Mutual fund expense ratios declined in 2008 for the fourth consecutive year, seeing an average reduction of 0.036% industrywide, according to a report by New York-based research firm Lipper Inc.
Investors poured money into equity mutual funds, including exchange traded funds, in April in a reversal from the previous month, when those funds experienced net outflows, according to a report released yesterday by Financial Research Corp. of Boston.
Sales of previously occupied homes rose modestly from March to April as buyers who were brave enough to dive into the market took advantage of prices that were 15.4 percent below year-ago levels.
U.S. home prices are at levels not seen since the end of 2002, but a closer look at data released Tuesday shows the worst may be over for some metropolitan areas.
European indexes followed Asian markets lower, with trading gaining momentum as Britain and the U.S. come back from a long weekend.
Optimal Investment Services, the Geneva-based hedge fund arm of Banco Santander SA, has reached a settlement with Irving Picard, trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, for $235 million.
Many pension managers are allotting more assets to long-term investment-grade corporate bonds, reported Standish Mellon Asset Management Co. LLC of Boston today.
The pool of money available to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff's massive pyramid scam is getting bigger.
The International Monetary Fund has said Russia's GDP could drop as much as 6% this year — the most pessimistic outlook so far.
Financial advisers who handle retirement plans have noted that plan sponsors are now very much aware of the performance of target date funds. But sponsors don't really understand the reason for the performance, according to 76% of advisers polled by my firm.
Lubos Pastor may upend the world of equity investing. In his recent academic paper “Are stocks really less volatile in the long run?” the professor at the college's Booth School of Business argues that stocks are riskier than generally perceived.
The Obama administration's strategy to ad-dress the economic crisis may be making the problem worse.
Fidelity Investments had the most internally managed active-domestic-equity assets for U.S. institutional tax-exempt assets clients last year.
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.
Financial advisers are at risk of getting caught in a classic “bond bear trap” — reaching for yield in a low-interest-rate environment, then getting hammered when rates ultimately rise.
In what advisers say is a flight to safety and returns, municipal bond funds attracted more than $20 billion in new cash from January through May 13, according to the Washington-based Investment Company Institute.
A bill to defer taxation on dividends that are reinvested in mutual funds has received support from the Investment Company Institute.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor will hold a joint hearing June 18 on the subject of target date funds.
Signaling greater stability in the credit markets, most of the major fund complexes offering Treasury money market mutial funds have discontinued their participation in the federal guarantee program on those funds.
Rates on 30-year mortgages inched downward this week, remaining below 5 percent for the tenth-consecutive week and just above record lows.
