Rates on 30-year mortgages plunged this week to the lowest level on record after the Federal Reserve launched a new effort to assist the staggering U.S. housing market.
Fidelity Investments said that it will reopen the Fidelity Diversified International Fund (FDIVX) and the Fidelity Small Cap Stock Fund (FSLCX) to new investors March 30 and launch the Fidelity Global Commodity Stock Fund on March 31.
A sign of the times: Portfolio managers are more bullish about bonds than equities for the first time in years, according to a Russell Investments survey.
New U.S. home sales rebounded unexpectedly last month, but were still the second-worst on record and remained well below last year's levels, according to data released Wednesday.
A government report says U.S. home prices fell 6.3 percent in January from the same month last year.
Hennessy Advisors Inc. today launched two large-cap funds after acquiring the assets of two funds with combined assets of $158 million from Voyageur Asset Management Inc.
Reacting to asset declines from the market downturn, The Vanguard Group Inc. is increasing expense ratios.
Sales of previously occupied homes jumped in February by the largest amount in nearly six years as first-time buyers took advantage of deep discounts on foreclosures and other distressed properties.
The possibility that Barclays' iShares exchange traded fund business could be sold to another big ETF provider, reducing competition by creating an industry behemoth, is worrying advisers.
Janus Capital Group Inc. paid its chief executive $7 million in 2008, including a bonus, which represents a 27.8% pay cut from the previous year, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether hedge funds gave favored employees or investors “preferential redemptions” by allowing them to withdraw money while freezing redemptions for other clients.
U.S. hedge funds are buying stocks for the first time since October, Bloomberg reported today.
The Vanguard Group Inc. is offering what it says is the first of its kind: a fund that offers exposure to small-cap stocks in both emerging and developed markets outside the United States.
A case involving how mutual fund management advisory fees are charged will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this fall and could result in lower fees for shareholders.
A full 20% of the hedging shops that blew up last year were feeder funds for Bernie’s Ponzi scheme that thought they were overseeing $16 billion. They weren’t.
<b>Situation:</b> Under the new tax act, a hefty cash refund is available to so-called “first-time” home buyers.
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it will spend up to $300 billion over the next six months to buy long-term government bonds, a new step aimed at lifting the U.S. out of recession by lowering rates on mortgages and other consumer debt.
The Investment Company Institute is proposing sweeping changes to restore confidence in the $3.9 trillion money market mutual fund industry.
More layoffs are expected at American Funds this year, although the announcement will not be finalized until June.
Investors who are still awaiting payouts from Reserve Management Co. Inc. — the New York-based firm whose $63 billion money market fund "broke the buck" last year — appear to be taking matters into their own hands.
