A growing trend toward the use of more outside investment products by trust banks could present a broader distribution opportunity for the mutual fund industry, according to the latest research from Cerulli & Associates Inc.
Regulators are imposing new restrictions on leveraged exchange-traded funds, volatile investments that can multiply the gains or losses of a market index or benchmark.
The Hartford Mutual Funds today reopened the $185.2 million Hartford MidCap Value Fund (HMVAX) to new investors in an effort to capitalize on new investment opportunities and offset outflows.
Third Avenue Management LLC of New York today launched a mutual fund that is able to invest in a mix of credits, including bank loans, and high-yield and distressed debt.
About 20% of the defined contribution plans administered by The Vanguard Group Inc. had adopted automatic enrollment by the end of last year, up from just 5% three years earlier, according to a recent study by Vanguard.
The idea of regulating the money market mutual funds as if they were banks could be detrimental to the $3.6 trillion industry, observers said today after former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker called for tighter reins on the funds.
Money market mutual funds would benefit from a federal program to guard against the risk of illiquidity in the markets, analysts yesterday at the first Money Fund Symposium in Providence, R.I.
It is not the first exchange traded fund to invest in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, but the TIPS ETF launched today by Pacific Investment Management Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., may quickly become the fan favorite, according to a Morningstar anaylst.
The continued zero interest rate environment may be presenting a bigger challenge to money market mutual fund managers than rule changes <a href= http://tinyurl.com/lom2a4>proposed </a> by the Securities and Exchange Commission, several managers told participants today at the Money Fund Symposium in Providence, R.I.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission inserted themselves into the debate surrounding controversial, non-traditional exchange traded funds last week — a debate that could harm the entire ETF sector, according to some industry insiders.
Fidelity Investments of Boston spent $940,000 — both directly and via third-party firms — during the second quarter to lobby lawmakers in Washington on financial regulatory reform, retirement, taxes and other issues, according to recent filings with the House of Representatives' Office of the Clerk.
Even as ETFs continue to take market share away from mutual funds and gain more popularity with retail investors and advisers, officials for Fidelity Investments are maintaining that the fund giant is unlikely to expand its proprietary exchange traded fund lineup.
Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $12.07 billion to $3.581 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said yesterday.
ProShares Advisors LLC announced today the launch of a third exchange traded fund that lets investors bet on a downturn in long-term U.S. Treasury bonds.
Two law firms are investigating potential claims on behalf of retail investors who purchased leveraged, inverse and leveraged-inverse exchange traded funds and held them in their brokerage accounts for longer than one day.
Most asset management firms have reduced — and will continue to reduce — the amount of money they spend to lure financial advisers to their mutual funds, a study has found.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today got behind the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s effort to alert investors about the potential pitfalls of leveraged, inverse and leveraged-inverse exchange traded funds.
John Jerry Inskeep Jr., co-founder of Columbia Management Co., the first mutual fund firm in Oregon, died Aug. 16.
The Vanguard Group Inc. last week filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer seven bond index exchange traded funds in what some industry experts think will be a direct challenge to iShares, the dominant fixed-income ETF provider.
More banks are expected to fail by the end of the year, but analysts still expect their stocks to continue to gain value.
