Fund performance

Apollo Global Management will help OppenheimerFunds push into structured credit, middle-market loans and direct real estate as the private-equity firm expands its strategies to retail investors.

The asset management industry was clearly impacted by massive waves of selling last month, though it is slowly recovering.

The problems plaguing Petrobas are also dragging down Pimco, Fidelity and Capital Group -- the three biggest holders of its bonds.

Municipal bond traders were set for a second wave of new issuance to sweep over the market on Thursday. Riding the crest of the supply wave will be the North Texas Tollway Authority System's $750 million bond sale, buoyed by two recent rating upgrades.

The market tumult, initially sparked by concerns over an economic slowdown in China, showed a downside, as ETFs can be vulnerable to price swings during periods of market stress, partly because some are less liquid than stocks.

Municipal bond sales in the U.S. are set to increase in the next month while the amount of redemptions and maturing debt falls.

Ray Dalio’s $80 billion All Weather fund, designed to produce returns in most economic environments, fell 4 % in August, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Turmoil in financial markets prompted investors to pull $27.3 billion from U.S. mutual funds last week, the biggest withdrawal in more than two years.

Three-quarters of economist surveyed by Bloomberg in August say the Fed will lift the upper bound of its target rate to 0.5 % at its Sept. 16-17 meeting.

The $9.12 billion AQR Managed Futures Strategy Fund pulled in an estimated $360 million in net subscriptions last month through Aug. 28 as bets against commodities and currencies paid off.

For almost 30 minutes as hundreds of billions of dollars were erased from equities, no signals were sent by the world’s most popular sentiment gauge as options prices turned erratic. When it switched on, the VIX jerked higher faster than anyone had ever seen, rising 82% on its first tick to 51, a level not reached since the financial crisis.

Mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments is warning deflationary pressures in the U.S. are building.

Turbulence in financial markets gathered momentum amid intensifying concern over slowing global growth, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a correction and giving other stock gauges their worst losses since 2011.

Hedge funds betting on commodities lost the most in almost three years in July as the price-rout deepened.

The bond market is sending a warning to the Federal Reserve: a false step could leave the U.S. bogged down in a disinflationary quagmire well into the next decade.

The biggest investors are increasingly using ETFs as a way to dabble in inefficient and opaque bond markets.

Municipal bond sales in the U.S. are set to decrease in the next month while the amount of redemptions and maturing debt falls.

After riding a market boom to return almost six times the global industry average in the first five months of this year, Greater China-focused hedge funds had their worst month since September 2011.

A limited domestic market and a weak native currency have spurred a number of Canadian mutual fund providers to look to the U.S. retail market for growth opportunities.

Most mutual fund managers spread their money across many securities to curb risk, while a handful eschew traditional diversification and load up on a few holdings, convinced the rewards outweigh the dangers.