The quick thumbnail description of asset managers is that on the one hand you have the star portfolio managers who pick the right stocks at the right time—and on the other hand you have index managers ...

Worldwide index assets under management rose 16.2% during the year ended June 30 as Vanguard Group edged out BlackRock to claim the title of world's largest manager of internally managed index assets.

The sell-off has hit everyone, including index managers, which saw a significant decline in assets under management. Worldwide indexed assets under management declined 12.7% to approximately $18.23 ...

Direct indexing has surged in popularity recently. Cerulli Associates projects that growth in the space will outpace that of mutual funds, ETFs and other types of separately managed accounts over the ...

Whether to use active or passive (index) management is an important decision for most investors. Various protagonists have argued the merits of one over the other for decades. Unfortunately, there is ...

The sense of optimism that permeated the first week of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow took a sobering turn this week as overall commitments appeared to fall short of the goal of limiting ...

More and more planners chasing consistent returns are happy to blend indexed and non-indexed products. Why? Because it all comes back to the view that outperformance involves risk and indexing can ...

Index managers are holding steady despite the market downturn, according to a biannual survey of managers of indexed assets by InvestmentNews' sister publication Pensions & Investments. Total ...

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The latest S&P Global Investment Manager Index data revealed that risk sentiment rests at a survey record low in May. Near-term expected returns also sit at its lowest since result collection began in ...

Senate Republicans recently introduced the Investor Democracy Is Expected Act, also styled the Index Act, which would require passive investment-fund managers that own more than 1% of a public company ...