Investment returns

Investors pulled more than $1 billion out of U.S. ETFs that invest in emerging markets last week, leaving the ETFs in the longest losing streak since September.

The nation’s third-largest school district, with almost 400,000 students, is on the brink of insolvency after years of skipping pension payments.

Franklin Resources said fiscal first-quarter profit dropped 21 % as the selloff in emerging markets and energy stocks and bonds erodes assets.

Vanguard says the expense reductions are a win for investors, but the fund provider industry is less enthusiastic, seeing the fee reductions as a grind to zero where product profitability disappears.

A five-year-old index tracking network security firms has slipped 14% in 2016, more than double the loss for the S&P 500.

Mutual funds have recently marked down the values of their stakes in several private technology companies. The moves are another jolt of sobriety for Silicon Valley startups as they face a tighter fundraising environment.

A somewhat darker tone could be observed emitting from the ETF.com conference this year.

The New York Stock Exchange may still be the king of ETFs among U.S. stock markets, but challengers to the throne are gaining ground.

After corporate debt investors suffered through the worst-ever start to a year, some of Wall Street’s biggest money managers and strategists say it’s time to start buying.

Earlier this year BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, announced that it would follow Fidelity and Federated in making changes to its money market fund offerings.