Investment funds

As the sector grows to over $30 trillion in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, one popular approach consists of excluding offenders.

The large number of closures in equities and “other” categories could not be offset by new additions, Index Industry Association research shows.

The SEC’s recently passed ETF modernization rule, which expands choice in the market, “is probably the end of the mutual fund industry.”

Despite their high fees and double-digit returns, nearly all have even outperformed themselves so far this year.

Worries about the proliferation of new funds were high at the first Bogleheads conference without the company’s former leader.

The move comes amid years of mediocre returns posted by hedge funds, prompting investors to pull money and demand lower fees.

Given that almost one-third of leveraged loans are just a downgrade away from triple-C, even a modest slowdown could create a snowball effect of sorts.

The downside for their clients, however, is it may obscure just how much credit risk they’re exposing themselves to.

The NHL team owner and famed asset manager’s challenges illustrates how the appetite for hedge funds has changed since he first got into the business.

The $10.1 billion fund’s star manager, well known for his contrarian investments, held on to a short position against U.S. Treasurys even as bonds rallied.

The top 20 nearly doubled their gains over the last year, data show.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

More than $1 trillion is invested in bond ETFs, with trading leaping 41% in 2018 from a year earlier, according to research.

The strategy has in theory made no money for investors 42% of the time since 2018, new research shows.

The regulator’s expanding number of share-class cases fill in the details it says have been missing from Form ADV disclosures about conflicts of interest.

Broadly, hedge funds lost about 0.1% last month, paring gains for the year to about 6.2%, data show.

In a little-noticed rule change, mutual funds no longer disclose their shrinking BD commission load-sharing payments.

“Not every muni is trying to achieve the same thing,” an expert says.

Geopolitical friction and a slowdown in global economic growth have boosted the metal’s demand despite signs of recent wavering.

Clients should consider paying more deductible expenses before year-end if their total itemizable deductions will be close to their standard deduction amount.