Investment funds

The clearing houses are too important to fail, and the current rules governing their risk management are too lax.

BlackRock issued and sold more shares than it was authorized to in its iShares Gold Trust, which could lead to penalties by regulators.

Three in five retirees cite staying mentally active as the reason they want to continue working; plus, if clients work in retirement, they should keep this in mind.

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

State Street's asset-management arm is starting an ETF that will track U.S. companies with female leaders.

Your clients' money is no good to these portfolio managers, but investors who already own these funds can still reap the rewards.

Jon Short, the head of wealth management at Pimco, is leaving after 10 years to join Dan Zwirn’s hedge fund, Arena Investors.

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

ETFs may be so complex and subject to such volatility that they require a distinct set of rules from equities, suggested SEC Commissioner Kara Stein.

Golub Capital is shutting down a $150 million credit-hedge fund that invested in distressed debt, following the market’s worst rout since the financial crisis.

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

Asset managers that stay on top of regulatory demands not only keep authorities happy, they gain a competitive advantage against other firms, says one fund administration executive.

Fidelity suspended sales of MetLife's annuities as the life insurer weighs a possible sale, spinoff or public offering of a retail unit that provides the retirement products.

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.

Goldman Sachs has just filed for a new ETF called the Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund VIP ETF, which is based its popular “Hedge Fund Trend Monitor” research report.

Mutual funds are vulnerable to runs that can spill over and cause problems in the broader financial system, according to a blog post published today on Liberty Street Economics by staffers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Mutual funds lost nearly $8 billion in outflows for 2015, a 2% year-over-year decline. See which Morningstar category performed the best.

Fund administrators will need to contend with technological change, increased client demands and new competition, according to a recent survey of management executives across the globe commissioned by FIS.