Natixis Global Associates this week will announce an expansion of its retirement business, including the appointment of Tracey Flaherty, formerly of Bank of America Corp. and Fidelity Investments, to senior vice president of retirement strategy, a new post.
In a bid to increase its market share among retail investors in the United States, DWS Investments has pursued a branding strategy and broadened its product line.
Bear market funds seek positive returns in down markets, so it isn't surprising that they are mauling the competition and generating plenty of investor attention in the process.
There aren't many mutual funds that give investors access to managed futures, but the dearth of options isn't stopping some financial advisers from considering them.
First American Funds Inc. of Minneapolis is hoping to leverage the growing popularity of infrastructure investing by opening its seven-month-old previously institutional-class mutual fund to retail-class investors.
The 10 international-sector SPDR ETFs are use as benchmarks a series of the S&P World ex-U.S. broad market indexes.
Mr. Weisbrod, president of Weisbrod Financial Services Inc. and Staar Financial Advisors Inc. of Pittsburgh, is launching sfamoney .com next month as part of an effort to provide advisers and retail investors with model ETF portfolios, commentaries and various other planning tools.
Stung by media and union criticism that their proxy votes are in the pockets of corporate management, the mutual fund industry is fighting back.
The funds employ long-term capital growth strategies by investing primarily in equity securities of U.S. issuers.
The GCC Titans 40 Index measures the performance of 40 stocks traded in five of the Gulf Cooperation Council nations.
They are the ultimate go-anywhere funds — global funds that can invest virtually anywhere, regardless of geography — and they are growing in number.
The Loomis Sayles Small Cap Value Fund was launched May 13, 1991, and has $1 billion in assets under management.
Mutual funds voted in favor of management proposals more than 90% of the time in 2007, an ICI study found.
The new ETF is designed to provide access to certain equity markets in the Middle East and North Africa.
Investors can bet on the price of oil going up or down or hedge other investments with the securities.
The company completed the reorganization of $2.2 billion in assets of 26 Nationwide Funds into newly created Aberdeen Funds.
Hedge fund performance replication has come to the mutual fund industry in the form of the IQ Alpha Hedge Strategy Fund.
The Baltimore-based firm will contribute $240 million to bail out three money market funds of one of its subsidiaries.
Bank holding company income from mutual funds and annuities rose more than 27% to $5.92 billion in the first quarter.
