Last week's market sell-off has investment strategists and financial advisers hunkering down in anticipation of continued market volatility, but they aren't ready to say that it marks the beginning of a double-dip recession.
Charles Schwab Corp. said it agreed to pay an additional $35 million to settle claims that the online brokerage misled investors who owned its Schwab YieldPlus Fund.
Investors praying for divine inspiration may have gotten their wish today when three faith-based exchange-traded funds made their debut.
Two real estate investment trust companies will waive their “internalization fees,” potentially sparking a trend in the REIT marketplace that would bode well for investors.
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Patrick Galley, manager of the $350 million RiverNorth Core Opportunity Fund Ticker:(RNCOX) sees opportunities in select closed-end funds, particularly as investors in general sit too cautiously on the sidelines.
Apollo Global Management LLC founder Leon Black and others are touting private equity's consistent outsized returns, but some insiders — including investors — aren't so sure.
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Thomas Hoenig said the U.S. economic recovery has the momentum to sustain itself and called for an increase in the target federal funds rate to 1 percent by the end of the summer.
RS Investments today announced an agreement to acquire certain assets of Oak Value Capital Management Inc., which is the adviser to the Oak Value Fund. The portfolio managers of the Oak Value Fund will also be joing RS Investments.
Despite its decidedly mass-market focus, The Mutual Fund Store maintains that client relationships are priority No. 1.
Invesco will reorganize — and reduce — its combined sales force when it takes over Van Kampen Funds Inc., the $119 billion retail money management unit it acquired last October from Morgan Stanley for $1.5 billion.
Invesco Ltd. is changing the name of its Invesco Aim unit to Invesco, and its AIM Funds to Invesco Funds, according to an executive at the investment firm.
The volatility that has crept into the stock market over the past few weeks could turn out to be a selling point for The Collar Fund Ticker:(COLLX), managed by Thomas Schwab.
Invesco Ltd. anticipates having a total of 130 mutual funds after it completes the integration of the Van Kampen Funds with its Invesco AIM funds in 2011.
To pry shellshocked investors out of their cash positions, several big fund companies are nudging investors into the next least-conservative position: short-term-bond funds.
The Charles Schwab Corp. has reversed course and will allow advisers to hold in custody additional alternative investments.
Longer-term Treasurys rose after the government sold $42 billion of two-year notes at the lowest yield on record as concern Europe's debt crisis is spreading boosted the refuge appeal of U.S. securities.
