Fund performance

Investors are also loading up on the metal through exchange-traded products, pouring $487 million into SPDR Gold Shares on Wednesday.

Money has flowed out of the vehicles at the fastest rate since June.

So far this year, 1.2 million shares were traded daily on average on the Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF, down from 2.2 million in the same period in 2014.

Most of the inflow came in the second half of the month after the Fed laid out an unexpectedly dovish rate-hike outlook, Russia's central bank said.

Low ETF fees as well as the weak performance from active strategies may be to blame.

Taking an agnostic approach, the firm seeks international opportunities. Plus; other launches.

The firm's success bucks a long-held premise that investing in developing markets requires active managers responding to sudden shifts in political risk.

The firm's success bucks the long-held premise that investing in developing markets requires active managers responding to sudden shifts in political risk.

He cited an IMF report that suggests growth is impaired by slow business investment and an aging population with reduced demand for consumption.

Futures closed at the highest in six weeks after Saudi Arabia was said to likely support prolonging output reductions.

In bond and stock markets, managers had been shorting volatility to generate additional yield, such as by selling out-of-the-money put and call options.

The GDP growth spread between emerging-market and developed-market nations is expected to widen in 2017 to the most in three years.

Investor anxiety has mounted amid discord between the Trump administration and Russia over Syria and festering U.S.-North Korea pressures.

The new move amounts to an estimate of $7 million cumulative savings. Plus; other launches.

The new move amounts to an estimate of $7 million cumulative savings. Plus; other launches.

Emerging markets had some of the most robust gains, with an average 5.5% return led by wagers in India and China.

At stake is more than $400 billion that Citigroup estimates is invested in commodity markets stuck in a tug-of-war between supply and demand.

Prospects for an outright shrinkage of the central bank’s roughly $4.5 trillion ledger didn’t discourage markets one bit — at least on Wednesday.

Will investors stick around? The answer may be in the oil market.

Macro hedge funds faced an investor backlash last year as clients pulled almost $10 billion.