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Where are top fund managers putting their money now?
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 31, 2011
Where are top fund managers putting their money now?

Many see 'gems' overseas, where stock valuations trail economic reality; 'investors just can't believe we're actually recovering'

By John Goff
ETFS JAN 30, 2011
Commodities ETFs can be taxing

Investors in hedge funds and limited partnerships are used to receiving these forms, which reflect an investor's proportionate share of a partnership's taxable income or loss

By Robert N. Gordon
ETFS JAN 30, 2011
Vanguard ETFs rate high

Affluent investors increasingly are turning to exchange-traded funds over mutual funds, and when it comes to their sentiments about the providers of those ETFs, clients rate The Vanguard Group Inc. above all others

By Jessica Toonkel
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 23, 2011
American biggest loser in outflows last year

Offerings from American Funds, Fidelity Investments and The Vanguard Group Inc. had the biggest net outflows last year, according to Morningstar Inc.

By Jessica Toonkel
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 23, 2011
New SEC executive's background could bode well for fund industry

The Securities and Exchange Commission's appointment of Eileen Rominger, an 11-year veteran of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, as its director of investment management marks the first time that the SEC has named an industry executive with no legal background to the position

By Jessica Toonkel
ETFS JAN 21, 2011
Buying U.S. One vaults Russell into active ETFs

By Jessica Toonkel
ETFS JAN 21, 2011
Vanguard yanks filings for new muni bond offerings

In light of the extreme volatility in the municipal bond market, The Vanguard Group Inc. has withdrawn the documents it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch three muni bond index funds and three exchange-traded funds, as first reported on InvestmentNews.com.

By Jessica Toonkel
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 21, 2011
Spotlight on: iShares Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund

Standard & Poor's foresees improving real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2011, and also foresees gains in the broader U.S. stock market following a 14% gain (as measured by the S&P 1500) in 2010.

By Mark Bruno
ETFS JAN 20, 2011
First Trust adding nine international funds to AlphaDex series

First Trust Portfolios LP has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch nine international exchange-traded funds as part of its AlphaDex series.

By Jessica Toonkel
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 16, 2011
Money fund industry wants B-Ds to handle reporting burden

Like other brokerage firms, The Charles Schwab Corp. is known to be self-protective about its discount brokerage customers. And like other firms, it has sued former brokers whom it suspects of violating prohibitions against soliciting clients.

By Jessica Toonkel
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 14, 2011
TCW accuses Gundlach of 'wholesale theft'

Asset manager sues its ex-investment chief again, this time for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets

By Mark Bruno
Money fund industry aims to foist reporting burden onto B-Ds
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 12, 2011
Money fund industry aims to foist reporting burden onto B-Ds

To avoid future panics in money market funds, the mutual fund industry is calling on federal regulators to force broker-dealers to disclose information about their money fund clients.

By Jessica Toonkel
Vanguard offers details about money fund backstop
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 12, 2011
Vanguard offers details about money fund backstop

It's been slow in coming, but the mutual fund industry is finally beginning to offer specifics about the type of backstop it wants to set up for money market funds.

By Bloomberg
Investors clueless about ETFs: Survey
ETFS JAN 12, 2011
Investors clueless about ETFs: Survey

Two out of three say they have little or no knowledge of exchange-traded funds; 'too complicated' for 15%

By Liz Skinner
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 10, 2011
Vanguard fights to stay out in front

F. William McNabb II is nervous. His firm, The Vanguard Group Inc., has been on a run lately

By Jessica Toonkel
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 10, 2011
U.S. seeks info from Janus in insider trading investigation

Fund firm says it received request for general information; FBI widening net in probe of expert networks

By Bloomberg
ETFS JAN 07, 2011
Oppenheimer eyes novel way of getting into actively managed ETF biz

Glavin says firm is mulling possibility of converting mutual funds into exchange-traded funds; won't introduce 'clones'

By Jessica Toonkel
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 07, 2011
Huntington won't waver on fee waivers for money funds

Firm plans to reinstate charges when yields rise; for now, asset manager will 'forgo profitability'

By Jessica Toonkel
ETFS JAN 07, 2011
More firms likely to roll mutual funds into active ETFs

Huntington Asset Advisors Inc. may be the first fund company to convert an existing mutual fund into an actively managed exchange-traded fund, but it won't be the last, some observers predict.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 06, 2011
F. William McNabb III of Vanguard: Canada, ETFs in his sights

F. William McNabb III has had an eventful time since he became president and chief executive of The Vanguard Group Inc. in August 2008

By Jessica Toonkel