Brokerage firm advisers are offering investors fewer mutual funds because the compliance burden of putting clients into new funds are too onerous, according to a report by Westwood, Mass.-based Hobson & Co.
Quantitative investment strategies that maintain consistent long and short exposures, commonly known as 130/30s, are hot.
While 401(k) investors' choices of mutual funds vary widely, one element of concern seems to be constant: cost.
Members of the Financial Services Institute Inc. met with members of Congress and their staffs on Capitol Hill Oct. 10, in a push to retain in their current form 12(b)-1 fees, which the advisers say are crucial to their work with smaller clients.
More mutual funds are being developed that offer managed payouts designed to give investors a steady stream of income.
Investors continue to bail as Harry W. Lange celebrates his two-year anniversary as the manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund on Wednesday, although it's clear that the fund's performance is on the mend.
Financial advisers focus only on sales brochures and fund information that is germane to their financial practices; otherwise, marketing efforts fail to attract their attention, even momentarily, according to a soon-to-be released report.
Fidelity's VIP Contrafund Portfolio will be managed by a multi-manager group of seven managers.
Barclays has launched eight exchange-traded notes to track commodities on NYSE Arca today.
The Claymore/Zacks Dividend Rotation ETF will follow the Zacks Dividend Rotation Index from Zacks Investment Research Inc.
Dwindling assets and intense regulatory scrutiny continue to take their toll on mutual fund B shares, which at the current rate of attrition are likely to become nearly extinct inside five years.
It is difficult to evaluate funds and strategies that haven't yet established a track record, but the <b>Aston/Neptune International Fund (ANIIX) </b>comes to market with a certain pedigree and a legitimate strategy for investing outside the United States.
Let's say you paid $7 each back in early 2003 for 1,000 shares of a struggling Cupertino, Calif.-based personal-computer and consumer electronics company that was trading at a fire sale price based on a classic fundamental- valuation metric.
SPA ETFs, an affiliate of London & Capital, today launched its first U.S. equities-focused ETF on the American Stock Exchange.
Financial advisers who are frustrated over perceived shortcomings in mutual-fund- rating systems soon will have a new prism through which to view funds.
In its quest to push for divestment in Sudan, the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition has decided to go underground to fight a major mutual fund company.
State Street Global Advisors today launched three new fixed-income exchange traded funds on the American Stock Exchange.
Hundreds of exchange traded funds may not see the light of day, because seed capital for such funds is drying up.
ETF assets increased by 9.7% in September, as 15 new funds were launched, according to State Street.
More than two years after the launch of the first variable annuity based on exchange traded funds, VA providers and financial advisers are still ap-proaching the product with caution.
