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Passive investing’s rise has helped make the benchmark setters the new gatekeepers of capital
If Japan’s largest pension fund wants to lead on stewardship, it needs to pick better battles.
World’s largest asset manager is one of biggest winners from shift to passive investing
Ultra-low charges created an industry that hitched a lucrative free ride on the backs of stock pickers
Focus on giving clients what they want will sort investment industry winners from losers
Investors ploughed $570bn into products, bringing global total to $6.3tn
But index fund behemoth likely to lose its best-seller crown for 2019 to fierce rival BlackRock
The US manager known for low-cost passive funds moves to shake up wealth management sector
Relentless rise of passive investing has transformed the business of managing assets
Delayed reaction to the rise of passive investing leaves it trailing its peers
Prospects look good for US growth as the presidential election looms
Investors ploughed record amount of money into exchange traded funds last year
Calpers is the latest big investor to pull back from stockpickers in favour of passive approach
Ordinary savers have been let down by the industry and regulators
Investment strategies determined by price alone are creating systematic and chronic distortions
How the crisis of 2008 continued to reverberate through the following decade
Fund assets balloon fuelled by low costs versus their actively managed counterparts
ETF pioneer seeks new strategy to halt share loss
Plunging share prices can be alarming, but it is sometimes simply about investors losing faith
From social housing to clean energy, asset managers can invest in solutions to pressing problems
Experts say entry of US fund giant will shake up the UK private pensions market
Potential ‘game changer’ in technology enabling easier index construction
Soc Gen is depressed.
Investors plough $191bn into passive fixed-income vehicles that track the markets
Performance of most traditional active managers during the crisis prompted many investors to seek less volatile strategies
