As fund companies experiment with retirement income solutions, financial advisers and investors are worried about products that are designed to leave participants with a zero balance.
The use of alternative hedge-fund-like strategies within mutual funds was a hot topic of discussion last week at the Investment Company Institute's 50th annual general membership meeting in Washington.
Micro-cap stocks are beaten down to the point where the mutual funds that invest in them are starting to see new opportunities.
Amid concerns about rising energy costs, Firsthand Capital Management Inc. is widening its focus on technology to include alternative energy.
The mutual fund will hold between 100 and 200 securities and track the MSCI EAFE index.
Target date mutual funds, long criticized for being too conservative to meet their goals, are now being taken to task for taking on too much risk.
The mutual fund industry is facing waves of baby boomers who will retire and a volatile market that has scared many investors, but nothing has the potential to affect the industry more than a Securities and Exchange Commission review under way of Rule 12(b)-1.
In a move clearly aimed at luring breakaway brokers, Fidelity Investments is about to take the wraps off a program intended for brokers who are dually registered as investment advisers.
With some 90 million investors and more than 44% of American households owning mutual funds, the fund industry has continued to grow significantly in spite of weathering more than a few storms in the last decade.
Staff members at the SEC will recommend that 12(b)-1 fees be broken into at least two parts.
Introduced five years ago, the Rydex S&P Equal Weight Exchange Traded Fund opened the gates to investments pegged to indexes that use some measure other than market capitalization to determine company weightings.
The time is drawing near for comments requested by the Department of the Treasury regarding changing the taxation of exchange traded notes and other prepaid forward contracts.
The estimated $2.75 trillion IRA roll-over market is poised for significant growth in assets and is expected to take on more prominence in advisers' practices.
Global mutual funds that invest in domestic and overseas stocks are the flavor of the moment, and several well-respected asset managers intend to launch such funds in the coming weeks.
Like a lot of alternative investment strategies, the $4.3 billion <b>Gateway Fund</b> (GATEX) thrives on the kind of stock market volatility we have experienced lately.
Recent market volatility, and concerns over credit quality and availability, have caused many financial advisers to become more defensive in their portfolio strategies.
A cold front materialized in the first quarter for the once-hot emerging-markets-equity sector as U.S. investors pulled out $1.85 billion from the fund category.
While they trust financial advisers, most wealthy investors are not satisfied with the amount of information they get from their mutual fund companies, according to the results of a new survey.
Domestic-equity funds posted net inflows of $17.5 billion and government funds had nearly $3 billion.
