Investment funds

Among the decade’s worst performers — those with more than $1 billion in assets under management — were a handful of products with stellar short-term returns.

Flows into U.S. fixed-income products this year have already surpassed the total for all of last year.

The decade’s top-performers have produced returns of more than four-times their industry peers this year.

Do-it-yourself-minded investors have never had more places to put their savings, writes Bloomberg’s Nir Kaissar.

The Managed Funds Association urged the agency to do more analysis before moving forward.

The world’s largest debt market may not be as sleepy as it seems.

In the first half of the year, fewer than a third of U.S. domestic equity fund managers delivered annualized returns that outpaced the S&P Composite 1500.

“It’s not just a shiny object, it’s really about content,” the firm’s head of ETFs and indexed strategies said.

A State Street fund avoiding crude holdings has beaten the S&P 500 by 3.6 percentage points since its inception, generating an annual return of 12.9%.

“Investors are going into lower, more passive mutual funds because they don't want to pay the fees,” an expert says.