Mutual funds

Many U.S. stock funds posted double-digit percentage gains, but international equities fared even better. Which were the biggest winners?

Tim Buckley has to navigate the perils of passive-investing dominance.

The funds with the biggest AUM declines didn’t badly underperform, but investors often found cheaper alternatives.

It paid in 2017 to be a penny-pinching retiree because target-date funds dominate the cross-section of profitable and cheap.

Bets on a bullion rally decline as interest shifts to cryptocurrencies.

Dec. 18: The proposed active offerings are set to debut in February.

The fund provides exposure to companies associated with cannabis, alcohol and tobacco.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

Passive funds are the decisive victor in attracting cash.

The change builds on earlier policy shifts at Ameriprise, which previously pulled more than 1,500 funds from its platform.

The regulator charged the firm and its owner with fraud in a case centered on commissions and 12b-1 fees.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

Dec. 11: Asset management experts say these topics will be key drivers in 2018.

To add insult to injury, these returns didn’t even come cheap. The average expense ratio was more than 1%.

The bank's retail brokerage business sold customers shares in mutual funds with front- or back-end sales charges when they were eligible for Class A shares that waived the upfront sales load, FINRA claimed.

The IBD has boosted payouts for advisors as it trims lower producers from its ranks.

The $284 billion asset manager aims to track municipal bond prices in its mutual funds with the service.

Factor-based approaches to index investing have won heaps of investment. Can it last?

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

Investors would be required to sell the shares they purchase first, which often is the lot that has the most gains and thus generates the bigger tax hit.