RS Investments today announced an agreement to acquire certain assets of Oak Value Capital Management Inc., which is the adviser to the Oak Value Fund. The portfolio managers of the Oak Value Fund will also be joing RS Investments.
Despite its decidedly mass-market focus, The Mutual Fund Store maintains that client relationships are priority No. 1.
Invesco will reorganize — and reduce — its combined sales force when it takes over Van Kampen Funds Inc., the $119 billion retail money management unit it acquired last October from Morgan Stanley for $1.5 billion.
Invesco Ltd. is changing the name of its Invesco Aim unit to Invesco, and its AIM Funds to Invesco Funds, according to an executive at the investment firm.
The volatility that has crept into the stock market over the past few weeks could turn out to be a selling point for The Collar Fund Ticker:(COLLX), managed by Thomas Schwab.
Invesco Ltd. anticipates having a total of 130 mutual funds after it completes the integration of the Van Kampen Funds with its Invesco AIM funds in 2011.
To pry shellshocked investors out of their cash positions, several big fund companies are nudging investors into the next least-conservative position: short-term-bond funds.
Legg Mason Inc. yesterday filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking permission to offer actively managed exchange-traded funds.
Pax, based in Portsmouth, N.H., plans to list three ETFs on NYSE Arca, a division of New York-based NYSE Euronext, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week.
It is difficult to function as a value investor unless the value analyst has a firm grasp of economic reality. It is equally difficult to promulgate intelligent financial regulations unless the sponsors of the regulation have a firm grasp of economic reality.
Firm teams with Western Asset Management to launch actively managed fixed-income fund
Investment research firm Morningstar Inc. on Monday said its French subsidiary reached a deal to buy Seeds Group, which provides investment consulting services, for an undisclosed amount.
Recently released federal guidance regarding target date funds was just the first step in a process that eventually will include regulations for the investments
The Employee Benefits Security Administration is planning to publish a compliance checklist for target date fund selection this spring
Fund firms also trying to help investors manage their emotional response to the current volatility.
SteelPath Fund Advisors last week launched three mutual funds that invest in master limited partnerships, the first of their kind allowing retail investors to gain access to the MLP universe
Embedded capital losses, which represent a combination of realized and unrealized losses, offer a rare opportunity for mutual fund investors in taxable accounts.
SteelPath Fund Advisors today launched three mutual funds that invest in master limited partnerships, the first of their kind allowing retail investors to gain access to the MLP universe.
Mutual fund company tabs former COO at Pimco as its next chief executive.
