Publicly traded asset management companies tend to lead market recoveries, but the fast and brutal decline in mutual fund assets makes the firms' ability to front a recovery doubtful.
Neither investors nor their advisers are feeling particularly positive these days, according to research conducted by OppenheimerFunds.
Standard & Poor's of New York today revised upward its fund volatility ratings on 10 U.S. offshore and European fixed-income funds.
A money-market mutual fund that notoriously "broke the buck" has set aside a $3.5 billion reserve to cover litigation costs and damages.
President Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on affluent households, detailed in his budget plan today, could be a boon for tax-managed mutual funds.
While it’s not wise to change your entire mutual fund investment strategy based on recent performance, it may be time to consider some alternatives like ETFs.
Fidelity Investments plans to increase its presence in the municipal-bond market, firm executives said in an interview.
Congress today commenced an effort to determine whether legislation needs to be enacted to protect the retirement security of the country's aging population.
E*Trade Financial Corp. has closed its line of four index funds with liquidations to take place no later than March 27.
Eaton Vance Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter profit shrank by more than half.
Navy Federal Asset Management LLC today announced the launch of a new managed account platform in partnership with FundQuest Inc. of Boston.
Columbia Management Group LLC recently changed portfolio managers at 20 teams that manage more than 55 mutual funds.
Managed-futures funds, which finished 2008 as one of the best-performing alternative strategies, hit a bump in January.
Fidelity Investments, the world’s biggest mutual fund company, reported today that its operating income dropped 18% last year.
When combing through new investment ideas, advisers would be wise not to ignore mutual funds and separate-account strategies at the bottom of the heap.
OppenheimerFunds Inc. has elected to shutter its OFI Tremont Core Strategies Hedge Fund and start returning the fund's roughly $100 million in assets to clients.
Cohen & Steers Inc. has snagged David Edlin from AllianceBernstein Investments Inc. to be its new national sales manager, the company announced this morning.
The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) exchange traded fund has surpassed $30 billion in assets, making it the second-largest ETF by assets in the world.
The tide has finally turned for prime money market mutual funds.
Mutual fund executives probably won't be dancing in the street over reports of modest inflows into stock mutual funds in January.
