The 10 international-sector SPDR ETFs are use as benchmarks a series of the S&P World ex-U.S. broad market indexes.
Mr. Weisbrod, president of Weisbrod Financial Services Inc. and Staar Financial Advisors Inc. of Pittsburgh, is launching sfamoney .com next month as part of an effort to provide advisers and retail investors with model ETF portfolios, commentaries and various other planning tools.
Stung by media and union criticism that their proxy votes are in the pockets of corporate management, the mutual fund industry is fighting back.
The funds employ long-term capital growth strategies by investing primarily in equity securities of U.S. issuers.
The GCC Titans 40 Index measures the performance of 40 stocks traded in five of the Gulf Cooperation Council nations.
They are the ultimate go-anywhere funds — global funds that can invest virtually anywhere, regardless of geography — and they are growing in number.
The Loomis Sayles Small Cap Value Fund was launched May 13, 1991, and has $1 billion in assets under management.
Mutual funds voted in favor of management proposals more than 90% of the time in 2007, an ICI study found.
The new ETF is designed to provide access to certain equity markets in the Middle East and North Africa.
Investors can bet on the price of oil going up or down or hedge other investments with the securities.
The company completed the reorganization of $2.2 billion in assets of 26 Nationwide Funds into newly created Aberdeen Funds.
Hedge fund performance replication has come to the mutual fund industry in the form of the IQ Alpha Hedge Strategy Fund.
The Baltimore-based firm will contribute $240 million to bail out three money market funds of one of its subsidiaries.
Bank holding company income from mutual funds and annuities rose more than 27% to $5.92 billion in the first quarter.
Hypothetical returns utilized by a host of new exchange traded funds are reigniting a debate about the use of back-tested performance data.
The combined total launches last year of exchange traded funds, variable annuities and closed-end funds surpassed open-end mutual fund launches for the first time, according to Boston-based research firm Cerulli Associates Inc.
Faced with an increasingly global market in which the United States plays a diminished role, asset management companies must rethink how they approach investing.
Fred Alger Management Inc. of New York is consolidating all of the open-end mutual funds under the Alger brand.
LMP Corporate Loan Fund Inc., a closed-end fund from Legg Mason Inc., today announced plans to “restructure” the fund’s leverage and add liquidity.
