Mutual funds

The head of a global standards-setting body argues that regulators overreacted to the financial crisis and says banking-style regulation is a poor fit for the asset management industry.

Goldman Sachs, which is looking to issue ETFs this year, hired BlackRock veteran Tony Kelly as head of product development for that unit.

The world’s biggest investment managers have won a reprieve from plans to label them as systemically important, staving off tougher regulation, as global authorities reassess the move.

Regulators are seeking to ensure that post-crisis rules and monetary policy aren’t creating a toxic brew that’ll explode amid a sudden exit by investors.

Currency-hedged ETFs in the U.S. have taken in a record $39.6 billion this year, up from $8.9 billion for all of 2014.

SEC Commissioner Kara Stein is worried that mutual fund sector is moving beyond the reach of the regulators.

Money funds are finding new ways to get the securities they need, opening a door for other institutions to step into roles once dominated by banks.

Power has shifted to the advisor, who is acting as the portfolio manager, ignoring intermediaries and going directly to the fund managers or assets they want in their portfolio models.

It was only the second time in a decade that the funds have shrunk at the start of June, in part because it coincides with a period when investors get paid from maturing debt and interest.

The $4.3 billion iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF saw investors withdraw $1.7 billion of cash in the six weeks ended June 5.

Crafting messaging goals for fund providers in an era of strict regulation can be stressful. But communications firm Blu Giant says there are ways to develop strategies, even for social media, that can keep a provider from drowning in too much information or sinking under regulatory fines.

It was only the second time in a decade that the funds have shrunk at the start of June, in part because it coincides with a period when investors get paid from maturing debt and interest.

Burdensome regulation costs and the prospect of potentially even more scrutiny continues to frustrate asset managers, but new management strategies and the continued growth of ETFs have proven to be bright spots for the industry.

The world's biggest investment managers, from BlackRock to Vanguard, have a simple message for Mark Carney, head of the Financial Stability Board: Stop trying to regulate us like banks.

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Old Mutual Global Investors transferred management of a $272 million bond fund to Bill Gross at Janus from his previous firm, Pimco.

Asset managers groaning under the weight of regulatory requirements scrambled to learn more about recent SEC proposals that would increase their data collection and reporting requirements about their holdings.

Welcome to the era of ETF mashups, whose issuers act like Dr. Frankenstein and combine popular strategies hoping the result will be greater than the sum of its parts.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and other U.S. officials should push global regulators away from designating individual asset managers and investment funds systemically important, ICI said.

There's a cloud over the J.P. Morgan unit where pensions are managed: The SEC is well along in an investigation into conflicts of interest in the bank's wealth-management unit, whose products include individual retirement accounts.