The vast majority of these funds are new, and they require scrutiny in context of other assets.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> includes gold hitting its highest level since September. Plus: Obama wants to tak 529 plans to fund free community college, emerging-market-debt managers emerge from the wreckage of 2014, and it's time to change some passwords.
Adviser-sold fund giant starts to see some flows after pressing view that active management, especially for retirement goals, works.
Some strategies stay aggressive right up to target date while others dial down risk; each group has its reasons
The solid relative performance of alternatives makes the case for diversification of portfolios in 2015.
Are advisers misunderstanding why investors seek out sustainable investments?
Investors continue to see domestic stocks as the best thing going: Legg Mason survey.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Despite beating 94% of its peers since Bill Gross left the company, Pimco's Total Return Fund still dropped $11.6 billion in January. Plus: Crude oil drives the markets, unbelievable unemployment data, and finding some investments buried beneath the winter snow.
To the chagrin of some, a fast-growing industry comes to terms with active management.
The wirehouse plans tools to explain the risks and benefits of hedge fund strategies to advisers whose allocations have been low.
Portfolio managers deliver strong performance with right central bank call, leading Morningstar to boost rating even as more investors pull assets.
Two giants remain in a tight race for buy-and-hold index investors' money as category total close to cracking the $2 trillion mark in a 'victory of vanilla' story.
Assets in ETFs designed to lessen volatility climb 15% in the first five weeks of the year.
'There's value to be found out there, but you have to look very carefully'
The ETF pioneer, whose lineup suffered the largest redemptions in history last month, aggressively cut prices on nearly a third of its funds. <i>(Don't miss the latest performance data and analysis on <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/featurelist/20150119/ETFQ42014" target="_blank">equity and fixed income ETFs</a>.)</i>
Investor says firm took lucrative payouts at the expense of shareholders.
After being <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20141216/FREE/141219931/alts-fund-manager-daniel-thibeault-arrested-in-securities-fraud" target="_blank"> arrested on charges of securities fraud</a>, alternative fund manager Dan Thibeault is now facing related civil charges from the SEC, which claims he siphoned off some $16 million in assets from his GL Beyond Income Fund to use for personal expenses. He calls the situation 'bizarre.'
Transparency promotes marketplace competition, supports better investor decision-making and exposes suspect market practices, Eaton Vance CEO says.
Advisers crucial to the fund giant's expansion into active management, mutual funds
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> features Gen Y and Gen X causing the the pace of 401(k) plan contributions to hit new heights. Plus: The ABCs of a hot REIT market, biotech stocks under the microscope, and something you might have in common with Bill Gates.
