The firm's position as the top TDF provider strengthened against No. 2 Fidelity Investments, which actually had net outflows for this category last year.
Finding funds likely to beat their benchmarks remains the challenge, and where financial advisers can earn their keep
Finra orders the firm to pay about $2.9 million to two investors in Puerto Rico closed-end municipal bond funds. Total claims top $1.1 billion.
The comment period for the rule, which was introduced in December, closed on Monday.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> The Fed says the markets are too obsessed with too much information.
Offerings meant to help counter a trend toward passive index strategies.
An interactive list of all the funds to be honored, across all years of return and categories
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> A couple of Vanguard and Fidelity mutual funds raise questions about when it is time to close a fund to new investors.
Brazil, Russia, India and China were singled out as the investment theme of the new century, but they've fallen like bricks the past five years.
Even with its gains and long life, most investors have been lukewarm toward the stock market.
A new frontier for ETFs?
Exchange-traded funds have achieved a new feat, producing dozens of funds that are riskier than the most volatile individual stocks in the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index.
The Securities and Exchange Commission will be looking at ETF sales strategies, trading practices and disclosures, as well as suitability and sales supervision of variable annuities.
The firm has amassed four times the amount of assets held by either Betterment or Wealthfront and more than twice as much as Schwab.
Blackstone Alternative Multi-Manager Fund's assets have fallen to $631 million from $1.2 billion.
Long-suffering energy limited partnership funds, for example, have leaped 21.46% the past 30 days.
Investing strategies focused on environmental, social and corporate governance causes continue to gain momentum, even if they're not mainstream just yet. </br><b><i>(Related: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20160306/FREE/160309952/the-top-performing-socially-conscious-funds"" target=""_blank"" rel="noopener noreferrer">The top-performing socially conscious funds</a>)</b></i>
The minimum investment is $5 billion for the stock fund, and $3 billion for the bond fund.
Faced with one bond-fund meltdown and worried about others, the Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing new rules to ensure investors can get their money back when they want it.
