Responding to advisers who complain that the iShares brand means little to their clients, Barclays Global Investors is modifying its marketing.
As more companies begin to offer exchange traded notes, it's beginning to look like the small but growing ETN universe could one day be a competitor to mutual funds and exchange traded funds.
As Roger W. Ferguson Jr. takes the helm of TIAA-CREF today, he assumes control of a company that often frustrates financial advisers.
The era of declining mutual fund expenses is over, and in fact, the cost of investing in a fund may soon be headed back up.
The original thinking behind the development of the SmartGrowth ETF Lipper Optimal Growth Index Fund (LPGAX) was to create a viable alternative to traditional asset allocation models.
Expanding into what some industry observers see as a significant growth area, Sentinel Asset Management Inc. last week launched two funds focused on socially conscious investing.
Service providers to 401(k) plans should not be required to be fiduciaries of the plans, the Department of Labor is being told.
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management also has launched an actively managed fixed-income ETF.
Baillie Gifford Overseas will be added as an adviser to its $6.9 billion Global Equity Fund and the $980 million Growth Equity Fund.
Lord Abbett has lowered the front-end sales charge on three of its short-term, fixed-income mutual funds to 2.25%, from 3.25%.
The average asset-weighted expense ratio for mutual funds in 2007 was 0.90%, remaining flat from the previous year.
Having watched the as-sets under management in the <b>Henderson International Opportunities Fund</b> (HFOAX) double to $3.9 billion over the past year, manager Iain Clark is satisfied that the portfolio was positioned in advance to handle the flood of inflows.
If U.S. mutual funds are going to compete effectively in the international marketplace, a new global fund model needs to be created, according to the fund industry's leading trade group.
SEC commissioner Paul S. Atkins is continuing his campaign for a "new-product czar" to shepherd products through the agency's Byzantine approval process.
Among 18 mutual fund companies studied, the average firm posted an pre-tax profit margin of 33%.
Pimco RealRetirement Funds is meant to help retirees stay ahead of inflation by maximizing their purchasing power.
The Charles Schwab Corp.'s largest bond fund has lost more than 80% of its assets over the past 10 months as investors have fled the mortgage-backed securities in which it invested heavily.
In a break with the previous 10 months, investors poured $3.3 billion more into domestic stock funds in February than they took out.
Vanguard announced several reassignments of portfolio managers in its fixed income and money market funds.
