Mutual Funds

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INVESTING ETFS JUL 09, 2008
Invesco makes foray into Frontier Countries

The new ETF is designed to provide access to certain equity markets in the Middle East and North Africa.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ETFS JUL 02, 2008
New ETFs track oil prices without futures

Investors can bet on the price of oil going up or down or hedge other investments with the securities.

By D Hampton
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 01, 2008
Aberdeen absorbs $2.2B of Nationwide Funds

The company completed the reorganization of $2.2 billion in assets of 26 Nationwide Funds into newly created Aberdeen Funds.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 01, 2008
New mutual fund to ape hedge performance

Hedge fund performance replication has come to the mutual fund industry in the form of the IQ Alpha Hedge Strategy Fund.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 01, 2008
Legg Mason rescues money markets

The Baltimore-based firm will contribute $240 million to bail out three money market funds of one of its subsidiaries.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 30, 2008
Bank holding firms’ income up 27.4%

Bank holding company income from mutual funds and annuities rose more than 27% to $5.92 billion in the first quarter.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ETFS JUN 30, 2008
ETF hypothetical returns criticized

Hypothetical returns utilized by a host of new exchange traded funds are reigniting a debate about the use of back-tested performance data.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUN 30, 2008
Mutual funds face competition from ETFs, VAs and others

The combined total launches last year of exchange traded funds, variable annuities and closed-end funds surpassed open-end mutual fund launches for the first time, according to Boston-based research firm Cerulli Associates Inc.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 30, 2008
Funds eyeing growth look past boxes

Faced with an increasingly global market in which the United States plays a diminished role, asset management companies must rethink how they approach investing.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 27, 2008
Alger to brand Spectra funds

Fred Alger Management Inc. of New York is consolidating all of the open-end mutual funds under the Alger brand.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 27, 2008
LMP Corp. to redeem auction rate preferreds

LMP Corporate Loan Fund Inc., a closed-end fund from Legg Mason Inc., today announced plans to “restructure” the fund’s leverage and add liquidity.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ETFS JUN 25, 2008
Barclays to raise $8.9 billion

Barclays PLC plans to raise $8.9 billion through the issuance of new shares as part of an effort to shore up its balance sheet.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 25, 2008
Fund flows surpass $34B in May

Stock and bond funds had net inflows of $34.6 billion last month, up from $24.7 billion in April, according to FRC.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 23, 2008
Schwab faces adviser discontent

Financial advisers are looking to punish The Charles Schwab Corp. for leaving them in the lurch after its bond funds suffered when investments in mortgage-backed securities went sour.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ETFS JUN 23, 2008
Advisers view ETFs as ingenious invention

As an innovation, ETFs have no peer.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 23, 2008
Hennessy Funds puts focus on distribution

Competing in a crowded, cost-focused market, 20-year-old Hennessy Funds is putting an emphasis on distribution.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 23, 2008
Virtual portfolio boasts solid returns, multiple stars from Morningstar

After more than seven years of tapping into the Internet for the best stock pickers who are willing to run a virtual portfolio, Marketocracy Inc. has produced a top-tier mutual fund that is loosely subadvised by an eclectic group of individuals, most of whom have no connection to Wall Street.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ETFS JUN 23, 2008
Frontier ETFs may expand investors' horizons

A handful of exchange traded funds are looking to give investors access to frontier markets, or countries that are less developed than traditional emerging markets.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 23, 2008
Donor fund inflows track volatile market

Economic uncertainty and market volatility are taking donor-advised funds on a roller coaster ride.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 20, 2008
Mutual funds report $75 billion of inflows

Investors put more than $75 billion into mutual funds in May, as stock, bond and money market funds reported positive inflows.

By Bloomberg