Financial advisers focus only on sales brochures and fund information that is germane to their financial practices; otherwise, marketing efforts fail to attract their attention, even momentarily, according to a soon-to-be released report.
Fidelity's VIP Contrafund Portfolio will be managed by a multi-manager group of seven managers.
Barclays has launched eight exchange-traded notes to track commodities on NYSE Arca today.
The Claymore/Zacks Dividend Rotation ETF will follow the Zacks Dividend Rotation Index from Zacks Investment Research Inc.
Dwindling assets and intense regulatory scrutiny continue to take their toll on mutual fund B shares, which at the current rate of attrition are likely to become nearly extinct inside five years.
It is difficult to evaluate funds and strategies that haven't yet established a track record, but the <b>Aston/Neptune International Fund (ANIIX) </b>comes to market with a certain pedigree and a legitimate strategy for investing outside the United States.
Let's say you paid $7 each back in early 2003 for 1,000 shares of a struggling Cupertino, Calif.-based personal-computer and consumer electronics company that was trading at a fire sale price based on a classic fundamental- valuation metric.
SPA ETFs, an affiliate of London & Capital, today launched its first U.S. equities-focused ETF on the American Stock Exchange.
Financial advisers who are frustrated over perceived shortcomings in mutual-fund- rating systems soon will have a new prism through which to view funds.
In its quest to push for divestment in Sudan, the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition has decided to go underground to fight a major mutual fund company.
State Street Global Advisors today launched three new fixed-income exchange traded funds on the American Stock Exchange.
Hundreds of exchange traded funds may not see the light of day, because seed capital for such funds is drying up.
ETF assets increased by 9.7% in September, as 15 new funds were launched, according to State Street.
More than two years after the launch of the first variable annuity based on exchange traded funds, VA providers and financial advisers are still ap-proaching the product with caution.
PowerShares will expand its family of fixed-income exchange traded funds on Oct. 11.
Investing in the commodities markets without actually buying commodities enables the managers of the <b>RS Global Natural Resources Fund</b> (RSNRX) to look beyond such basics as the fluctuating price of corn.
More than two years after the launch of the first variable annuity based on exchange traded funds, VA providers and financial advisers are still ap-proaching the product with caution.
Financial planners and investment advisers apparently are doing their jobs well — their clients and other individual investors are diversifying their investments as never before.
With the launch of the first-ever life cycle exchange traded funds, TDAX Funds Inc. plans to muscle in on the fast-growing life cycle mutual fund market.
To introduce brokerage customers to its life cycle mutual funds, John Hancock Financial Services Inc. has unveiled a free Internet tool that allows advisers to generate investment plans for clients.
