International funds

Once a top-performing fund with assets well over double today’s value, Templeton’s flagship bond fund has been diminished by the march of passive investments.

Similar products are stockpiling unprecedented levels of new cash as investors look to alternative assets for growth and income.

It was the biggest annual leap for strategies focused on corporate or government debt since 2014, boosting assets to more than $800 billion, data show.

Already, the fund has agreed to transactions involving German wind energy project developer PNE and Altice Europe’s Portuguese fiber assets.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

So much faith has been put on the partial trade deal with China that stocks have nearly recovered since President Trump’s first round of tariffs on imports.

Risky assets outside the U.S. are seeing fresh flows as a potential trade deal with China buoys expectations for global growth.

Equity funds tracking the sector are the second-most popular asset class after U.S. government bonds this year, BNP Paribas says.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

The top 20 nearly doubled their gains over the last year, data show.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

At more than twice the price of the average fund, many with the even biggest gains still underperformed the broader market over the last decade.

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Among funds impacted so far, the Invesco China Technology ETF fell 2.8%, while the KraneShares CSI China Internet Fund lost 3.8%.

After hitting the lowest level since January, the fund climbed on Tuesday as the Trump administration made efforts to de-escalate its dispute with China.

Of the 25 new ETFs, the majority come from JPMorgan and investment company Direxion.

If reached, the deal would precede a potential IPO of the $52 billion firm, which oversees asset allocations of domestic and offshore pension funds.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

If approved, the actively managed product will hold anywhere from 60 to 100 equities across sectors and will have no position holding over 5%.

The firm is snapping up five- and 10-year notes as it predicts slowing inflation and trade tensions will push the Fed to lower its benchmark 75 basis points.