Investment funds

Innovator ETFs, an asset manager, will debut its so-called buffer funds at a time when Treasury yields are hovering near historic lows and duration risk climbs.

It’s enough to frustrate star traders, leaving them vulnerable to poaching by hedge funds willing to pay more.

While Guinness Atkinson pursues the first full mutual fund-to-ETF conversion, similar moves have begun elsewhere in the fund industry.

The fund industry's latest arrivals underline the seismic shifts underway in the business of asset management.

If clients “looked just three months ago, these numbers would be glaringly different,” an expert says.

The firm has struggled to make money this year amid the market volatility sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A significant push to use the precious metal as portfolio insurance may create a self-reinforcing spiral that upends its appeal as a hedge.

The funds have recorded $248 billion in net inflows in 2020, up about 5% from this time last year.

The alternative asset manager surpassed its previous peak from the fourth quarter of 2017.

The scant personal details that do surface depict a clan allergic to the limelight, scornful of excess and almost comically unpretentious.

The 20 top-performers have generated gains well over 50% in the first seven months of the year.

The change bars money managers from using some types of business entities to take advantage of an exemption to rules laid out in the 2017 tax law.

The asset manager has become one of the fastest-growing hedge funds at a time when many competitors are losing assets.

A severe recession could be enough to completely wipe out the capital and surplus of four insurance firms as well as hobble a handful of others, the NAIC finds.

The firm allegedly didn't disclose its parent company paid a teacher union entity $10,000 a month “for its exclusive endorsement” as its preferred financial services partner, according to the regulator.

Despite growing to about $1.1 trillion in AUM, senior executives made a series of bets to keep pace in a changing industry that have yet to pay off.

Despite besting the broader market over the long-term, those at the top have underperformed in the first half of 2020.

“The primary drawback of fewer hedge fund filings is lack of clarity around crowding risk,” strategists from the firm write.

“No one could have envisioned what this virus was going to do to the commercial real estate space,” an expert says.

The fast money has more than three times the impact on equity valuations than long-term investors like pension funds, according to a recent paper.