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.
The Vanguard Group has launched ETFs on the NYSE Arca today, which seek to track three MSCI Indexes.
Evergreen Investment Management has launched three new diversity equity mutual funds.
The first U.S.-listed Chinese Real Estate ETF gives investors exposure to the Chinese real restate market.
Due to negative returns, investors are pulling money out of mutual funds that invest in real estate investment trusts, but financial advisers believe that now is not the time to trim holdings.
While mutual funds continue to garner the lion's share of investment assets, their growth is trailing that of exchange traded assets and separately managed accounts.
Brokers and other industry observers are steaming over a new study that shows that investors who buy load funds do far worse than the funds themselves.
Investors eyeing socially conscious funds are no longer looking merely at the social issues; they are also looking for performance — a change that has resulted in new offerings from fund firms in asset classes that have been underrepresented in this market for nearly a decade.
Despite the drop in assets, 26 new ETFs were added to the market last month, brining the total number to 612.
Despite once having been seen as betraying financial advisers, The Vanguard Group Inc. of Malvern, Pa., continues to ratchet up efforts to court them.
As 2008 rolls around, it will bring an important historical marker: The five-year anniversary of the bull market.
Load funds significantly underperform a buy-and-hold strategy with the same funds, says the Zero Alpha Group.
On Dec. 20, the firm will list the PowerShares DJIA BuyWrite and S&P BuyWrite portfolios on NYSE Arca and the Nasdaq-100 BuyWrite Portfolio on Nasdaq.
The ETF seeks to track the total return performance of the Lehman Brothers High Yield Very Liquid Index.
An insurance policy that provides an income guarantee to holders of a unified managed account at Lockwood is in registration at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As the market-timing scandals recede into financial history, the cautionary practices instituted in their wake could face the same fate.
The Investment Company Institute, the powerful mouthpiece of the mutual fund industry, is trying to torpedo the tax advantages of exchange traded notes, and industry insiders think that it has a pretty good chance of being successful.
