As investors slowly dip their toes back into the stock market, mutual fund companies are cautiously hiring again.
Helpful hint for mutual fund portfolio managers: Get some skin in the game if you want to outperform other managers.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners named its 2010 leaders today, with Jane Cline, West Virginia's insurance commissioner, assuming the presidency.
With Congress advancing its controversial 1,900-page health care reform legislation, Wall Street has pushed health care sector stocks into value territory, according to Tyler Dann, co-manager of the $4.8 billion Aim Charter Fund <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?q=chtrx&INDA=1&crit=&SearchCategory=CHART%3BREG%3BFREE%3BSUB&SearchProfile=1119&x=47&y=9&symbol=&targetURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.investmentnews.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Fsection%3Fcategory%3Dstocklookup&category=ETFLOOKUP&searchType=etf>CHTRX</a>.
Robert Reynolds, president and chief executive of Putnam Investments, is nothing if not an optimist.
Putnam Investments expects to deploy its absolute-return funds within target date retirement funds — a strategy slated for launch this fall.
Treasury prices rose Monday as investors jumped back into the market, seizing on attractive prices following big declines at the end of last week.
The House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday unanimously approved a bill that would create a federal insurance office within the Treasury Department.
The American Council of Life Insurers has elected C. Robert Henrikson, chairman and chief executive of MetLife Inc., as its 2010 chairman.
In the long battle to position themselves as wealth managers, life insurance companies still have to prove to financial advisers that they can do more than sell annuities.
You wouldn't know it from the way most mutual fund companies and insurers are marketing their products today, but retirement income in all its dimensions is going to be the key driver of the financial and investment business for the next two decades at least.
The SEC today charged an unregistered hedge fund with operating a large-scale scheme that it said defrauded hundreds of investors millions of dollars.
The Treasury Department’s decision to increase its bailout package to AIG, doesn’t signal a larger effort to aid companies outside the banking sector.
MBIA Inc. said on Monday that its asset management unit will function as a separate operating company, a move that sent shares of the bond insurer higher in midday trading.
The Labor Department is still considering regulating target date funds, according to Phyllis C. Borzi, assistant secretary of labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration.
The debate over health care reform may be getting even more rancorous, but the Senate still aims to keep a provision that would create a government program for long-term care.
If commercial real estate is in such bad shape, why are real estate investment trusts thriving?
Government estimates about how much investors withdraw from their 401(k)s and IRAs are probably way off — maybe by hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a report published late last month by the Investment Company Institute.
