Mutual funds

BlackRock said it is acquiring digital wealth management firm FutureAdvisor, joining the ever more crowded ranks of robo advisors.

A wave of selling gripped global markets as the rout in all but the safest assets deepened.

Turbulence in financial markets gathered momentum amid intensifying concern over slowing global growth, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a correction and giving other stock gauges their worst losses since 2011.

With retirement savings plans directly in focus, the Labor Department is one step closer to implementing a new fiduciary standard whose scope heartens supporters and troubles critics.

Alibaba’s finance affiliate unveiled a wealth management app to help less well-heeled Chinese buy into hundreds of funds and track stocks from Hong Kong to the Nasdaq off their smartphones.

The biggest investors are increasingly using ETFs as a way to dabble in inefficient and opaque bond markets.

Asset managers took lead roles to vehemently oppose the DoL's fiduciary standard proposal. In the course of the Department's hearings, some representatives fared better than others under scrutiny.

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

After riding a market boom to return almost six times the global industry average in the first five months of this year, Greater China-focused hedge funds had their worst month since September 2011.

A limited domestic market and a weak native currency have spurred a number of Canadian mutual fund providers to look to the U.S. retail market for growth opportunities.