If the bull market in bonds is coming to an end, emerging markets may be one place where fixed-income investors can take refuge.
The three-decade overall bull market in bonds is dead — and though there are opportunities in some corporate and emerging-markets bonds, the easy money has been made.
The Investment Company Institute filed a brief yesterday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to endorse the longtime Gartenberg standard for evaluating claims that a mutual fund's investment advisers have received excessive compensation.
Two major financial services firms — an investment banking company and a an insurer — have revealed their intentions to get into the exchange-traded fund business.
Industry watchers are skeptical of plans by DWS Investments to launch a money market fund that does not seek to maintain a stable share price of $1.
Rydex SGI has taken its alternative investment message to a new medium with the launch of a new website, <a hef=http://www.GetAlts.com>GetAlts.com</a>.
A growing trend toward the use of more outside investment products by trust banks could present a broader distribution opportunity for the mutual fund industry, according to the latest research from Cerulli & Associates Inc.
For the first time, American Funds shareholders will be voting this fall on whether to ask the boards of directors of 16 funds to institute a divestment policy against companies that do business in countries where genocide and crimes against humanity have occurred.
Treasury prices mostly extended their gains yesterday as investors sought the safety of government debt amid a big sell-off in stocks.
Regulators are imposing new restrictions on leveraged exchange-traded funds, volatile investments that can multiply the gains or losses of a market index or benchmark.
The Hartford Mutual Funds today reopened the $185.2 million Hartford MidCap Value Fund (HMVAX) to new investors in an effort to capitalize on new investment opportunities and offset outflows.
Another $30 billion in three-month bills were auctioned at a discount rate of 0.150 percent, down from 0.165 percent last week. That rate was the lowest since 0.135 percent on April 30.
Third Avenue Management LLC of New York today launched a mutual fund that is able to invest in a mix of credits, including bank loans, and high-yield and distressed debt.
Shares of KKR Financial Holdings LLC rose today after Janney Montgomery Scott Securities analysts upgraded the real estate investment trust to "Market Outperform" from "Market Perform," saying the company's management has improved liquidity and it may restore its dividend soon.
Squeezed by rising bank failures and alarmed by its shrinking insurance fund, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has made it easier for private-equity investors to buy failed institutions, but one prominent analyst believes that the move could lead to even more shuttered banks.
New U.S. home sales surged 9.6 percent in July, rising for the fourth straight month and beating expectations as the housing market marches steadily back from its historic downturn.
About 20% of the defined contribution plans administered by The Vanguard Group Inc. had adopted automatic enrollment by the end of last year, up from just 5% three years earlier, according to a recent study by Vanguard.
The idea of regulating the money market mutual funds as if they were banks could be detrimental to the $3.6 trillion industry, observers said today after former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker called for tighter reins on the funds.
Home prices across most of the U.S. have started to rise from the depths of the housing slump, a pivotal trend that will help stabilize the broader economy, according to new figures released today.
Money market mutual funds would benefit from a federal program to guard against the risk of illiquidity in the markets, analysts yesterday at the first Money Fund Symposium in Providence, R.I.
