Fund performance

The biggest U.S. mutual fund company led in estimated flows to both actively managed funds as well as those that track indexes.

While the sector has been in a slump, advisors who go beyond the recent returns can show clients how these funds have bested the S&P 500 over time.

The low-cost, passive trend may be accelerated because of new fiduciary rules issued by the Department of Labor.

Blackstone will shutter a mutual fund that allocates money to hedge fund managers following a large redemption by the vehicle’s main backer, Fidelity.

“We are at a point now where every manager, whether in fixed income or equity, has to show value for the fees they are charging,” says one consultant.

ETFs that invest in fixed income attracted record deposits in the first quarter.

Since 2012, Bats jumped ahead of Nasdaq to become the second-biggest operator of U.S. stock exchanges and got into currency trading, the world's biggest asset class.

Misguided assumptions among emerging-market bears have created investment opportunities after years of disappointing returns for the asset class, a Capital Group manager says.

The central claim in Gross' lawsuit against his former employer is challenged.

The fund has returned almost 2% this year and ranks in the top 11% of his Morningstar peers.

A key challenge posed by the pending fiduciary rule: are firms going to be active managers or are they going to be financial advisors?

BlackRock plans to cut about 400 jobs in what may be the biggest round of layoffs to date at the world’s largest money manager, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

A Blackstone mutual fund that allocates money to hedge funds lost almost half of its assets this month as the fund’s biggest backer, Fidelity, slashed its stake.

Last month, hedge funds participated in the fewest number of venture capital rounds in U.S. tech companies since 2013.

One of the world’s biggest ETFs that invests in Japan is delivering a double dose of pain to foreign investors.

The cost mutual funds charge investors is the lowest since at least 1996, according to new research from Washington, D.C.-based Investment Company Institute.

Hedge funds that bet on bonds prices falling were caught off guard as individual investors poured money back into junk debt funds in February.

The fixed-income trade is booming at BlackRock and other investment firms, which are capturing a greater amount of activity -- and fees -- with their ballooning credit ETF businesses.

Pimco says investors should move out of government securities and into corporate credit because the U.S. will avoid a recession.

Active funds may be winning the ongoing debate at the moment, but that comes with a few caveats.