Van Eck Global today launched its second gold exchange-traded fund, <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091111/FREE/911119983>just as the price of gold was surging to a new all-time high.</a>
Exchange-traded-fund providers in the coming year will have to focus on making sure financial advisers understand their products — and how to use them in client portfolios — as they anticipate increased scrutiny from regulators and the media, according to participants at an ETF round table last week at <i>InvestmentNews'</i> New York offices.
MSCI Inc. said Monday that it has agreed to buy RiskMetrics Group Inc. for about $1.55 billion in cash and stock in a deal between companies that provide support services to financial companies.
John Hancock Funds LLC is looking to double the size of the sales team that targets registered investment advisers to 12, according to Keith Hartstein, the company's president and chief executive.
Investors should be careful not to let the “sticker shock” of the latest unemployment data derail them from their long-term investment strategies, according to Uri Landesman, head of global growth at ING Investment Management Americas.
Investors should take a cautious approach to the equity markets at this point in the stock market rally, according to Tim Knepp, chief investment officer of Genworth Financial Asset Management.
Company says legal tab in 2009 equaled 12% of revenue; crashed bond funds to blame
Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $3.68 billion to $3.335 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
Lee Scott, former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. CEO and president, has joined the private equity firm Solamere Capital as an operating partner and a member of its investment committee.
The fund managers who invest based on macroeconomic trends — and are willing to adjust their portfolios as those trends change — are the managers most likely to add value for investors, according to a study released today by the New York University Stern School of Business.
Money managers are adding more arrows to their emerging-markets quiver as they anticipate institutional investor demand for such strategies to escalate.
Pension fund executives around the world are putting their faith — and assets — into emerging markets to provide more investment bang for the buck.
Last year's $226 billion worth of net outflows from mutual funds reflects a larger trend in investor behavior, according to a new research report.
Several financial advisers said that they agree with the Supreme Court justices who appeared to suggest during oral arguments last week that the Securities and Exchange Commission, and not the courts, should ultimately decide when mutual fund fees are excessive.
Although CIT Group Inc.'s impending Chapter 11 bankruptcy is unlikely to halt the renewed popularity of financial sector stocks, advisers remain leery of investing in banks and other lenders.
With Congress advancing its controversial 1,900-page health care reform legislation, Wall Street has pushed health care sector stocks into value territory, according to Tyler Dann, co-manager of the $4.8 billion Aim Charter Fund (CHTRX).
