Mutual Funds

Biggest weekly inflow since 2014 as investors pin hopes on commodity revival and political reform, according to EPFR Global data.

The line blurs between active and passive.

Many investors have reaped the benefits of low-fee passive index investing, but can there be too much of a good thing?

There really is no competition between ETFs and mutual funds, the majority of advisors expect Trump-driven volatility and E*Trade adds more index funds to its platform.

Active management doesn’t always underperform. Just ask Bill Miller.

Things are heating up for an industry where big-ticket mergers are rare.

“Active is dying from its own disease, it’s dying from its own greed,” said Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s chief investment officer.

Positive flows into emerging-market funds continues, buoyed by India and Russia.

Although Europe equity funds recorded modest gains, fears that fresh turmoil in the Eurozone is one election or debt negotiation away stopped investors from chasing recent market gains.

U.S. and emerging-market fixed-income funds continued to pull in new money over the past week, in spite of fears U.S. Fed will raise rates sooner than expected. Informa Macro Strategist David Ader predicts a March rate hike is off the table.