They may be gaining in popularity, but exchange traded funds are far from the perfect product.
The proliferation of mutual funds that rely on computers to select stocks is coming to an end.
Even as it labors to gain visibility, Natixis Global Asset Management LP is forging ahead with plans to make acquisitions, particularly of firms that offer alternative investments.
Raymond James & Associates Inc. analyst Paul Puryear downgraded homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. to market perform from outperform today.
Fifth Third Asset Management Inc. is selling off all its municipal bond funds to Federated Investors Inc., according to the website fundaction.com.
Van Eck Associates Corp. today launched the first global-hard-assets exchange traded fund — Market Vectors-RVE Hard Assets Producers (HAP).
Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. posted a loss and a 27% decline in net new-home orders in its fiscal third quarter.
Munder Capital Management Inc. has announced plans to exit the money market mutual fund business.
The Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VII Global will invest at least $1.46 billion in China over the next few years.
Janus Capital Group Inc. today launched Janus Adviser Modular Portfolio Construction Fund (JSMPX), a fund of funds.
Henderson Global Investors, the Hartford, Conn.-based unit of Henderson Global Investors Ltd. of London, has launched the Henderson Industries of the Future Fund.
U.S. construction spending slipped 0.6% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.084 trillion, its lowest July level since 2004.
With new products emerging and a streamlined global regulatory regime on the horizon, the scope and popularity of exchange traded funds is growing.
Despite consistently having generated above-average returns during much of the past six years, industrial real estate investment trusts, especially those with a global reach, are slipping along with the economy.
To capitalize on international investing, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP has launched an international-equity fund despite comparatively stronger U.S. stock market performance.
Maybe this will make fund fees easier to bear. The Davlin Philanthropic Fund, which was launched in July, will donate one-half percentage point of its 1.65% expense ratio to charities picked by its investors.
Many financial advisers consider municipal bonds to be relatively safe investments, but that image took a hit last week when Jefferson County, Ala., moved a step closer to what could be the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history.
With a shot at becoming a $1 trillion market in little more than a decade, carbon trading is poised to take a major step forward in the United States.
The current uncertainty surrounding the equity markets and the overall economy, tied largely to the troubled banking industry, is playing right into the hands of Stephen Goddard, co-portfolio manager of the $80 million <b>AFBA 5 Star Balanced Fund </b>(AFSAX).
