Fund performance

After some disappointing numbers from the first half of this year, Yellen may have concluded that she needed more time between June and September to be comfortable that the economy had regained sufficient momentum.

Bill Gross is no longer running the world’s biggest bond fund, but one thing hasn’t changed: his love for Mexico.

Even though ETF assets in the U.S. have surpassed those of hedge funds, there are managers returning at least triple the return of U.S. stocks and beating bonds by more than 10 times.

The iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers exchange traded fund has attracted $247 million in net inflows this year, the biggest first-half total since it started trading in May 2006.

Robert Arnott, CEO of Research Affiliates, says the asset management industry has to change its mindset toward innovation in order to remain competitive.

When it’s spring and the days get longer, risk appetites grow and cash flows to equities, according to a new study. As winter approaches, safer alternatives like the money market come into favor.

Ideal Asset Management CEO Rahul Shah says the bond between advisor and client is strengthened best through proven performance.

Currency-hedged ETFs in the U.S. have taken in a record $39.6 billion this year, up from $8.9 billion for all of 2014.

With the Federal Reserve poised to unleash its first interest rate increase in almost a decade there's a debate among investors about whether the past is any guide to how markets will react to a monetary tightening.

This year, for the first time since the financial crisis, hedge funds are winning.

State Street Corp., which opened the first U.S. exchange-traded fund in 1993, is starting its first currency-hedged ETF.

The $4.3 billion iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF saw investors withdraw $1.7 billion of cash in the six weeks ended June 5.

It was only the second time in a decade that the funds have shrunk at the start of June, in part because it coincides with a period when investors get paid from maturing debt and interest.

Burdensome regulation costs and the prospect of potentially even more scrutiny continues to frustrate asset managers, but new management strategies and the continued growth of ETFs have proven to be bright spots for the industry.

Welcome to the era of ETF mashups, whose issuers act like Dr. Frankenstein and combine popular strategies hoping the result will be greater than the sum of its parts.

How well can active managers adapt to a market favoring passive funds and cheap ETFs? One firm's response is to offer a passive ETF of its own with the goal of demonstrating it can be good at passive and active strategies.

More than $1.55 billion has been withdrawn this month from ETFs concentrated on energy stocks such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron.

Closely tracking the ETF market for Windhaven Investment Management, Linda Zhang is excited at the potential for overall ETF growth.

Mary Erodes has helped J.P. Morgan - with $230 billion in fund assets, excluding money market funds - to stand out in its ability to bring in assets, particularly to equity funds at times when other firms saw outflows.

There's more ways for the mutual fund industry to cut costs, says Bill McNabb, chief executive officer and chairman of Vanguard.