With the $3 trillion in exchange-traded funds worldwide expected to double by 2020, the powerful bank is preparing to launch its first line of them.
New analysis suggests the difference between top and bottom unconstrained funds was Treasury exposure and the effectiveness of the manager's market timing.
Allowing mutual funds to flip a switch and turn on exit fees for investors on a moment's notice seems reactionary and short-sighted.
New ActiveBeta funds, which try to beat the market, give Goldman a foothold in ETFs.
Rules governing markets need to be updated because they aren't designed to cope with the proliferation of exchange-traded funds: BATS CEO.
The strategy can help deliver gains when times are good but can damage the diversification investors often blindly rely on when allocating to many index-based ETFs.
In a year when its peers lost 15% investing in commodities, DoubleLine wades in with a long-short strategy.
Mutual funds may be able to charge their investors who rush to cash out during periods of market stress under a rule being considered by the SEC.
The unshakable fealty of financial advisers is starting to pay off for American Funds in the wake of historic sales declines.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20150115/FREE/150119961/j-p-morgan-funds-garner-most-dollars-from-advisers-morningstar" target="_blank">the top-selling stock-picking fund manager for the past two years</a>, is getting help selling its index-tracking ETFs from Charles Schwab.
The factor-based investor popular with financial advisers will build indexes for John Hancock funds.
The billionaire who built Franklin Templeton survived a lawsuit by the son of an early investor who said he was cheated out of a stake in the firm worth $136 million. But the company will still have to defend itself in court.
Firm follows BlackRock, Deutsche Bank and WisdomTree in rolling out currency-hedged offerings.
Firm will waive a portion of its management fee and limit expenses for at least the first year of the large-cap version of its ActiveBeta ETFs.
VTL manages eight ETFs and $1.7 billion, is known for funds that use rule-based approaches to select stocks that may outperform the market.
A first for the mutual fund industry, and the cheapest offering in ETFs, an analyst says.
Jeffrey Gundlach's $48.2 billion DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund returned 0.7% over the past month while his peers showed losses.
Tax-exempt category is actually benefiting from the dark cloud hanging over it.
Envestnet has agreed to make NextShares, a unique hybrid of mutual funds and ETFs, available to some of its 41,000 affiliated financial advisers, delivering Eaton Vance its first distribution partner for the product.
Money manager asks the SEC for permission to build exotic funds.
