Fixed income

Some accuse index funds of promoting monopolies and distorting markets, among other horrors, but nothing has stemmed the wave of inflows to passive.

Cloning funds and shifting client cash may be Wall Street’s best hope for challenging the dominance of firms like State Street, BlackRock and Vanguard.

“As we’ve gone through various crises, we’ve still told clients to stay invested and not get out of U.S. equities, it’s too early,” said Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, CIO for Goldman’s Private Wealth Management.

Some see a potential cure in a practice that’s commonplace from Italy to the U.K., but banned in the U.S.

Investment banks are increasingly studying the relative positioning of funds that compete with each other to beat benchmarks.

The firm added an experienced advisor from Wells Fargo after recruiting 72 other tenured reps in the second quarter.

If approved, the fund would be the first in the U.S. to follow a quantitative approach that allocates across asset classes based on risk.

Clients are advised to consider delaying their Social Security benefits, as up to 85% will be subject to income taxes, an expert says.

As much as $18 billion of inflows to money market funds last week were partly driven by the desire to “take some chips off the table,” an expert says.

IFS has notified regulators about the alleged illegal trades, which sources say cost the firm more than $10 million.