Despite fierce competition, mutual fund net sales will grow at 2% annually, hitting $340 billion by 2012, FRC predicted.
The center features a search functionality that allows customers to identify ETFs that meet certain investment criteria.
European assets in ETFs surged 27% to €89 billion ($131.2 billion) in 2007, according to data released by Deutsche Bank.
Putnam Investments is paying the price for calling the bottom in financial stocks too early.
If advisers haven't heard of extensible business reporting language, or XBRL, they soon will.
The SEC is looking at capping the 12(b)-1 marketing and sales charge fees that fund investors pay and is preparing to issue a proposal early this year concerning the approximately $12 billion a year paid in such fees.
One way or another, the fallout from the subprime mortgage meltdown and the broader credit crunch is expected to alter the complexion of the alternative investments industry in the year ahead.
The fund is designed to give investors exposure to investment-grade municipal bonds with a nominal maturity of 17 years or more.
Investing in disadvantaged communities is going mainstream, with a variety of investment vehicles springing up.
The mutual fund industry will let its hair down this year, introducing ever more exotic, hedge-fund-like products that make even greater use of complicated vehicles such as derivatives, according to some industry experts.
A woman's place is in the House and Senate, said the late feminist and congresswoman Bella Abzug. Today, include the marketplace as well.
The basic premise behind the management of the Managers AMG Essex Small/Microcap Growth Fund (MBRSX) is finding good companies that few other analysts have yet to identify as prospects.
The inflows slowed substantially as investors poured more money into exchange traded funds.
Jackson National Life Insurance Co. today added a pair of new portfolios to its retail mutual fund lineup.
Asset levels hit $13 trillion in December, gaining approximately $1.8 trillion from the beginning of the year.
Pacificor has named portfolio manager Andy Mitchell to helm the hedge fund after Michael B. Klein, former CEO, died after his private plane crashed in Panama on Sunday.
The Vanguard Group has launched ETFs on the NYSE Arca today, which seek to track three MSCI Indexes.
Burned in the aftermath of Bear Stearns’ two collapsed hedge funds, Barclays has sued the firm and a pair of its fund managers.
Evergreen Investment Management has launched three new diversity equity mutual funds.
