Despite a sinking stock market, investment research firm Morningstar Inc. is mapping plans to increase its product lineup in 2008.
Industry observers are cheering the news that the hugely popular American Funds group stood up to regulators — and won.
Financial advisers are glad to see that competition is heating up in the nascent exchange traded note market.
A growing desire among investors to align their portfolios with their personal and political beliefs is transforming the financial services landscape and creating opportunities and challenges for financial advisers.
The recent push by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. to return money to harmed mutual fund investors was part of what should be a never-ending effort by the financial services industry to find ways to maintain consumer faith in the marketplace.
Investors have gotten used to associating the Asian equity markets with growth, but dividends are often an overlooked and potentially rewarding opportunity.
The big hit clean-energy stocks have taken this year is just an expected correction, not the end of a fad, green-investing advocates say.
Blackstone Group today announced fourth-quarter losses of $170 million, compared with a profit of $1.18 billion one year earlier.
the Bear Stearns Current Yield Fund (YYY) will begin trading on the American Stock Exchange on March 18.
Investors will be the ultimate winners if a Securities and Ex-change Commission proposal to permit exchange traded funds to operate without having to obtain individual exemptive orders becomes a reality.
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced 1.4% in February but remains down 1.2% for the first two months of the year.
Turmoil in the bond market was a factor in the formation of the Regional Bond Dealers Association, based in Alexandria, Va.
Ambac will seek to raise capital through a $1 billion common stock offering, plus a $500 million public offering of equity units.
Hedge fund assets grew by only 10% in the second half of the year, marking the smallest half-year increase since 2002.
The bond insurer has decided against splitting into two entities, as it prepares to receive up to $3 billion in cash.
ETFs could start up more easily and mutual funds could make larger investments in them under the proposal.
The suits were filed in U.S District Court in Manhattan by the $58 million VCG Special Opportunities Master Fund.
"I would say, by any common-sense definition, we are in a recession," said Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
Dodge & Cox's intention to launch a global-stock fund in April or May has observers trying to read the tea leaves.
