Conventional wisdom says index funds are all the same—passive investment vehicles that track benchmarks, right? Wrong! Index funds have proliferated, and retirement plan advisers must now do more than ...

Some of the major arguments supporting the use of index fund managers over active managers are not as robust as they would seem on the surface, according to an investment analyst with a major ...

Pittsburgh Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund hired Xponance as its S&P 500 index manager, running about $195 million. The $1 billion pension fund's board approved the hiring at its Sept. 7 ...

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 ...

FEW LEVERS of economic power are as mighty as the ability to determine which firms, industries and individuals have access to capital. Authoritarians wield control of banks to tighten their political ...

Worldwide index assets managed in ETFs and exchange-traded notes totaled $7.58 trillion as of June 30, up 17.2% from a year earlier, according to Pensions & Investments' annual survey of index ...