Pacific Investment Management Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch the Treasury Money Market and Government Money Market funds.
GE Asset Management Inc. of Stamford, Conn., today agreed to add the GE Investments Total Return Fund to Pacific Life Insurance Co.’s variable annuity platform.
The housing market continued its downward spiral in December, with new-home construction plummeting to a record low, according to data released today by the Department of Commerce.
The Denver-based company’s earnings fell to $7.8 million, or 5 cents a share, from $51.6 million, or 30 cents a share, a year earlier.
Forward Management LLC of San Francisco, adviser to the Accessor Funds, announced today the launch of a mutual fund that gives investors access to “frontier” equity markets which are smaller, less liquid and less developed.
Shares of AFLAC Inc., a Columbus, Ga.-based health insurer, plunged after a research note from Morgan Stanley aired concerns about the company’s capital levels.
The default rate for issuers of U.S. corporate junk bonds — bonds that Standard & Poor’s rates BB+ and below — is expected to “catapult” to an all-time high of 13.9% by December, S&P said in a report today.
AllianceBernstein LP reported a 73% fourth-quarter-profit decline, while CIT Group Inc. and Fifth Third Bancorp posted fourth-quarter losses stemming from bad loans.
A Luxembourg investment partnership has agreed to purchase two private-equity funds from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy estate.
Fund managers are becoming increasingly optimistic about improving economic growth and the prospects of inflation, but they remain cautious over U.S. equities and emerging Chinese markets, according to Merrill Lynch’s January global fund managers survey.
