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MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 10, 2009
Neuberger Berman targets brokers, advisers

Executives of Neuberger Berman Group LLC, now running the $155 billion money manager as an independent firm, plan to share some of their institutional-only investment strategies with investment advisers and individuals for the first time.

By Mark Bruno
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 10, 2009
Mutual fund sales, advice tilt toward fee-based model

Sales of mutual funds through brokers and financial advisers continued to shift toward fee-based compensation last year, while the trend toward fee-for-advice distribution accelerated, according to a study released last week by Strategic Insight Mutual Fund Research and Consulting LLC.

By David Hoffman
ALTERNATIVES MAY 10, 2009
Critics question whether endowment model should be used by individual investors

Some industry observers are questioning whether an endowment model of investing — as popularized by the Yale University endowment fund — should be used for individual investors.

By Dan Jamieson
ETFS MAY 10, 2009
ETF giant iShares is going after 401(k) market

Led by the iShares exchange traded fund group, exchange traded funds are poised to break the stranglehold that mutual funds have on 401(k) retirement plans.

By David Hoffman
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 10, 2009
Employees don't understand target funds, survey shows

Employees don't understand target date funds, and that could spell trouble for employers.

By Timothy Inklebarger
RIA NEWS MAY 05, 2009
Mutual fund sales, financial advice tilt toward fee-based compensation model

Sales of mutual funds through brokers and financial advisers continued to shift toward fee-based compensation last year, while the trend toward fee-for-advice distribution accelerated, according to a study released today by Strategic Insight Mutual Fund Research and Consulting LLC.

By David Hoffman
ETFS MAY 05, 2009
Is it time to look at emerging-markets ETFs?

By Tom Lydon
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 04, 2009
SEC ponders new money-market rules

The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering how regulation of money-market mutual funds could be tightened to better protect investors, the head of the agency said today.

By Bloomberg
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 04, 2009
12(b)-1 fee reform still urgent issue, Schapiro says

The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to re-examine the issue of 12(b)-1 fee reform, Chairman Mary Schapiro pledged today at the Mutual Fund Directors Forum Annual Policy Conference in Washington.

By Sara Hansard
ETFS MAY 04, 2009
Grail actively managed ETF begins trading

The Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF (GVT), an actively managed exchange traded fund, began trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. Grail Advisors LLC of San Francisco is the ETF’s manager.

By David Hoffman
Mutual fund company stocks lead market rally
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 03, 2009
Mutual fund company stocks lead market rally

These are difficult times for the mutual fund industry, which makes consideration of publicly traded fund companies as investments particularly nerve-racking.

By Jeff Benjamin
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 03, 2009
Mutual fund industry braces for shift in sales channels

Mutual fund groups groups must adjust to a new, potentially expensive distribution landscape, according to members of a round-table panel of fund executives, financial advisers and industry experts.

By David Hoffman
ETFS MAY 03, 2009
Wall Street's world turned upside down

The day of reckoning has come for the financial services industry.

By Jeff Benjamin 
ETFS MAY 01, 2009
Invesco PowerShares to close 19 small ETFs

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC said today that it plans to close 19 of its current 135 exchange traded funds.

By Bloomberg
MUTUAL FUNDS APR 30, 2009
Mutual fund assets grow despite outflows, ICI says

Mutual fund assets grew by 2.3% in March, according to a report released by the Investment Company Institute.

By Sue Asci
ETFS APR 29, 2009
AdvisorShares selects BNY Mellon unit for custody of planned actively managed ETFs

AdvisorShares Investments LLC appears to have moved a step closer to launching its first actively managed exchange traded fund.

By David Hoffman
MUTUAL FUNDS APR 28, 2009
Fidelity funds land on Lemon List

Four out of the top 10 largest mutual funds on Doug Fabian&#8217;s <a href=http://www.mutualfundlemonlist.com>Lemon List</a> for the first quarter were from Fidelity Investments.

By Sue Asci
MUTUAL FUNDS APR 20, 2009
S&P passive funds trumped active over past five years

Passively managed funds outperformed actively managed funds across all categories during the past five years according to Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s Index Services, which was released today.

By Sue Asci
EQUITIES APR 19, 2009
Spike in financial stocks stirs hopes for big banks

Financial stocks have made a remarkable comeback in the past month, leaving advisers to make a hard call: Are banks regaining their health after the yearlong shellacking that they have endured?

By Sue Asci
MUTUAL FUNDS APR 19, 2009
Class C shares set to go the way of the dodo

The mutual fund industry is poised to do away with Class C mutual fund shares, even though the Securities and Exchange Commission gave them a reprieve by moving to table reforms.

By David Hoffman