Investment funds

While bond investor anxiety previously focused on how the funds respond to abrupt withdrawals, skeptics are now homing in on secondary trading.

The Labor Department is poised to release a rule that would make it easier for small businesses to establish a multi-employer 401(k) plan for their workers.

Fixed-income products designed to minimize interest rate risk are among the leaders.

Just five asset managers hold about 80% of the new money added to the municipal-bond market this year.

With markets near certain that the Fed will lower rates this month, debate has shifted to the size of the cut and its impact.

Investors wary of an intensifying trade war have piled into the firm's bond products, boosting net flows to $151 billion, according to the company.

The correlation between fees and performance is not “apples-to-apples when taking the funds’ underlying exposures into account,” an expert says.

The decision marks a shift for firm, which has largely ridden its equity-fund offerings.

Expense ratios associated with the new products range from 0.05% to 0.07%.

The transition is expected to take place within the next 12 to 18 months, however the firm says it will still manage the products’ underlying investments.