Selling into a depressed market is not the brightest move ever, but that's what many clients are doing by cashing out their muni bond funds. The better play? Stay patient -- and buy individual bonds
Firm eyes restricting sales of tax-exempt instruments to clients with e-mail addresses; construed as checking up
MSRB looking to boost information available to B-Ds, investors; source of that info still a bottleneck, however
Home bias 'alive and well' nonetheless, says Accuvest's Garff; game plan flawed
Pimco and other investors are boosting holdings of yuan-denominated assets as debt crises worsen in the U.S., Europe and Japan
Janus Capital Group Inc. has issued a statement clarifying that it isn't a target in the current insider trading probe, despite having <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20101124/FREE/101129976>received a subpoena last week as part of the investigation</a>.
More than one-third of financial advisers surveyed are holding off on investing in any funds managed by Wellington Capital Management and Janus Capital Group Inc. until they are cleared of any wrongdoing in a recent insider-trading probe, according to an online survey conducted this week by InvestmentNews.
Mutual funds' ties to so-called expert networks that have been probed as part of an insider trading investigation may undermine efforts by the industry to stem three years of client withdrawals from stock funds.
PFM Group, owner of the largest investment adviser in the U.S. municipal bond market, bought a smaller competitor co-owned by Lois Scott, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's new chief financial officer.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair considers money market mutual funds “destabilizing” to the financial system and thinks investors would be served just as well if share prices floated
Nathan Behan, a senior investment analyst at Prima Capital Holdings, outlines some key recent and long-term trends in the markets in an economic report and analysis on the first quarter
Because past performance is no guarantee — or even an indication — of future results, it would make sense to pick a fund on criteria other than past performance
An SEC rule proposal that would raise the net-worth thresholds at which advisers would be allowed to charge performance-based fees would likely cut into the bottom lines of smaller hedge funds, private-equity firms and some registered investment advisers
The search for new sources of retirement income and exposure to investments that don't correlate with traditional asset classes has brought about new product innovations — many of them sparked by individual investors' wanting to invest like institutions
Boss of Wintergreen, along with First Eagle's McLennnan, stuffing portfolios with overseas holdings; 'amazing opportunity'
Retirees need some equities exposure, but they also must hedge their bets
The Fed Reserve's quantitative easing is finally about to end. S&P analyst Michael Souers says this could be a real a boost for Treasuries with less lengthy maturities. Retirees, take note.
The SEC has hired a former Janus Capital Group Inc. portfolio manager to help oversee the $2.8 trillion money market fund industry, a new position.
For 11 years, John Kinnucan was a stock analyst, digging information out of low-level contacts in the computer industry and selling it to clients.
Survey reveals globalization of portfolios in the works as clients look to expand investment horizons
