Fixed income

Funds' past performance is no guarantee of future performance — but if planners don't evaluate the past, how can they best communicate investment decisions to clients? Here's how to balance on that tightrope.

“The market is actually using proxies for understanding ESG data,” says BlackRock’s global head of sustainable investing.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

A bull decade doesn’t necessarily mean a zero-sum next 10 years, planners say.

How sequence of returns affects retirement portfolio survival.

The $10.1 billion fund’s star manager, well known for his contrarian investments, held on to a short position against U.S. Treasurys even as bonds rallied.

The decommissioning of redundant measures outweighed the creation of new benchmarks, according to a new report from the Index Industry Association.

“The combination of low rates, curbs on state and local tax deductions, and consistent economic expansion have been a nice tailwind,” an analyst says.

Someone with a long-term investing horizon is generally not helped by bailing out of a well-diversified, multi-asset portfolio. Here are some options for them, and some talking points for you.

Funds of funds, pensions, consultants, family offices and endowments have pulled $16.4 billion from generalist long-short equity funds this year.

Gurinder Ahluwalia, CEO of 280 CapMarkets, outlines new bond-trading infrastructure for wealth management, along with his argument for why fears of PE capital are unfounded.

The strategies will invest in corporate bonds and large companies that issue high dividends, or have a growth or value tilt, documents show.

The annual “evolution revolution” report and an analyst’s overview show how fiduciary advice is reshaping wealth management.

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.