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INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 15, 2009
Mutual funds, ETFs attract $55B in May

Mutual fund and ETF investors invested more than $55 billion in stock and bond funds last month, marking the second straight month of $50 billion plus in net inflows to long-term funds,

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 14, 2009
Rydex SGI aims to refocus on asset management

Rydex Investments, now Rydex SGI, is repositioning itself to focus on an expanded set of asset management capabilities.

INVESTING ETFS JUN 09, 2009
Grail to launch actively managed ETFs in September

The ETFs are the RP Growth ETF, RP Focused Large Cap Growth ETF, RP Technology ETF, and RP Financials ETF. They are expected to carry a 0.89% expense ratio, and begin trading on Sept. 1.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 07, 2009
Junk bond funds' run is expected to hit wall soon

The stellar returns that junk bond funds are generating are unsustainable and will come to an end, fund managers and financial advisers agree, but they disagree on when that will be.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 07, 2009
Rolling returns gather no moss, some fund managers contend

Mutual fund managers weary of trying to spin negative trailing returns are suggesting that investors look at rolling returns, but those are often difficult to obtain and can be misleading, some say.

INVESTING ETFS JUN 02, 2009
Pimco unveils first ETF; files to offer six more such funds

Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC today launched its first exchange traded fund and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer six more.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 31, 2009
Russell indexes to get a face-lift this month

Thanks to unprecedented market volatility, widely followed style indexes published by Russell Investments are expected to look substantially different at the end of the month when the firm's stock indexes are re-balanced.

INVESTING ETFS MAY 31, 2009
Active ETFs need time to catch on, some say

Actively managed exchange traded funds are finally starting to trickle into the market.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 31, 2009
Mutual fund managers to advisers: Don't abandon underperforming funds

Fund managers, urging financial advisers not to pull client assets out of underperforming funds, painted 2008 as an anomaly at the Morningstar Investment Conference 2009 in Chicago last week.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH MAY 24, 2009
Tech funds' performance breeds confidence in market

Mutual funds that invest in technology stocks are producing great returns — a sign that the market in general is improving, some say — and investors are starting to respond.