State Street unit launched the SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Small Cap ETF on the New York-based American Stock Exchange.
Fidelity Investments of Boston today launched a new international equity fund which involves multiple emerging markets.
To preserve their watchdog role and face down calls for change, independent mutual fund board chairmen and lead independent directors are banding together.
A rough start to the year has become a kind of backhanded blessing to the Oppenheimer Small & Mid Cap Value Fund (QVSCX).
The mutual fund industry should consider itself lucky if, as expected, the SEC this summer recommends placing a cap on 12(b)-1 fees some investor now pay annually via "level loads," industry experts said.
Financial Research Corp. has stated that it will no longer make available firm-specific fund flow data to the general public, the media and others who have not paid to receive it.
Bob Luxenberg was trying to decide where to invest several million dollars that he had earned building technology businesses in Silicon Valley when he unearthed his latest venture.
The ETFs will seek to earn current income reflective of money market rates available to U.S. investors in the specified country or region.
Record-setting oil prices are driving investments in Brazil's bustling sugar cane ethanol industry.
Although U.S. investors have poured billions into international stock investments in recent years, most have overlooked international small- and mid-cap stocks.
The market may be drifting, but many of America's 60 million Roman Catholics are sure of the investment path they have chosen: mutual funds guided by Catholic ethical and moral principles.
As fund companies experiment with retirement income solutions, financial advisers and investors are worried about products that are designed to leave participants with a zero balance.
The use of alternative hedge-fund-like strategies within mutual funds was a hot topic of discussion last week at the Investment Company Institute's 50th annual general membership meeting in Washington.
Micro-cap stocks are beaten down to the point where the mutual funds that invest in them are starting to see new opportunities.
Amid concerns about rising energy costs, Firsthand Capital Management Inc. is widening its focus on technology to include alternative energy.
The mutual fund will hold between 100 and 200 securities and track the MSCI EAFE index.
Target date mutual funds, long criticized for being too conservative to meet their goals, are now being taken to task for taking on too much risk.
The mutual fund industry is facing waves of baby boomers who will retire and a volatile market that has scared many investors, but nothing has the potential to affect the industry more than a Securities and Exchange Commission review under way of Rule 12(b)-1.
In a move clearly aimed at luring breakaway brokers, Fidelity Investments is about to take the wraps off a program intended for brokers who are dually registered as investment advisers.
With some 90 million investors and more than 44% of American households owning mutual funds, the fund industry has continued to grow significantly in spite of weathering more than a few storms in the last decade.
