Top funds operated by Fidelity Investments stopped voting against shareholder resolutions that urge disclosure of corporate political spending for the 2007 proxy season, according to a study by a group that advocates for transparency in political spending.
Rydex Investments of Rockville, Md., is hoping that a glitzy new marketing campaign that includes television commercials will help it overcome the head start its chief rival has taken with regard to inverse and leveraged exchange traded funds.
Although exchange traded funds increasingly provide an inexpensive way for financial advisers to gain access to international markets, analyzing such ETFs is more difficult than analyzing those that stick to domestic securities.
Kensington Investment Group Inc. in Orinda, Calif., makes a strong case for being uniquely suited to manage the first open-end mutual fund focused on the development and reinforcement of a worldwide infrastructure.
With three mutual fund giants well on their way to capturing nearly 40% of all U.S. fund assets, thousands of smaller fund companies are left competing for the rest, and some even contemplate exiting the business.
Fund boards have adopted governance practices that are thought to serve the best interests of shareholders "in advance, or in the absence, of any regulatory mandate to do so," according to a new study from Independent Directors Council.
Money market funds usually are as boring as it gets in the investment business.
Barclays Global Investors has launched eight new iShares international exchange traded funds.
Nearly 51 million U.S. households own mutual funds, representing 44% of all households.
Competition and demand for the best asset managers are fueling a growth in subadvised funds, which are gathering assets faster than those managed internally.
Although Fidelity Investments and Janus Capital Group Inc. recently designated multiple managers for specific portfolios, neither firm is abandoning their individual-portfolio-manager system.
As more products that aim to deliver regular payouts in retirement hit the market, many advisers are taking a wait-and-see approach before recommending them to their clients.
Many mutual fund trustees would like to repeal the Securities and Exchange Commission's 12(b)-1 regulation that allows mutual funds to use fund assets to pay for marketing, a Washington lawyer who represents mutual funds reports.
Board members and fund executives polled are now spending more than 50 hours per quarter managing board responsibilities.
ProShare Advisors launched two short exchange traded funds that are designed to generate inverse performance compared to the markets in China and Japan.
The funds include an international style-consistent growth fund and an asset allocation fund.
Rydex Investments has launched six ExpressShares exchange traded funds on the American Stock Exchange today, bringing the size of its ETF family to 30.
Mutual fund investors will learn the hard way at the end of this year that you can never keep the tax man away for long.
In a move criticized by some industry experts, ProShare Advisors LLC plans to introduce 48 exchange traded funds that use leverage to provide short or magnified exposure to commodities and currencies.
