PHILADELPHIA — Real estate investment trusts have outperformed the broad market for seven years, so it isn’t surprising that exchange traded fund providers want in on the action.
The practice of borrowing company stock to manipulate the outcome of company votes has piqued the interest of the Securities and Exchange Commission and has rekindled a debate over stock lending.
Baby boomers who are retiring and rolling over their 401(k) money favor mutual fund wrap programs even though many are wealthy enough to qualify for separately managed accounts, industry observers say.
PHILADELPHIA — When it comes to new indexes, those that eschew weightings based on market capitalization are all the rage.
BOSTON — Just because the Enron Corp. and market-timing scandals have led to greater disclosure requirements doesn’t mean that some mutual fund companies aren’t still burying some doozies in their regulatory filings, according to Russel Kinnel, director of mutual fund research for Morningstar Inc.
IXIS Asset Management Distributors LP, which saw its main sales channel dry up in 2000, has stemmed the tide of outflows and now ranks among the nation’s 10 best-selling mutual fund firms.
As the Department of Labor puts pressure on advisers to make 401(k) fees more transparent, some financial advisers are refunding fees to participants that they are being paid from mutual fund companies.
PHILADELPHIA — The successful launch of the closed-end Alpine Total Dynamic Dividend Fund — its initial public offering raised $4.04 billion last month, making it the largest closed-end-fund IPO ever — may signal a resurgence in closed-end funds, industry experts say.
BOSTON — Franklin Resources Inc., the nation’s fourth-largest mutual fund company, boosted its head count by 229 workers last quarter, with more than 90% of that growth coming from India, where it opened a new facility last month.
Thornburg Investment Management Inc. announced today the introduction of the Thornburg International Growth Fund.
