ETFs

More money has been pulled from hedge funds than added over the past four quarters, while ETFs reeled in $312 billion last year.

The SEC has just approved an ETF with negative fees — a sign that fund managers need to continue adjusting to their straitened circumstances.

They’re taking the asset management on themselves in a larger push toward disintermediation, says the firm’s global head of software products.

CEO Tim Buckley acknowledges at the Morningstar conference that the firm is trying to convert investors to its Personal Advisory Services business, but won’t specify the target.

After a decade-long bull market in U.S. stocks, rebalancing into international equities may make sense for some clients.

These double-digit returns came at a price lower than the rest of the sector.

Asset managers are seeking alternatives to standard mutual fund products.

Clients are paying about half as much to own funds as they were 20 years ago.

One of its products added a record $368 million after the firm discreetly slashed its fee in March.

Rather than developing a new family of ETFs, the asset manager created them as a share class within its existing mutual funds.