A growing demand for commodities in emerging and developing markets requires a new way of analyzing commodity investment strategies, according to Thomas Samuelson, chief investment officer at Advanced Equities Asset Management.
Vanguard Group plans to merge two institutional index funds into other Vanguard offerings with similar objectives, while adding an institutional share class to the surviving funds.
Morningstar Inc. last week launched ratings and research reports for 20 of the largest target date mutual funds — and identified The Vanguard Group Inc. as the best target date provider for investors, based on such criteria as management, fees and performance.
The Arkansas Securities Department announced Tuesday that it fined a broker $50,000 and suspended his license for two weeks after a probe into alleged fraudulent mutual fund sales
As investors slowly dip their toes back into the stock market, mutual fund companies are cautiously hiring again.
Helpful hint for mutual fund portfolio managers: Get some skin in the game if you want to outperform other managers.
Robert Reynolds, president and chief executive of Putnam Investments, is nothing if not an optimist.
Putnam Investments expects to deploy its absolute-return funds within target date retirement funds — a strategy slated for launch this fall.
In the long battle to position themselves as wealth managers, life insurance companies still have to prove to financial advisers that they can do more than sell annuities.
The Labor Department is still considering regulating target date funds, according to Phyllis C. Borzi, assistant secretary of labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration.
If commercial real estate is in such bad shape, why are real estate investment trusts thriving?
Government estimates about how much investors withdraw from their 401(k)s and IRAs are probably way off — maybe by hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a report published late last month by the Investment Company Institute.
The next wave of equity opportunities lie in big, “boring” companies that have been largely overlooked in the current rally, according to hedge fund manager Joel Hirsh.
Exchange-traded commodities funds will continue to prosper despite regulators' concerns that they may have helped fuel the run-up in oil prices last year.
With The Vanguard Group Inc. on its heels, Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC today launched new actively managed exchange-traded funds.
The following is an edited transcript of the round-table discussion. It was moderated by <i>InvestmentNews</i> deputy editor Evan Cooper and reporter David Hoffman.
Now that exchange-traded funds can come to market with relatively little fuss, providers are readying to launch emerging-markets ETFs in what industry observers call an ill-advised attempt to jump on the latest trend.
Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC last week launched its first actively managed exchange-traded fund.
