Investments

Industry veterans have warned that packaging the loans into funds that are easily accessible could pose a risk to retail investors unfamiliar with collateralized loan obligations.

Despite some impressive short-term gains, more than half underperformed their peers over the decade.

Investors are placing their bets on value funds after the category posted its worst quarter this century in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

The decisions entrench a prolonged decline for prime funds, and could hurt a market that thousands of companies rely on for funding.

Funds that buy debt backing sustainability matters grew 12% from the end of 2019 globally, reaching a record $209.5 billion of assets, data show.

Waiting until year end to factor in portfolio volatility is risky business.

After an SEC lawsuit, Dan Kamensky now faces criminal charges including securities fraud, extortion and obstruction of justice.

JPST, which tracks investment-grade securities maturing in a year or less, has attracted over $3.7 billion in flows this year.

Sales are tumbling and gravitating to different products as Wells Fargo settles a FINRA case and researchers examine the defunct fiduciary rule.

Hundreds of strategies that outperformed in backtesting are failing to live up to their hype once they are packaged up and sold as ETFs, a study finds.

Funds focused on the sector lost more than $2.4 billion in August, the most since 2016.

Wealthfront gives users more control over their money with automatic transfers to savings accounts or ETFs.

Ray Dalio’s $138 billion asset manager has tweaked its version of the strategy as yields hit historic lows, a person familiar with the matter says.

The department’s new proposal would restrict when fiduciaries can vote in retirement plans.

Tools from Betterment, Vestwell and FiduciaryShield make it easy for planners to become retirement plan advisors, but they need to think twice before jumping in.

Some of the biggest laggards have managed short-term gains of more than 40%.

Fidelity's letter to the Labor Department says the proposal isn't “well grounded or supported by much of the emerging data.”

Investors are trying to eliminate the cash drag in their portfolios, says Dan Suzuki, deputy CIO at Richard Bernstein.

Among some 500 large-cap U.S. mutual funds, those with at least one-third of manager positions held by women have beaten those with none, data show.

More than 600,000 ounces of the precious metal have been added to ETFs since mid-May.