Investment funds

Firms like the Denver-based money manager that run actively managed strategies have been losing to competitors offering lower-cost mutual funds and ETFs.

The move echoes a larger effort by Wall Street to boost brokerage revenue as investors flee actively managed funds for cheaper products.

If your investment time frame has been seriously long term, these are the funds that posted the best returns over the long haul.

Investors have started buying gold through ETFs again as holdings rose 0.9 metric tons.

Effort by the asset management giant is aimed to capture more muni bonds. Plus: Other launches.

The White House has made fiduciary part of investors' vocabulary.

Big investors are motivated by signs the world has finally escaped from the decade of limp economic growth.

Matrix Wealth Partners, partly owned by Fuld, will complement Matrix Advisors, a consulting firm that Fuld set up after Lehman's 2008 bankruptcy.

Competition is forcing fund companies to deliver "outperformance to their clients in new and innovative ways," says ACSI Funds CEO Phil Bak.

Investor sentiment is unabashedly high, with option costs falling and money flowing into stocks at an almost unprecedented rate.

16 individuals or teams are nominated in the four-category list.

The latest offering from Kevin O'Leary's O'Shares ETF Investments focuses on dividend-paying companies. Plus: Other launches.

The Financial Stability Board recommended that regulators bolster oversight of exchange-traded, mutual and other funds.

Clients are likely to overlook the possibility of portfolio failure, unexpected financial responsibility and health issues.

16 individuals or teams are nominated in the four-category list.

The latest offering from Kevin O'Leary's O'Shares ETF Investments focuses on dividend-paying companies. Plus: Other launches.

Goldman Sachs has a full suite of services to offer quants after upgrading its technology, according to the partners leading the effort.

The fund manager reported $277 billion in new money to its U.S. mutual funds and ETFs last year, while Fidelity and Franklin reported some of the largest outflows.

Even when they have a retirement plan, it is likely to be astronomically more expensive than those offered by large companies.

Large mutual, pension and hedge funds are chasing better returns in rallying U.S. stock markets thanks to President-elect Donald Trump's pro-growth policies.