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INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 17, 2011
Performance not only reason for fund loyalty

By Lavonne Kuykendall
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 15, 2011
Morningstar switches to colors for rating system

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 13, 2011
Former fund manager says firm's founder bullied him, called him a 'moron'

Patrick Evershed, a former New Star Asset Management Holdings Inc. fund manager, was bullied by company founder John Duffield, who called him a “criminal” and a “moron,” according to Mr. Evershed's lawyer

By Bloomberg
Bond ETFs stealing the thunder — and inflows — from Gross, Fuss
INVESTING ETFS NOV 10, 2011
Bond ETFs stealing the thunder — and inflows — from Gross, Fuss

Fee fiefdom losing ground to passively managed funds; low yields brings high scrutiny

By John Goff
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 07, 2011
Despite the fright, retirement savers rode out the storm

The following is an edited version of an Oct. 12 speech by Paul Schott Stevens, president and chief executive of the Investment Company Institute, before the Rotary Club of Seattle

By MFXFeeder
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 07, 2011
SEC's floating-NAV proposal slowly sinking

Apparently, the GOP is not so keen on the SEC's plan to let the net asset value of money market funds drift, rather than remain at a constant $1 per share. Fund firms are no doubt happy to hear it.

By Jessica Toonkel
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 07, 2011
Cash management that could crush money markets

Unless a 5-basis-point yield somehow sounds like a good deal, it might be time to start looking beyond the basic money market mutual fund

By MFXFeeder
Vanguard boss: Regulatory changes would kill off money funds
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 07, 2011
Vanguard boss: Regulatory changes would kill off money funds

McNabb opposes excess capital requirements or floating rate NAV; 'will disappear'

By Bloomberg
Morningstar launches forward-looking fund ratings
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 06, 2011
Morningstar launches forward-looking fund ratings

Morningstar Inc. has launched the first of its forward-looking mutual fund ratings for 350 U.S. funds, which it contends will help investors evaluate the fund's future performance.

By Lavonne Kuykendall
INVESTING ETFS NOV 06, 2011
Future of financial transactions tax unclear

Legislation introduced last week that would impose a federal tax on financial transactions may be doomed as a stand-alone bill, but proponents say that it should be included in any broad deficit-reduction proposal

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
INVESTING RIAS NOV 04, 2011
Putnam stocks up on retail-mutual-fund wholesalers

Has hired six new external wholesalers, bringing its roster to 54, and it expects to have 60 by the end of the year.

By Darla Mercado
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 04, 2011
New commander at Magellan after Fidelity dumps Lange

Fidelity Investments has named Jeffrey S. Feingold to run the $17.4 billion Magellan Fund, replacing Harry Lange, who oversaw a two-thirds decline in assets in what was once the largest U.S. mutual fund

By Bloomberg
INVESTING PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 04, 2011
Putnam to kick off NFL season with Patriots partnership

Now that the National Football League's lockout is history, Putnam Investments has teamed up with the New England Patriots in a new marketing arrangement.

By Darla Mercado
INVESTING ETFS NOV 02, 2011
Three reasons the recent rally will continue: iShares

First, and most important, a large part of the late summer sell-off was precipitated by a growing belief that the United States and the global economy were about to enter another recession.

By Russ Koesterich
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS OCT 31, 2011
Bill Gross cops to 'stinker' of a year

Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest mutual fund, is seeking to reassure clients that he hasn't lost his touch after he misjudged the extent of the economic slowdown, causing his Pimco Total Return Fund to trail rivals this year

By Bloomberg
BofA's Moynihan to answer 'skeptics' in Berkowitz conference
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 31, 2011
BofA's Moynihan to answer 'skeptics' in Berkowitz conference

Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management will hold a 90-minute conference call with BofA CEO Brian Moynihan on Aug. 10 during which investors in the Fairholme Fund, which holds 92.6 million shares of the bank, will get to ask about its sagging share price.

By Doug Cubberley
Bernanke: Moody's plan could trigger run on money funds
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS OCT 28, 2011
Bernanke: Moody's plan could trigger run on money funds

Fed head criticizes rater's proposal to reveal which funds might be bailed out during market panics

By John Goff
INVESTING RIAS OCT 20, 2011
Five secrets of the best wholesalers

The top fund hawkers generally take the same approach to winning over advisers

By Evan Cooper
INVESTING ETFS OCT 19, 2011
BlackRock: ETF standards in need of improvement

BlackRock Inc., which controls 42% of the exchange-traded-fund market, is calling on its peers and regulators to raise their standards in terms of transparency and oversight of ETFs

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING ETFS OCT 19, 2011
ETF vehicles will soon be ranked

Morningstar Inc. will begin ranking exchange-traded-fund managed portfolios, the company said last week in Chicago at its ETF Invest Conference

By Jeff Benjamin