Mutual funds

The nine-year-old Morgan Stanley China A Share Fund, the first U.S. closed-end fund to invest in mainland stocks, has slumped 13% this year through Sept. 18 on a total return basis, compared with a 6.2% decline in the benchmark it tracks.

So much investor cash has been parked in fixed-income mutual funds and ETFs there’s concern that no one will be there to buy when money managers need to sell.

Apollo Global Management will help OppenheimerFunds push into structured credit, middle-market loans and direct real estate as the private-equity firm expands its strategies to retail investors.

Goldman Sachs may find breaking into the ultra-competitive U.S. ETF industry a long, tough slog.

The most anticipated ETF launch of the year will provide U.S. investors access to a basket of locally listed Saudi stocks.

The asset management industry was clearly impacted by massive waves of selling last month, though it is slowly recovering.

The problems plaguing Petrobas are also dragging down Pimco, Fidelity and Capital Group -- the three biggest holders of its bonds.

Goldman Sachs, rarely thought of as a low-cost option, is seeking to be just that with a new line of ETFs.

Charles Hallac, who conceived BlackRock’s investment management platform and founded its advisory business, has died. He was 50.

The market tumult, initially sparked by concerns over an economic slowdown in China, showed a downside, as ETFs can be vulnerable to price swings during periods of market stress, partly because some are less liquid than stocks.

OppenheimerFunds agreed to acquire VTL Associates as part of a push into ETFs that weigh metrics beyond market capitalization when buying stocks.

Though technical issues with Bank of New York Mellon's fund accounting system left an estimated 10% of U.S. ETFs and some mutual fund providers unable to accurately price their products for nearly a week, the bank's custody business is expected to remain intact.

Municipal bond sales in the U.S. are set to increase in the next month while the amount of redemptions and maturing debt falls.

Market corrections provide an opportunity to rebalance into equities at lower prices and glean dividend income.

Turmoil in financial markets prompted investors to pull $27.3 billion from U.S. mutual funds last week, the biggest withdrawal in more than two years.

Pacific Investment Management Co.’s flagship fund fell below $100 billion in assets for the first time in more than eight years, leaving it with about a third of the money it managed at its 2013 peak.

Three-quarters of economist surveyed by Bloomberg in August say the Fed will lift the upper bound of its target rate to 0.5 % at its Sept. 16-17 meeting.

The $9.12 billion AQR Managed Futures Strategy Fund pulled in an estimated $360 million in net subscriptions last month through Aug. 28 as bets against commodities and currencies paid off.

Advisors and their clients may be rewarded for not joining the flight from tax-exempt bonds.

Bank of New York Mellon, which has been plagued for the past week with computer problems that prevented it from providing prices for mutual funds and ETFs, said today it has provided net asset values for both through Friday.