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William McNabb: What's an appropriate margin? Is it 40% in our business or is it 35% or 25%? I don't know the answer to that. I don't have to worry about it.

Vanguard Group, set to gather $300 billion in 2015, is crushing it on every level but could it succumb to its own success?

The Financial Times points out that too-big-to-fail is coming into play along with growing channel conflict and investors (a big maybe) sated with passivity

June 10, 2015 at 6:28 PM

Shawn Carpenter: The reason we did the capital raise is growth has really accelerated pretty dramatically since mid-last year.

Morningstar throws more money -- and loses one of its own -- at keeping its stake in a Bloomberg-lite venture intact

The bullish Chicago data company leads a fourth round of funding for YCharts and one of its managers left to help the start up

June 2, 2015 at 5:03 PM

Justin Carbonneau: Even though we're active, we always make changes on a Friday and it's a 28-day-cycle and we're changing 10% of the portfolio each month.

Fleet-footed RIAs storm into the active ETF market as fund giants tie pretzel dough

Front-running is real concern for the likes of American Funds or Fidelity Investments but not for little guys with no track records

May 11, 2015 at 7:32 PM

Martha Post: People who had knee-jerk reactions and exited the fund last year out of panic or fear missed out.

PIMCO is 'probably healthier' without Bill Gross and the outflow bloodbath is likely near its end, Morningstar says

Using a management-by-triumvirate approach, the Newport Beach bomber is killing its peers despite floods of outflows and unflinching RIAs are saying their version of 'I told you so'

April 14, 2015 at 7:26 PM

Ben Johnson: The bigger risk is to not participate.

An outflow-plagued American Funds holds its ETF fire until it can resolve the vehicle's front-running exposure, which defies a resolution

Edward Jones and other legacy American customers consider ETFs a niche solution to a main portfolio -- lessening the urgency for change

February 10, 2015 at 9:57 PM

The downtown Hartford headquarters of Virtus Investment Partners

Where Virtus stands after F-Squared seemingly led it astray, to mutual benefit

The Hartford, Conn. firm is raising no alarms with investors but a handful of Virtus ex-employees are expressing confusion about how it all went down

February 9, 2015 at 8:58 PM

Brent Burns: A bond fund is simply a mutual fund that happens to own bonds (or in many cases derivatives) with no obligation to pay back anything.

Why unconstrained bond fund skepticism is justified (think 2008, not 2013) and why RIAs should say: None of the above

Brent Burns counter-dissects the Sanders Wommack vivisection of an article written by experts from LPL and Google

October 17, 2014 at 5:44 PM

Sanders Wommack: I took a close look at underlying data and came to significantly different -- in some instances polar opposite --  conclusions.

Why I respectfully reject the harsh take on unconstrained bond funds expressed by Google and LPL co-authors

An article by LPL's Adam Cohen and Google's Jingwei Lei in IMCA's publication flukily conicided with the revelation of Bill Gross's new job managing just such a fund

October 13, 2014 at 6:46 PM

Richard Weil has now completed the PIMCO trifecta with the Bill Gross hire.

How Janus CEO Richard Weil's Bill Gross hire completes the PIMCO-ization of the Denver equity shop

The Denver-based fund company now has its chairman, CEO and star manager seats filled by PIMCO alums

October 1, 2014 at 6:24 AM

Eric Jacobsen: The fund's bronze Morningstar analyst rating reflects [our] high level of confidence in PIMCO's resources and overall abilities but also the uncertainty as to exactly how all thee parts will mesh in the wake of Gross's departure.
September 30, 2014 at 4:27 AM

Bill Gross: I'll say, repeat after me: Bill Gross is the kindest, bravest, warmest and most wonderful human being you've ever met in your life. Hopefully that will work. [photo credit: Jim Tweedie]

Bill Gross's stage antics leave Morningstar conference-goers gobsmacked

Wearing sunglasses, comparing himself to Justin Bieber and making his desire to bribe journalists known (albeit in jest) baffled observers

June 20, 2014 at 1:26 AM

Joel Bruckenstein: When you're strong you can afford to overpay a little bit.

How Joe Mansueto's purchase of ByAllAccounts is mostly a show of faith in the Morningstar brand, global reach and the future of asset-quarterbacking as a billable service

The Woburn, Mass.-based aggregator has the dubious distinction of being a near-monopolist that can't quite crack the profits puzzle, sources say

April 25, 2014 at 5:28 AM

Fidelity's alt investments brain trust: 'It used to be three guys and a dog in Greenwich.'

Fidelity, Goldman Sachs and Morningstar call 16 top reporters to New York to define the RIA alts problem -- and to explain how their Dream Team solves it

The conundrum: In the dawn of the Age of Transparency, alts makers still favor pulling down the shades, and charging a premium for the disservice

April 8, 2014 at 4:42 AM

Joe Mansueto sees the buy 'particularly bolstering our offerings that support an advisor’s workflow.'

Why Morningstar's purchase of ByAllAccounts might be a bigger deal than its paltry $28-million price tag shows

The Chicago firm becomes the king of charging for held-away assets facilitation and has a view into the data of its competitors

April 2, 2014 at 5:49 AM

Steve Anderson: None of the consultants are utilizing our business model.

Schwab 'fesses up to Wall Street just how hard winning plan sponsors to its 401(k) ETF platform will be

Convincing plan sponsors and pension consultants to join a ETF paradigm shift to ETFs is a big ask, its executives tell Wall Street

February 18, 2014 at 4:11 PM

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