Investors pulled $11.6 billion from mutual funds, the second largest weekly outflow this year, while pouring $14.6 billion into ETFs, according to Goldman Sachs.

Almost $1.4 billion fled three popular debt ETFs in the middle of the week.

Ford, who served in the House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007, was hired by Morgan Stanley as a senior client relationship manager in 2011.

The three titans face different challenges in keeping their reign alive.

Wall Street is divided on the outlook for rates and inflation.

Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are seen to benefit from the changes while Facebook and Google would suffer.

There are no signs of recession in the next six-to-12 months, DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach says.

But only about half of U.S. households are invested in 401(k)s and IRAs.

Founder Jack Bogle isn't crazy about smart-beta and factor-based products, but the firm will offer them anyway.

The billions of dollars backing bets that volatility in the stock market will keep sinking lower is “storing up trouble” for the future, State Street's CIO says.