Fidelity Investments plans to increase its presence in the municipal-bond market, firm executives said in an interview.
Congress today commenced an effort to determine whether legislation needs to be enacted to protect the retirement security of the country's aging population.
E*Trade Financial Corp. has closed its line of four index funds with liquidations to take place no later than March 27.
Eaton Vance Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter profit shrank by more than half.
Navy Federal Asset Management LLC today announced the launch of a new managed account platform in partnership with FundQuest Inc. of Boston.
Columbia Management Group LLC recently changed portfolio managers at 20 teams that manage more than 55 mutual funds.
Managed-futures funds, which finished 2008 as one of the best-performing alternative strategies, hit a bump in January.
A client wants to pay off his mortgage with a retirement account distribution and is wondering about the short- and long-term financial ramifications.
Commercial real estate prices plunged 14.9% on average in December from the same month a year ago.
Fidelity Investments, the world’s biggest mutual fund company, reported today that its operating income dropped 18% last year.
When combing through new investment ideas, advisers would be wise not to ignore mutual funds and separate-account strategies at the bottom of the heap.
OppenheimerFunds Inc. has elected to shutter its OFI Tremont Core Strategies Hedge Fund and start returning the fund's roughly $100 million in assets to clients.
Hard times are on the horizon for insurers as commercial mortgage exposure haunts carriers and capital levels shrink, according to Fitch.
Prices of existing single-family homes tumbled 18.2% on average in the fourth quarter of 2008, marking the biggest year-over-year price decline in 21 years
Janus Capital Group Inc. of Denver saw its ratings drop a notch to junk status today courtesy of Standard & Poor’s of New York.
Blue-chip equities are less attractive than bonds thanks to plunging dividends, according to analysis published today by Bloomberg.
Cohen & Steers Inc. has snagged David Edlin from AllianceBernstein Investments Inc. to be its new national sales manager, the company announced this morning.
The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) exchange traded fund has surpassed $30 billion in assets, making it the second-largest ETF by assets in the world.
The tide has finally turned for prime money market mutual funds.
Mutual fund executives probably won't be dancing in the street over reports of modest inflows into stock mutual funds in January.
