High-yield bonds have given stocks a run for investors' money this year, and a tepid U.S. economic recovery could keep institutional money flowing to that corner of the credit market, according to some market watchers.
It has gotten easier for corporations to issue bonds, but it is still mighty expensive for companies with outstanding debt that don't have a great credit rating.
William Fries will step down as co-manager of the $3.6 billion Thornburg Value Fund (TVAFX), on Jan. 1, according to a statement released today by Thornburg Investment Management Inc.
Law enforcement uses behavioral profiling to identify terrorists, and now mutual fund companies are starting to apply the methodology to financial advisers to target sales and marketing efforts more effectively.
Nearly two years after her ouster from Morgan Stanley, Zoe Cruz, the firm's former co-president, is now plotting to launch her own alternative investment shop.
Total money market mutual fund assets rose by $16.72 billion to $3.446 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
Mutual-fund manager Franklin Resources Inc. said Thursday it ended September with 3 percent more assets under management than at the same time a year earlier.
Exchange-traded-fund assets reached an all-time high of $695 billion at the end of last month, according to data released today by State Street Global Advisors.
Hedge funds produced positive returns for the seventh consecutive month in September, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index gaining 3.02% for the month, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
Larger financial institutions shedding their asset management business accounted for the bulk of mergers-and-acquisitions activities in the third quarter, a trend that will continue in the months ahead, according to a report today from the financial-institutions group of Jefferies & Co. Inc.
A study by university researchers suggests the adage about horses not drinking even if you lead them to water is also true of mutual fund investors.
Balances in health investment accounts leapt by more than 20% quarter-over-quarter during the second quarter of 2009, according to data from Canopy Financial Inc.
Regulators and representatives of the insurance industry appeared before Congress today to discuss a new draft of the Federal Insurance Office Act of 2009.
Grail Advisors LLC filed to offer two actively managed exchange traded funds: the Grail McDonnell Intermediate Municipal Bond ETF and the Grail McDonnell Core Taxable Bond ETF.
The number of mutual fund firms sending out summary prospectuses is trending upward, as providers gear up for a new rule that will require more disclosures next year, according to data released today by NewRiver Inc.
Barclays Global Investors has launched the iShares Charitable Giving Program, which offers clients access to donor-advised funds using pools of its exchange-traded funds.
Many American households would be in financial distress if confronted with the loss of a breadwinner, according to a recent survey from New York Life Insurance Co.
The Achilles heel of hedge funds — tax inefficiency — could soon send investors limping toward other options.
