Staff members at the SEC will recommend that 12(b)-1 fees be broken into at least two parts.
Introduced five years ago, the Rydex S&P Equal Weight Exchange Traded Fund opened the gates to investments pegged to indexes that use some measure other than market capitalization to determine company weightings.
The time is drawing near for comments requested by the Department of the Treasury regarding changing the taxation of exchange traded notes and other prepaid forward contracts.
The estimated $2.75 trillion IRA roll-over market is poised for significant growth in assets and is expected to take on more prominence in advisers' practices.
Global mutual funds that invest in domestic and overseas stocks are the flavor of the moment, and several well-respected asset managers intend to launch such funds in the coming weeks.
Like a lot of alternative investment strategies, the $4.3 billion <b>Gateway Fund</b> (GATEX) thrives on the kind of stock market volatility we have experienced lately.
Recent market volatility, and concerns over credit quality and availability, have caused many financial advisers to become more defensive in their portfolio strategies.
A cold front materialized in the first quarter for the once-hot emerging-markets-equity sector as U.S. investors pulled out $1.85 billion from the fund category.
While they trust financial advisers, most wealthy investors are not satisfied with the amount of information they get from their mutual fund companies, according to the results of a new survey.
Domestic-equity funds posted net inflows of $17.5 billion and government funds had nearly $3 billion.
Congressmen question an apparent conflict of interest between holders of auction rate securities and fund companies.
The redemptions would be the first involving tax-free closed-end funds caught in failed auctions.
If investors were expecting the first actively managed exchange traded funds to look anything like their mutual fund counterparts, they are probably disappointed by three ETFs that Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC introduced this month.
While some financial services firms tighten their belts in times of economic uncertainty, others see it as a good time to add sales jobs.
Investors Capital Advisory Services has released a new mutual fund wrap program named FundSelect.
ActivePassive Funds group has launched on several platforms including those of Fidelity, Pershing and TD Ameritrade.
The number of mutual funds voting against climate change resolutions declined from 77.8% in 2004 to 65% in 2007.
Tomorrow is the deadline for filing income taxes, but investors are already thinking about ways to pay less next year — driving more to consider tax-managed mutual funds.
