Fixed income

Some firms are hiring more analysts and salesmen in hopes for a windfall from the rules.

Advisers have turned into the new active investment managers.

The purchase is a part of a growing effort to provide investors with information about the eco-friendliness of their portfolios.

Fidelity already has a private fund in China, and BlackRock plans to launch one as well.

The firm’s growth last quarter was the biggest since the 2014 departure of its co-founder Bill Gross.

Aside from stocks, strong and consistent trends have been hard to come by this year.

The positive net flows of U.S. mutual funds was driven by taxable bonds.

Energy and financial shares lifted the S&P 500, though the index erased more than half of its gain in the final hour of trading.

Even though they have posted positive returns, debt and equities markets have been moving in opposite directions for the better part of two decades.

Assets in products susceptible to the risk of fire sales during a future shock are up 673% since 2000.

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Buying behavior may reflect underlying imbalances and mismatches between desired holdings and what’s available to purchase.

Actively managed funds saw the majority of the largest outflows this year as investors flocked to less expensive passive alternatives.

The money manager created the new role in order to accelerate the growth of the funds.

Passive investments garnered most of the investor cash so far in 2017, but beyond that it was a wide net: S&P 500, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income — anything that could be structured as an ETF.

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June, July, and August are projected to reach new highs, generating more than $100 billion of proceeds from called and maturing bonds.

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