Mutual funds

The firm plans to focus on raising money for products that lock up capital for several years, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Executives say the race to zero in fund fees and improvements in data and analytics are among the top issues impacting asset management.

With the reductions, nearly all of the firm’s index funds will have total net expenses lower than comparable Vanguard products.

With double-digit annualized returns produced by nearly all of these funds, the ranking illustrates the broader trend toward passive investing.

The hedge fund he founded, Appaloosa Management, has returned 25% a year since inception in 1993.

Years of trial and error and research behind the scenes and continuing client-facing education resulted in the portfolio-mix sweet spot.

Although the firm sees risk parity as a way to compliment holdings of its biggest customers, critics see a volatile fund that has underperformed.

The billions of dollars that have flooded the state and local debt market this year have only heightened the craving.

The top 20 collected nearly $1 trillion in combined assets.

Nearly all posted losses over the last year.

Most Capital Group portfolio managers have at least $1 million of their own money in their funds.

They’re taking the asset management on themselves in a larger push toward disintermediation, says the firm’s global head of software products.

Most inflows in the space went to products with over 80% of their assets in index funds, new research from Morningstar finds.

These double-digit returns came at a price lower than the rest of the sector.

Asset managers are seeking alternatives to standard mutual fund products.

Clients are paying about half as much to own funds as they were 20 years ago.

Rather than developing a new family of ETFs, the asset manager created them as a share class within its existing mutual funds.

The mutual funds and ETFs that ranked at the bottom of the sector still benefited from a “long-running bull market,” an expert says.