Mutual funds

Regulators remain worried about hard-to-sell assets held by high-yield bond funds as they probe whether the failure of the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund could be repeated, a top SEC official said.

According to research from online brokerage TD Ameritrade, there is one particularly risky ETF that is attracting the millennial demographic far more than other age groups.

Goldman Sachs has just filed for a new ETF called the Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund VIP ETF, which is based its popular “Hedge Fund Trend Monitor” research report.

Mutual funds are vulnerable to runs that can spill over and cause problems in the broader financial system, according to a blog post published today on Liberty Street Economics by staffers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Mutual funds lost nearly $8 billion in outflows for 2015, a 2% year-over-year decline. See which Morningstar category performed the best.

Fund administrators will need to contend with technological change, increased client demands and new competition, according to a recent survey of management executives across the globe commissioned by FIS.

Regulator concern that funds could trigger the next financial crisis have been unfairly drawn from a subset of the market, BlackRock said in a study of bond-market liquidity.

A look back at the markets may help advisors and their clients decide on whether to choose alternative strategy funds during a stock retreat.

A Vanguard tax lawyer turned whistle-blower David Danon and his hired law professor dispute recent expense ratio reductions at the firm.

Miller's fund is structured to make bets based in part on a computer model designed to predict natural disasters.

When investors in hedge funds rush to the exits at once, managers can find themselves forced to suspend redemptions.

Firms are hurt by slumping stock markets worldwide, prompting investors to dump anything perceived as risky.

Target date funds stumbled in 2015, after posting six years of positive returns following the financial and economic crisis.

Investors pulled more than $1 billion out of U.S. ETFs that invest in emerging markets last week, leaving the ETFs in the longest losing streak since September.

Franklin Resources said fiscal first-quarter profit dropped 21 % as the selloff in emerging markets and energy stocks and bonds erodes assets.

Vanguard says the expense reductions are a win for investors, but the fund provider industry is less enthusiastic, seeing the fee reductions as a grind to zero where product profitability disappears.

A five-year-old index tracking network security firms has slipped 14% in 2016, more than double the loss for the S&P 500.

Mutual funds have recently marked down the values of their stakes in several private technology companies. The moves are another jolt of sobriety for Silicon Valley startups as they face a tighter fundraising environment.

A somewhat darker tone could be observed emitting from the ETF.com conference this year.

Years of losses can take a toll on a client's psyche; they can also create buying opportunities.