Mutual funds

Vanguard has joined the fight against a plan by the Financial Stability Board to identify too-big-to-fail investment funds, calling its proposal deeply flawed.

Potential rate increases are keeping income investors skittish. Here's how to deliver smart strategy and informed advice.

How well can active managers adapt to a market favoring passive funds and cheap ETFs? One firm's response is to offer a passive ETF of its own with the goal of demonstrating it can be good at passive and active strategies.

Pimco considered recruiting Gary Cohn, president of Goldman Sachs, as a top executive in 2013, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Guide Financial, which counted among its advisors Esther Stearns, former head of Nestwise -- a now-shuttered LPL venture aimed at middle-class clients -- is the latest technology provider to be acquired.

Most managers have not yet realized the full potential of social media, or set corporate policy, to augment their institutional sales and marketing efforts.

More than $1.55 billion has been withdrawn this month from ETFs concentrated on energy stocks such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron.

To tap into the demand for socially responsible investing, asset managers would do well to understand the different approaches that exist even within the market niche known as environmental, social and governance.

Closely tracking the ETF market for Windhaven Investment Management, Linda Zhang is excited at the potential for overall ETF growth.

Martha B. Willis and her team have introduced over 17 new products across OppenheimerFunds and integrated the offerings of SteelPath, an energy-focused investment company and recent acquisition.

Amy Schioldager was responsible for BlackRock's first ETF portfolios in 1996. At the time, she recalls being told that ETFs would never be accepted.

Mutual funds and ETFs with overlapping holdings cloud the waters for rules aimed at tax-loss harvesting in individual securities. Be sure you're not putting clients at risk.

To earn success, says Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, the chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs' Private Wealth Management Group, do whatever it takes to become the best at what you do.

Women can gain leadership roles in asset management by having a voice, says Kim Mustin, the head of North American distribution at BNY Mellon Investment Management.

Martha King is proud of how far Vanguard's financial advisory division has come since the mutual fund giant launched its first ETF 13 years ago.

Michelle Mikos, the ETF business development director at Invesco Powershares, helped co-found Women in ETFs, a group dedicated to supporting women in the asset management industry.

Women must remain curious, have courage and bring confidence to the workplace in order to find and ensure success, says Maureen Leary-Jago, senior global advisor at MFS Investment Management.

As president of Chicago-based Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson has dedicated herself to acting as an advocate of financial literacy and investor education.

Carla Harris's message to women hoping to rise up in their fields: be true to who you are. Another: "If you consider yourself a leader in the 21st century you must be comfortable taking risk."

Mary Erodes has helped J.P. Morgan - with $230 billion in fund assets, excluding money market funds - to stand out in its ability to bring in assets, particularly to equity funds at times when other firms saw outflows.