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.
Fidelity Investments experienced outflows in its long-term mutual funds in October — the first time the fund behemoth has seen net outflows in months.
iShares, a unit of Barclays Global Investors, today launched an emerging-markets exchange-traded fund: the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Eastern Europe Index Fund (ESR).
The stock market's nose dive beginning last fall effectively redefined small-cap stocks, which provided at least a temporary advantage to smaller money managers and individual investors over many of the asset management behemoths.
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.
There is no longer any question that mutual funds have proved their value to more than 90 million Americans who have invested almost $10 trillion in funds for a variety of reasons.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has introduced custom target date funds to its more than 1 million 401(k) participants, following an unusual selection process.
These days, money market funds are investing only the safest securities.
SEC has unanimously approved a proposal that would require mutual funds to use computer tags to label key information about fees, performance and strategies.
New York Life Insurance Co. is looking to acquire one or more fund companies, according to one of its top executives.
Fixed-income investors focused on the direction of interest rates run the risk of making big mistakes, warns portfolio manager John Fox, co-head of fixed income at Gannett Welsh & Kotler LLC.
The following is the text of an email that Bruce Bond, chairman and CEO of Invesco Powershares, sent earlier this week describing his new role:
Milliman Inc. is in discussions with a number of mutual fund companies, insurers and 401(k) plan sponsors to launch a guaranteed-income product that would be backed by a pool of insurers.
New York Life Insurance Co. is looking to acquire one or more fund companies, according to one of the company's top executives.
Assets in the exchange-traded fund industry totaled about $689 billion as of Oct. 30, down 0.8%, or $5.3 billion, from a month earlier, according to a report last week from State Street Global Advisors.
Van Eck Global today launched its second gold exchange-traded fund, <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091111/FREE/911119983>just as the price of gold was surging to a new all-time high.</a>
