Fidelity Investments experienced outflows in its long-term mutual funds in October — the first time the fund behemoth has seen net outflows in months.
iShares, a unit of Barclays Global Investors, today launched an emerging-markets exchange-traded fund: the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Eastern Europe Index Fund (ESR).
The stock market's nose dive beginning last fall effectively redefined small-cap stocks, which provided at least a temporary advantage to smaller money managers and individual investors over many of the asset management behemoths.
A growing demand for commodities in emerging and developing markets requires a new way of analyzing commodity investment strategies, according to Thomas Samuelson, chief investment officer at Advanced Equities Asset Management.
There is no longer any question that mutual funds have proved their value to more than 90 million Americans who have invested almost $10 trillion in funds for a variety of reasons.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has introduced custom target date funds to its more than 1 million 401(k) participants, following an unusual selection process.
These days, money market funds are investing only the safest securities.
SEC has unanimously approved a proposal that would require mutual funds to use computer tags to label key information about fees, performance and strategies.
New York Life Insurance Co. is looking to acquire one or more fund companies, according to one of its top executives.
Fixed-income investors focused on the direction of interest rates run the risk of making big mistakes, warns portfolio manager John Fox, co-head of fixed income at Gannett Welsh & Kotler LLC.
The following is the text of an email that Bruce Bond, chairman and CEO of Invesco Powershares, sent earlier this week describing his new role:
Milliman Inc. is in discussions with a number of mutual fund companies, insurers and 401(k) plan sponsors to launch a guaranteed-income product that would be backed by a pool of insurers.
New York Life Insurance Co. is looking to acquire one or more fund companies, according to one of the company's top executives.
Assets in the exchange-traded fund industry totaled about $689 billion as of Oct. 30, down 0.8%, or $5.3 billion, from a month earlier, according to a report last week from State Street Global Advisors.
Van Eck Global today launched its second gold exchange-traded fund, <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091111/FREE/911119983>just as the price of gold was surging to a new all-time high.</a>
Exchange-traded-fund providers in the coming year will have to focus on making sure financial advisers understand their products — and how to use them in client portfolios — as they anticipate increased scrutiny from regulators and the media, according to participants at an ETF round table last week at <i>InvestmentNews'</i> New York offices.
John Hancock Funds LLC is looking to double the size of the sales team that targets registered investment advisers to 12, according to Keith Hartstein, the company's president and chief executive.
Investors should be careful not to let the “sticker shock” of the latest unemployment data derail them from their long-term investment strategies, according to Uri Landesman, head of global growth at ING Investment Management Americas.
Investors should take a cautious approach to the equity markets at this point in the stock market rally, according to Tim Knepp, chief investment officer of Genworth Financial Asset Management.
