Mutual funds

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.

Most mutual fund managers spread their money across many securities to curb risk, while a handful eschew traditional diversification and load up on a few holdings, convinced the rewards outweigh the dangers.

Critics: DoL fiduciary rule would harm investors; Advocates: Americans' "retirement savings are being depleted by conflicts of interest every day."

Pimco has overcome the departure of bond trader Bill Gross and a record period of outflows from its funds may be on the verge of ending, said Munich-based Allianz, the company’s owner.

Concerns about over-regulation and accusations of industry cynicism led the opening of the Labor Department's hearings on its proposal to impose fiduciary requirements on retirement advisors.

The sudden closure of a TAMP spurred a competitor to seek a position to benefit from its demise, recognizing an opportunity to ramp up its growth plans, asset base and workforce.

Warnings of a liquidity crisis in the bond market are a myth created by Wall Street in hopes of repealing regulation, said Krishna Memani, the chief investment officer of OppenheimerFunds.

Investors yanked the most money in five weeks from municipal-bond mutual funds after Puerto Rico defaulted on debt.

Manulife Financial, Canada’s largest insurer, posted earnings that met analysts’ expectations as gains in insurance and asset management were tempered by rising interest rates.

In a world dominated by institutional investors, hedge funds and service industries, sentiment is as likely to drive prices as anything else, says former Salomon Brothers analyst Laszlo Birinyi.

Investors pulled $2.5 billion from Pimco's flagship fund in July, the 27th consecutive month of outflows from what used to be the world’s largest mutual fund.

Aberdeen Asset Management agreed to buy Arden Asset Management to expand its hedge-fund business.

The billions of dollars in new capital from mutual funds into startups are largely responsible for skyrocketing valuations, fewer initial public offerings and talk of a bubble.

Pimco said regulators are considering taking action against the firm over marking of securities in the exchange-traded fund version of its flagship Total Return Fund.

In the past 12 months investors traded $18.2 trillion worth of ETF shares, according to data from the NYSE and Bloomberg. That means the amount of dollars exchanging hands through ETFs is now more than the U.S. GDP, which stands at $17.4 trillion.

'Shark Tank's' Kevin O'Leary assumed the starter role for his own venture into ETFs this month, partnering with FTSE Russell to launch the O'Shares FTSE US Quality Dividend ETF, the first in a series of five smart beta funds.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is starting two money market funds and making changes to two others to comply with stricter rules for funds that offer a stable $1 net asset value.

Bond dealers are standardizing methods for analyzing fixed-income exchange-traded funds as they seek to boost trading.

Asset management industry critics of the Department of Labor's fiduciary initiative issued a torrent of comments blasting the proposed regulation as costly, unworkable and harmful to low- and middle-income investors.