There’s a line of argument in the financial press that suggests that active money management is dying, a victim of high fees and underperformance versus low-cost indexing that captures average market returns. Newsflash: This is anything but the case. Active investing still dominates asset management around the world, and less than “18 percent of the global stock market is owned ...

Bloomberg US stocks halted the longest slide since March and the dollar was little changed after hitting a 14-month high as global markets steadied in the wake of Monday’s Turkey-induced turmoil. Crude climbed with gold and Treasuries fell. The S&P 500 Index advanced for the first time in five days amid thin summer trading. Small-cap shares were particularly strong, with ...

Bloomberg Cboe Global Markets Inc. wants to be the first to list a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, though there’s still a lot of work needed to win approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. “As we chip away at their issues to make them less concerned, at some point they’ll be comfortable with an ETF,” Chris Concannon, the Chicago-based exchange ...