Morningstar Inc. has introduced three mutual fund categories to make it easier for investors and financial advisers to do specific searches and more accurate peer comparisons.
Legg Mason Inc. fell as much as 3.6 percent in New York trading after reporting that fund withdrawals more than doubled from the prior quarter.
Riverfront Investment Group, the asset manager founded by former investment gurus from Wachovia Securities, is launching three mutual funds.
Once again, disappointing economic data caused stock markets to sag last week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 1.6% to 11,952, the S&P 500 Index declining 2.2% to 1,271 and the Nasdaq Composite dropping 3.3% to 2,644. Investors also witnessed a rebound in the US dollar, a rally in bonds and a rise in oil prices.
Brokerage executives are slamming the SEC's proposal to allow broker-dealers to set their own sales charges on mutual funds, claiming that it could create problems for both the industry and individual investors.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal last week to revamp 12(b)-1 fees could have a number of unintended consequences that could hurt investors rather than help them, according to some observers.
The number of U.S. stocks in Berkshire's $51 billion stock portfolio slipped to 33 as of March 31, compared with 39 a year earlier and 37 in 2008. Here are some of the notable reductions —and eliminations— Berkshire's portfolio.
Nuveen hopes this type of arrangement is just the first of many as it hopes to subadvise more muni bond ETFs
A prominent Brooklyn rabbi has been convicted in a scheme to extort a Connecticut-based hedge fund into paying millions of dollars to two schools.
Rebecca Parrett, who bilked Pimco and others out of $3 billion, had been on the lam since March 2009. Yesterday, she was arrested in a Mexican resort. Said a U.S. Marshal: 'For somebody who was on the run, it was pretty good.'
A former Bend police captain and his wife who have been under investigation by the FBI and IRS over their real estate dealings in Oregon and Indiana have been indicted on fraud charges.
A federal judge has upheld a $1.47 million arbitration award given last fall to former NBA star Horace Grant for losses he sustained on investments in failed Regions Morgan Keegan Select bond funds.
Traxis Partners LLC's Barton Biggs sold almost all his U.S. technology shares last week.
Legg Mason Inc.'s Bill Miller said the U.S. stock market, which has dropped 12 percent from its April high on concerns Europe's debt crisis may spread, will rise after the region's banks complete stress tests.
U.S. stocks could jump as much as 20 percent, led by technology companies, as the global economy rebounds from Europe's debt crisis, said Barton Biggs.
Morgan Keegan & Co. has been granted an administration hearing on allegations that its brokerage firm cost investors, including retirees, more than $2 billion in losses through fraudulent and reckless business practices.
It's been just over a year since Peter Kraus took over as CEO of AllianceBernstein LP.
Financial advisers to some private-equity funds fear that efforts to reduce systemic risk in the financial markets, a key theme of the massive reform bill signed into law last week, are unfairly targeting them.
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC today launched nine small-cap-sector exchange-traded funds, but that's going to be the last new offerings the firm rolls out for a while.
Janus Capital Group Inc. has introduced a value income fund using managers from both its internal fixed-income team and its Perkins Investment Management LLC subsidiary.
