Recently released federal guidance regarding target date funds was just the first step in a process that eventually will include regulations for the investments
The Employee Benefits Security Administration is planning to publish a compliance checklist for target date fund selection this spring
Fund firms also trying to help investors manage their emotional response to the current volatility.
SteelPath Fund Advisors last week launched three mutual funds that invest in master limited partnerships, the first of their kind allowing retail investors to gain access to the MLP universe
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., the mutual-fund manager started in 1937, said it didn't intend to disrupt markets on May 6 when the plunge in stocks temporarily erased more than $1 trillion of value.
Embedded capital losses, which represent a combination of realized and unrealized losses, offer a rare opportunity for mutual fund investors in taxable accounts.
Low-inflation has investors flocking to U.S. Treasurys, despite sky-high deficits: U.S. the 'least dirty shirt' says Pimco's Gross
SteelPath Fund Advisors today launched three mutual funds that invest in master limited partnerships, the first of their kind allowing retail investors to gain access to the MLP universe.
While investors generally embrace the concept of buy-and-hold investing, they fear missing out on gains that come with other strategies.
Mutual fund company tabs former COO at Pimco as its next chief executive.
The SEC's announcement last week that it is launching an investigation of the municipal bond market is aimed at increasing transparency and weeding out conflicts of interest.
Top congressional Democrats reached an agreement to increase taxes on managers of buyout firms and other investment funds as part of a jobs bill they plan to put to a vote tomorrow in the U.S. House, lawmakers said.
The other day I said I had mapped out a trade if the market dropped to a certain level and this happened yesterday
As the market for taxable munis expands, many advisors and investors are rethinking their approach to municipal bonds.
Before things improve, Pimco's co-chief investment officer sees even ore pain in the near future for Greece
Wall Street banks are seeking exemptions to proposed new financial derivatives rules that could shield more than half the trades that should be subject to disclosure, a federal regulator said Thursday.
Retail investors will no longer be able to buy mutual funds from AQR Capital Management without going through a financial adviser, starting Oct. 30.
Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Mohamed El-Erian and Loomis Sayles & Co.'s Dan Fuss said the European debt crisis may spread across the globe because of investor concern that governments have borrowed too much to revive their economies.
Greece needs to reduce the nation's debt through a restructuring and impose deep spending cuts to exit its fiscal crisis, according to Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross.
At least three people have died in protests today, which have seen some 100,000 people take to the streets of Greece
