Mutual Funds

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INVESTING RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 17, 2010
Labor Dept. inches closer to providing target date guidance

The Employee Benefits Security Administration is planning to publish a compliance checklist for target date fund selection this spring

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAY 16, 2010
Wells Fargo, Nationwide, Wilshire seek to expand asset class offerings

Fund firms also trying to help investors manage their emotional response to the current volatility.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 16, 2010
First-ever mutual funds for MLPs hit market

SteelPath Fund Advisors last week launched three mutual funds that invest in master limited partnerships, the first of their kind allowing retail investors to gain access to the MLP universe

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 13, 2010
Tax-loss overhangs allow investors to benefit from 2008 downturn

Embedded capital losses, which represent a combination of realized and unrealized losses, offer a rare opportunity for mutual fund investors in taxable accounts.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 12, 2010
First-ever retail MLP funds hit market

SteelPath Fund Advisors today launched three mutual funds that invest in master limited partnerships, the first of their kind allowing retail investors to gain access to the MLP universe.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 10, 2010
New Janus CEO to focus on mutual fund inflows, says firm's chairman

Mutual fund company tabs former COO at Pimco as its next chief executive.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 07, 2010
Fund managers facing higher taxes

Top congressional Democrats reached an agreement to increase taxes on managers of buyout firms and other investment funds as part of a jobs bill they plan to put to a vote tomorrow in the U.S. House, lawmakers said.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAY 05, 2010
AQR to offer mutual funds only through advisers

Retail investors will no longer be able to buy mutual funds from AQR Capital Management without going through a financial adviser, starting Oct. 30.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 04, 2010
OppenheimerFunds ex-boss Macaskill named CEO at First Eagle

Bridget A. Macaskill, president and COO of First Eagle Investment Management, was also named CEO.

That an ETF is commission-free doesn't make it cheaper, advisers say
INVESTING ETFS MAY 04, 2010
That an ETF is commission-free doesn't make it cheaper, advisers say

Commission-free ETFs are good, but they may not be best.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 03, 2010
ICI extends reach with global launch

London calling: Fund advocacy group sets up international body in the U.K.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 29, 2010
Pimco's El-Erian: Second half of '10 is more important

Mohamed El-Erian says that today's nonfarm payrolls report demonstrates a “tug of war” between cyclical and structural factors. His take? The second half of 2010 will be more important that the first

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 29, 2010
Amid bank carnage, vultures are a good bet, says Burnham's Schutz

Banks with strong balance sheets are flying lazy circles over weaker rivals. And with 700 banks on the FDIC's worry list, there's plenty of stragglers to go after

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 27, 2010
SEC's civil suit against Goldman Sachs hits funds

Count mutual funds and their investors among the big losers in the legal battle between the SEC and The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s broker-dealer unit.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 27, 2010
Lock 'n' load: Taking target funds tactical

A handful of big fund companies are revamping their target date offerings in hopes of limiting risk — and preventing another major blowup.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 25, 2010
Target date fund manager debate continues

If combatants in the debate over target date fund investment approaches thought that Morningstar Inc. could provide a tiebreaker, they were out of luck.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 25, 2010
Tax man cometh after mutual fund investors

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 25, 2010
Tax man cometh after mutual fund investors

Higher federal taxes, coupled with a rising stock market, threaten to hit U.S. fund shareholders particularly hard.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 21, 2010
Mutual funds: 10 questions to test your IQ

Mutual funds are a cornerstone of retirement planning. Yet they're widely misunderstood.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES APR 20, 2010
Thesis 'democratizing hedge funds' with new alternative offering

Stephen Roseman has introduced the Thesis Flexible Fund, which aims to providers investors and advisers that want a hedge-fund-like investment but also the liquidity of a mutual fund