Mutual funds

Third Avenue Management was sued by an investor who said the firm failed to maintain adequate liquidity despite signs the fixed- income market was increasingly volatile.

Record redemptions, regulatory pressure and market volatility took their toll. But these 10 open-end high-yield bond funds are the largest trading in the U.S., and we've ranked them by net assets.

The slide of steadfast high-yield bond funds has advisors and their clients wondering what comes next.

Investors pulled more than $2.1 billion out of U.S. ETFs that invest in emerging markets last week, the most since August. China and Hong Kong led the losses.

Fund flows over the course of a number of years now have been pointing decidedly in favor of passive strategies, he says, be they index, mutual funds or ETFs.

AQR Capital managed the top-performing liquid alt fund in 2015, returning 17.6%.

Invesco acquired Jemstep, a robo solution for advisors, for an undisclosed sum. It's the latest in a line of digital advice moves from asset management giants, which began in earnest last year.

BlackRock is urging U.S. regulators to exclude ETFs from potential rules that could crimp investment returns.

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The acquisition of Jemstep follows the steps of Invesco’s competitors to buy or build a digital platform.

Third Avenue Management, which took the rare step of freezing redemptions in a distressed debt mutual fund last month, saw investors also pull money from its equity funds, contributing to a 21% decline in the firm’s assets last quarter.

Fund flows over the course of a number of years now have been pointing decidedly in favor of passive strategies, he says, be they index, mutual funds or ETFs.

About 9% of the high-yield market now boasts yields above 20% — the highest amount since the financial crisis. Buyer beware.

2015 saw 15 records broken by the corporate bond market in 2015, though not all of them were necessarily positive.

Investors are reassessing expectations for dollar appreciation after the greenback strengthened against all 16 of its major peers last year.

In data collected from looking at the returns of 2,076 fund managers from 1975 to 2006, IFA researchers concluded that 99.4% of fund managers lack "genuine stock-picking ability," while 0.6% were "just lucky" at attaining positive returns.

Vanguard attracted a record $236 billion in net deposits in 2015 as investors flocked to passively managed products.

In the midst of global turmoil, these funds have turned in the best performances over three years.

Chicago-based NextCapital announced a $16 million funding deal in mid-December that includes support from Manulife and AllianceBernstein. It had already found investors in 2014 from Russell Investments and Transamerica Ventures Fund.

Munis produced a 5.8% risk-adjusted return in 2014, more than double the other investments. They also outperformed in 2011 and 2012 as yields -- which move in the opposite direction as price -- fell to the lowest since the 1960s.