Investment funds

The funds are also some of the lowest-duration products in the market.

Nearly all of your efforts should revolve around your website, showing who you are and why your firm is different, says marketing expert Dan Sondhelm.

The central bank’s pledge to buy investment-grade credit and certain funds helped spark a rally in higher-rated debt.

Asset managers may need to reassess the assumption that’s become widely held in recent years: that inflation is dead.

“Recent further Fed action from COVID-19 seems to put another layer on a near-40-year bond bull market,” an expert says.

The relief allows funds to obtain cash infusions through collateralized loans until the end of June.

The iShares fund saw the second-biggest inflow in its 18-year history after the central bank said it would begin buying corporate bonds and credit ETFs.

After becoming unmoored in recent weeks as bond market liquidity dried up, funds that stand to benefit from the central bank’s buying are now rallying.

In need-for-speed markets lashed by the spreading coronavirus, this breed of rules-based trading is paying off.

The funds are trading at staggering discounts to their net asset values in what some have dubbed an “illiquidity doom loop.”

Five of the top seven performers this year carry AA ratings.

The fund paid out about $150 billion in redemptions Thursday, all in cash.

The platform aims to "assist … in meeting demands for redemptions” as alarm over the coronavirus continues to cause strains in short-term funding markets.

An imagined conversation with the legendary Vanguard founder about the coronavirus market crash.

The firm had received margin calls from counterparties including BNP Paribas after its trades went awry, people familiar with the matter said.

Funds with higher risk profiles — high-yield and emerging markets — are now paying the price.

Lenders have been ringing up investment firms and hedge funds to garner interest in financing to companies in industries upended by the coronavirus.

These retirement vehicles can be less complex and cheaper than alternatives.

With more than $80 billion in combined assets under management, the winners have started out the year with a loss.

Few clients think to look at the impact of capital gains on their mutual funds.