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.
Van Eck Associates Corp. today launched the first global-hard-assets exchange traded fund — Market Vectors-RVE Hard Assets Producers (HAP).
Munder Capital Management Inc. has announced plans to exit the money market mutual fund business.
Henderson Global Investors, the Hartford, Conn.-based unit of Henderson Global Investors Ltd. of London, has launched the Henderson Industries of the Future Fund.
With new products emerging and a streamlined global regulatory regime on the horizon, the scope and popularity of exchange traded funds is growing.
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.
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).
Advisers are using ETFs in multiple ways, in both the core and satellite allocations, as well as in the active and passive slices of investors’ portfolios.
The SEC accused Donald H. Allen and his companiesof raising around $9.9 million from 350 investors and failing to disclose that no profits had been generated.
Dow Jones Indexes and the Chicago Climate Exchange are for investors seeking exposure to the carbon trading market.
Industry insiders believe that the ETF slowdown is little more than a bump in the road and attributable more to sour markets than exchange traded funds themselves.
The exchange traded fund world got a little more exciting this year with the introduction of the first truly actively managed ETFs.
Portfolio managers who battened down their hatches for credit market squalls, falling U.S. rates and a sagging greenback led the ranks of fixed-income performers for the 12-month period through June 30, according to Morningstar Inc.'s separate-account/commingled-fund database.
The boom in exchange traded funds appears to have come to an end.
In the biggest shakeout thus far, 25 exchange traded funds already have closed this year, indicating that this fast-growing sector of the fund industry may be settling down.
A generous portion of commodities and no exposure to financial services company stocks was the recipe for success among equity managers for the 12-month period ended June 30, according to Morningstar Inc.'s separate-account/commingled-fund database.
The second quarter hasn't been kind to mutual funds that focus on the life insurance sector.
