Investment funds

“There’s less performance chasing than you saw in the past, and that’s a positive thing,” an expert says.

Helping clients develop a solid investment strategy is an important step to help them survive market volatility.

The planned launch from Cornerstone Capital would be the firm’s first stock fund for individual investors with social and environmental goals.

Fund industry Darwinism should be seen as healthy and natural in a thriving — albeit brutal — market, an expert says.

Funds' past performance is no guarantee of future performance — but if planners don't evaluate the past, how can they best communicate investment decisions to clients? Here's how to balance on that tightrope.

After a recent policy switch, many clients at the wirehouse can no longer use balances from their deposit accounts to purchase shares in these funds.

Double-digit gains produced by the mutual funds and ETFs with the most AUM were not enough to best the broader market.

Risky assets outside the U.S. are seeing fresh flows as a potential trade deal with China buoys expectations for global growth.

Self-directed brokerage accounts at the firm hold about 20% of their portfolios in cash.

Banks are hoping strategies like technology-enabled portfolio trading will help them grab a bigger slice of the shrinking fixed-income pie.

The fact that it’s impossible to track the amount of revenue sharing kickbacks demonstrates the problem, says the research firm’s lead policy wonk.

Clients overpaid more than $12 million because of operating flaws and coding failures in an automated device advisors relied on for executing mutual fund orders.

Equity funds tracking the sector are the second-most popular asset class after U.S. government bonds this year, BNP Paribas says.

Those that shorted the market suffered “steep losses,” while market-neutral products posted “modest gains.”

Financed by their personal savings, the team behind the machine-learning fund have harnessed their engineering acumen to invest in developed markets.

Asset managers who flocked to safety in utilities and dividend stocks at the end of 2018 have seen their pain compounded by the latest risk-on rally.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

The SEC's recently passed ETF modernization rule is just one regulatory change industry leaders expect will impact asset management in the years ahead.

With an average gain of nearly 40%, the following mutual funds and ETFs are narrowly invested in the most attractive segments of the market.