Fund performance

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.

Investors are poised to pull as much as $400 billion from U.S. money market funds that buy commercial paper, predicts JMorgan Chase.

SPDR Gold shares have attracted $4.55 billion of new money in 2016, the most among all U.S.-listed ETFs.

Deposits into emerging-market ETFs that invest across developing nations as well as those that target specific countries totaled $139.4 million, down from $242 million in the previous week, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Eaton Vance today will launch the first-ever non- transparent actively-managed ETFs. Is it too late?

The argument's underlying reasoning is simple: Vanguard is cheating state and federal tax authorities by charging its customers much less than other fund companies do.

Regulators remain worried about hard-to-sell assets held by high-yield bond funds as they probe whether the failure of the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund could be repeated, a top SEC official said.

According to research from online brokerage TD Ameritrade, there is one particularly risky ETF that is attracting the millennial demographic far more than other age groups.

Regulator concern that funds could trigger the next financial crisis have been unfairly drawn from a subset of the market, BlackRock said in a study of bond-market liquidity.

About $2.3 billion has flowed into these ETFs so far this year.

A Vanguard tax lawyer turned whistle-blower David Danon and his hired law professor dispute recent expense ratio reductions at the firm.