Even as the financial services industry scurries to provide advisers with better retirement income vehicles, advisers continue to criticize the new products.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. of New York is cutting its four retail divisions down to two, creating a South/West division and a Northeast/Central division.
Educating financial advisers about leveraged-index funds is one goal that Dan O'Neill embraced when he took over last month as Direxion Funds' chief executive.
Mutual funds that offer managed payouts designed to give investors a steady stream of income have caught the attention of Andrew J. "Buddy" Donohue, director of the division of investment management at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Providers of exchange traded products are developing investments that give investors the ability to more accurately pinpoint risk.
In a period of market volatility and anxiety, a Santa Monica, Calif., investment firm is preparing to expand.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to issue a proposal by summer that would cap 12(b)-1 fees that investors in Class C mutual fund shares are charged, according to the general counsel of the Investment Company Institute.
Hedge funds — facing forced margin calls and investment redemptions — are selling off wide swaths of their private-equity-type investments in search of cold hard cash.
One William Street Capital was founded by David Scherr, who worked for Lehman for 21 years.
Municipal borrowers plan to pull at least $21 billion of bonds out of auction rate securities by May 1, Bloomberg reports.
The firm is responding to criticism that ratings firms underrate municipal debt relative to corporate bonds.
A cap on fees for Class C mutual fund shares looks like it will make its way into a rule on 12(b)-1 fees.
During last year's fourth quarter, 288 new funds were launched and 154 funds were liquidated, according to HFR.
Lipper Inc., responding in part to investors' increasing appetite for sector, target date and international funds, is revamping its fund classification system.
It soon may become easier for mutual funds to invest in exchange traded funds, but industry experts are divided as to whether funds will rush to invest in a product that is sometimes depicted as a competitor.
The mutual fund industry's push for raising taxes on exchange-traded notes may come back to hurt the industry when it asks Congress to defer taxes on mutual funds, the ranking minority member of a House Ways and Means subcommittee said.
In a bid for higher returns amid a dismal stock market environment, some mutual fund companies are offering investors access to high-risk private-equity investments.
Carlyle group's David Rubenstein looks to help investors that suffered losses.
