Mutual funds

Fund industry Darwinism should be seen as healthy and natural in a thriving — albeit brutal — market, an expert says.

Funds' past performance is no guarantee of future performance — but if planners don't evaluate the past, how can they best communicate investment decisions to clients? Here's how to balance on that tightrope.

After a recent policy switch, many clients at the wirehouse can no longer use balances from their deposit accounts to purchase shares in these funds.

Double-digit gains produced by the mutual funds and ETFs with the most AUM were not enough to best the broader market.

The fact that it’s impossible to track the amount of revenue sharing kickbacks demonstrates the problem, says the research firm’s lead policy wonk.

Clients overpaid more than $12 million because of operating flaws and coding failures in an automated device advisors relied on for executing mutual fund orders.

Equity funds tracking the sector are the second-most popular asset class after U.S. government bonds this year, BNP Paribas says.

Those that shorted the market suffered “steep losses,” while market-neutral products posted “modest gains.”

Asset managers who flocked to safety in utilities and dividend stocks at the end of 2018 have seen their pain compounded by the latest risk-on rally.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

The SEC's recently passed ETF modernization rule is just one regulatory change industry leaders expect will impact asset management in the years ahead.

With an average gain of nearly 40%, the following mutual funds and ETFs are narrowly invested in the most attractive segments of the market.

As the sector grows to over $30 trillion in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, one popular approach consists of excluding offenders.

The SEC’s recently passed ETF modernization rule, which expands choice in the market, “is probably the end of the mutual fund industry.”

Despite their high fees and double-digit returns, nearly all have even outperformed themselves so far this year.

Worries about the proliferation of new funds were high at the first Bogleheads conference without the company’s former leader.

The top 20 nearly doubled their gains over the last year, data show.

The regulator’s expanding number of share-class cases fill in the details it says have been missing from Form ADV disclosures about conflicts of interest.

In a little-noticed rule change, mutual funds no longer disclose their shrinking BD commission load-sharing payments.