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AllianceBernstein, the money manager that oversees about $498 billion, ousted CEO Peter Kraus and more than half of the board in a shake-up.

Money Management Executive announced today the winners of this year’s Top Women in Asset Management Awards.

As investors assess the winners and losers from the Trump administration's policies and digest mixed economic data, they aren't endorsing all shares.

For the 33rd consecutive month through December, investors withdrew money from active managers. Last year, passively funds attracted almost $505 billion.

The company is basing its pricing on the idea that not all buyers of its iShares products are the same, and the strategy seems to be working.

The average pay for managers has dropped nearly 14% in three years.

Investors are also loading up on the metal through exchange-traded products, pouring $487 million into SPDR Gold Shares on Wednesday.

So far this year, 1.2 million shares were traded daily on average on the Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF, down from 2.2 million in the same period in 2014.

Millennials have placed 36% of their investable assets into ETFs, which is considerably higher than the 23% allocation on average by all other investors.

A single percentage point increase in ETF ownership has demonstrable effects on an individual stock, researchers said.

The world's central banks are beginning to plan their course through the uncharted waters of quantitative tightening.

How do smaller firm avoid paying six-digit fines for administrative shortcomings?

Motif’s Hardip Walia discusses attitudes of investors and the inadequacies with contemporary environmental, social and corporate governance investing.

In bond and stock markets, managers had been shorting volatility to generate additional yield, such as by selling out-of-the-money put and call options.

The regulator now has punished just one known person associated with the bank's admitted nationwide fiduciary violation: the RIA who flagged abuses.

Strategists cite inflation under-pricing in the U.S. economy, waning foreign demand and the Fed's bid to tighten its monetary stance faster than expected.

The board also canceled about $47 million of ex-community bank head Carrie Tolstedt’s stock options.

The capital increase — the bank's fourth since 2010 — is the centerpiece in CEO John Cryan's new turnaround plan.

The investment manager has filed an initial registration statement with the SEC for eight funds, sub-advised by two affiliates of Legg Mason.

They're not the only ones questioning the outlook for inflation.