Advisers must regularly monitor investments, even apparently safe mutual funds, to make sure they are not taking on increased risk.
Some muni funds, such as Oppenheimer, are over-exposed to the risky bonds.
Most economists agree that inflation is unusually low, and probably will stay that way for some time to come.
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Many advisers are putting investors into low-cost ETFs and simply dumping most of their clients' actively managed funds.
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The inflow was the most since January 2013, thanks to the market's extreme volatility during 2016's start.
Best place to hide if rates go negative is government bonds.
The mutual fund industry offers about 8,000 mutual funds, spread among about 24,000 share classes, but some fund companies offer many, many more share classes. Experts say it may be a marketing tool for fund firms.
Low fund fees and big fund complexes equal outperformance.
Legg Mason investor survey shows tremendous pressure on stock performance, a need for safer income-generating investments.
Robo-advisers might have more reasons to be worried about the next bear market than investors do.
Even though stock funds scored big gains in March, they're still trailing bonds for 2016.
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Fidelity Investments, the second-largest U.S. mutual fund company, will test an automated-investment service starting Wednesday on a small group of existing customers.
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