Fund performance

Three funds tracking the debt products attracted a combined $2.3 billion in one week.

Despite returns of about 8% last year, the products lagged behind the S&P 500’s 22% climb.

The funds with the biggest AUM declines didn’t badly underperform, but investors often found cheaper alternatives.

It paid in 2017 to be a penny-pinching retiree because target-date funds dominate the cross-section of profitable and cheap.

Advisors should not overlook client savings accounts as idle funds.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

Passive funds are the decisive victor in attracting cash.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

To add insult to injury, these returns didn’t even come cheap. The average expense ratio was more than 1%.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

These eye-popping returns didn’t come cheap. Expense ratios averaged more than 1% and went as high as 158 basis points.

Data reported by FUSE Research.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

Investors may be growing impatient with implementation of the administration’s agenda, an analyst says.

Emerging markets, value and small-cap funds dominate the list, but other factors need to be considered, as well.

Research into the point system for ranking funds questions whether the metric is valid in gauging future performance.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

The firm recently dismissed two portfolio managers due to inappropriate behavior.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.