will save an estimated $3.2 million, annually.

The ETFs that bested the strategy “offer exposure to extremely narrow and volatile segments of the market,” an expert says.

Bullion is “once again trying to reclaim its role as a safe haven” amid trade war concerns and the Fed’s halt on rates, a strategist said.

The model, which runs on IBM’s Watson platform, has suffered from overweight positions in technology and energy, the month’s worst-performing sectors.