Mutual funds

Buttonwood: Don’t just do something, sit there

Fund managers trade too much. Retail investors can learn not to14

Investing: Rotation schmotation

Investors aren't getting out of bonds - yet14

Sovereign-debt markets: An illusory haven

What lessons should investors learn from the Argentine and Greek restructurings?2

Buttonwood: Off target

A misguided proposal to regulate fund managers’ pay17

Private equity: Adding value?

Private equity managers charge steep fees to clients but produce returns that are slightly lower than a mutual fund that buys small-cap companies using leverage.17

Exchange-traded funds: Twenty years young

The anniversary of a successful financial innovation6

Buttonwood: Big is not always beautiful

Picking an outstanding fund manager8

Buttonwood: Voice in the wilderness

A veteran fund manager identifies the real sources of long-term returns15

Money market mutual funds: The SEC's dereliction of duty

European venture capital: Venturecrats

Government money is propping up the industry2

High-yield corporate bonds: Is the European high-yield bond market a bubble?

European companies are issuing unprecedented amounts of high yield bonds, but will default rates stay low once interest rates rise?1

Bond funds

Finance after the crisis: Vigilante on the move

In the first in a series of profiles of financial institutions after the crisis we look at PIMCO, a giant fund manager10