Updated Monday, December 9, 2013 as of 11:49 AM ET
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HEADLINES FROM FINANCIAL PLANNING
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Advisor Opportunity? Early Pre-Retirees, Study Says |
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BlackRock’s Fink Says Pensions Should Invest More in Stocks |
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Retirement at Risk for Half of U.S. Households, Even With Market Rebound |
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IRS Finalizes Rules on Additional Medicare Tax |
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Citigroup to BofA Spurn Treasuries for Cash on Taper Risk |
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IRS Launches This Year's EITC Audits |
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The regulatory authority says Atlanta-based J.P. Turner -- which ranked No. 59 on Financial Planning's annual list of independent B-Ds -- generated $500,000 in improper mutual fund sales commissions and caused net losses to its customers of $200,000.
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Attracted by high returns and low costs, investors continue to pour dollars into Vanguard and other equity index funds. more »
Bill Gross no longer runs the world’s largest mutual fund. more »
Investor demand improved, despite the continuation of outflows from municipal bond mutual funds for a 23rd consecutive week, at $503 million for the week of Oct. 30. more »
Pimco, the bond manager that started expanding into stocks four years ago, hired Virginie Maisonneuve from Schroders to lead the push after Neel Kashkari left in January. more »
The agency's chief administrative law judge has dismissed a commission order instituting cease and desist proceedings against two UBS executives in Puerto Rico for allegedly misleading mutual fund investors. more »
There have been 16 straight weeks of outflows from muni bond funds, to the tune of $26.4 billion, and industry watchers do not expect flows to bounce back anytime soon. more »
Advisors should be leery of the fads in mutual fund strategies, warns a top Morningstar analyst. more »
The bank launched new proprietary ETF portfolios that it says provide exposure to global investment opportunities by leveraging the international perspective of its parent, BNP Paribas. more »
Many large managers of municipal bond funds with Detroit paper said they haven't heard any panic from their investing clients since the city filed for bankruptcy and many of their funds have lost value. more »
Over the past two decades, investors have paid less and less to own shares of mutual funds. That's because investors demand low-cost funds, and because the fund industry is one characterized by competition, innovation, and economies of scale. more »
TrimTabs Investment Research reported that U.S. equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds gathered $34.4 billion in July through Wednesday, July 17, which is the second-highest inflow on record, according to the Sausalito, Calif.-based research shop. more »
Heavy outflows, at $1.56 billion, endure for municipal bond mutual funds as investor demand for tax-exempts continues to flag. more »
One service provider is looking to take advantage of the migration of hedge funds into the mutual funds space by offering its hedge fund clients its Investment Company Compliance Services offering. more »
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