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INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS DEC 09, 2009
Fund firms step up hiring

As investors slowly dip their toes back into the stock market, mutual fund companies are cautiously hiring again.

INVESTING ETFS DEC 02, 2009
Pimco, Global X launch ETFs

With The Vanguard Group Inc. on its heels, Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC today launched new actively managed exchange-traded funds.

INVESTING EMERGING MARKETS DEC 02, 2009
ETF sponsors can't resist latest trend

Now that exchange-traded funds can come to market with relatively little fuss, providers are readying to launch emerging-markets ETFs in what industry observers call an ill-advised attempt to jump on the latest trend.

INVESTING ETFS DEC 01, 2009
Pimco joins actively managed ETF biz

Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC last week launched its first actively managed exchange-traded fund.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS DEC 01, 2009
Fidelity funds see monthly outflows

Fidelity Investments experienced outflows in its long-term mutual funds in October — the first time the fund behemoth has seen net outflows in months.

INVESTING EMERGING MARKETS DEC 01, 2009
iShares rolls out new emerging-markets ETF

iShares, a unit of Barclays Global Investors, today launched an emerging-markets exchange-traded fund: the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Eastern Europe Index Fund (ESR).

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES DEC 01, 2009
IPO investors not sold on REITs that buy distressed mortgages

Despite troubling signs that investors aren't sold on new real estate investment trusts that plan to purchase distressed-mortgage assets — in many cases with the help of government financing — mutual fund managers still intend to take a close look at them.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 30, 2009
Fidelity funds see outflows for the first time in six months

Fidelity Investments experienced outflows in its long-term mutual funds in October — the first time the fund behemoth has seen net outflows in months.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 25, 2009
Money funds caught between staying safe and staying around

These days, money market funds are investing only the safest securities.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH NOV 19, 2009
Lord Abbett develops new web tool for advisers

Lord Abbett & Co. LLC has created a new website to provide financial advisers with direct acces to a range of information about the money management company's funds, as welll as broader financial information.