Fund performance

Gold has rallied 27% this year as the Federal Reserve held off on raising U.S. interest rates.

The positioning leaves the biggest speculators at odds with an increasingly skeptical analyst contingent on Wall Street.

Bossen joined as director of ETF business development at the institutional intermediary division and will focus on the IndexIQ unit that MainStay acquired last year.

The world’s largest mutual fund company attracted $198.4 billion in the first eight months of this year.

Leveraged strategies may include selling volatility or dabbling in derivatives tied to interest rates or corporate credit.

With about $68 billion in assets in funds tracking it, the real estate industry has more money invested in it than any of the other main industry classifications.

The dollar strengthened and Treasuries extended their steepest monthly loss since June 2015 amid hawkish rhetoric from Federal Reserve officials over the past two weeks.

Aside from being impractical to build in the infancy of computers, an index fund, at one time, was an insult to investors who prided themselves on picking the best stocks out of thousands.

Since December, almost $90 billion has been withdrawn from mutual and ETFs, exceeding outflows from all but one year at this point of time in data going back to 1984.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s speech Friday was hawkish enough for Goldman Sachs to boost the odds of a September interest-rate increase, while Pimco said there was nothing of note in her remarks.

"Most people think, ‘I want a manager who's doing credit research, adjusting for duration, looking for blowups," says BlackRock fixed income strategist Karen Schenone.

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman maintained his bet against Herbalife even after the company reached a $200 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

After a five-year slump marked by mine closures and losses, gold producers are now worth twice what they were in 2015.

A class of investors that includes foreign central banks and mutual funds bought a record amount at the $34 billion debt sale.

Far from signaling industry hardship, increasing liquidations reflect the ETF industry’s ebullient growth.

At the end of this month, Real Estate will separate from Financials to become its own sector in the S&P 500.

Investors are being tempted by the 6.2% gains this year by hedge funds betting on distressed assets and restructuring

"We think assets that are less exposed to economic growth are likely to perform relatively well," said Mike Swell, a global portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

American Growth Fund announces its first offering focused on the legalized marijuana business.

Benchmark government yields are within about 22 basis points of a record low in the U.S.