Barclays Global Investors has launched the iShares Charitable Giving Program, which offers clients access to donor-advised funds using pools of its exchange-traded funds.
The Achilles heel of hedge funds — tax inefficiency — could soon send investors limping toward other options.
Exchange-traded funds that invest in municipal bonds are gaining in popularity, but some industry watchers think that mutual funds are a better option.
Unemployment is expected to remain at elevated rates for the next two years, Boston Federal Reserve Bank president and chief executive Eric Rosengren said at a meeting of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce today.
Exchange-traded funds that invest in municipal bonds are gaining in popularity, but some industry watchers believe that mutual funds are a better option.
Emerging markets could be the next bubble to watch out for, but the doesn't mean the run is over yet, according to John-Paul Smith, chief strategist for Pictet Asset Management Ltd.
Mutual fund companies are under more pressure to lower fund expenses at a time they're being squeezed by distributors for more cash, said speakers at a mutual fund conference today in Boston.
Trading will begin tomorrow on four actively managed exchange-traded funds launched by Grail Advisors LLC.
Virtus Investment Partners Inc. has received shareholder approval to convert two funds of mutual funds using target risk strategies into more aggressive sector rotation funds investing in exchange-traded funds.
Lenders are ramping up efforts to avoid home foreclosures, but a report by bank regulators says more than half of borrowers who get help fall behind again.
CIT Group Inc. shares plunged in premarket trading Wednesday as the commercial lender is reportedly trying to craft an exchange that would cut its debt and offer bondholders an equity stake in the company in a bid to avoid bankruptcy.
An exchange-traded fund launched last week offers investors access to hard-to-reach segments of the municipal-bond market. Another has been proposed.
Atlantic City police are investigating how a hedge fund executive fell to his death from an escalator.
With the S&P 500 up more than 18% since the start of the year and almost 60% from the March 9 market low, it might be easy to make a case for long or even leveraged-long equity exposure.
Institutional investors are examining every aspect of their fund-of-hedge-funds portfolios and the managers in charge of them in the wake of the performance debacle of 2008, liquidity problems and the seismic shock of Bernard L. Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. is investigating whether broker-dealers are meeting their obligations to municipal-bond issuers who seek distribution to retail investors.
Total money market mutual fund assets rose $198 million to $3.483 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
As the third quarter ends, the performance of many mutual funds confirms that investors have regained their taste for risk amid more signs of an economic recovery.
