Portfolio

The annual FP50 finds growth moderating, as well as firms strategizing to retain and build market share

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Vanguard today launched the Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund, which is available in Investor, Admiral, and Institutional shares.

New Orleans-based St. Denis J. Villere & Company is adding another mutual fund to its roster.

Azzad Asset Management is widening the distribution of one of its funds.

Mutual fund assets inched up by $179.6 billion, or 1.3%, to $13.856 trillion in April, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Karla D'Alleva Valas, a managing director of the Complex Asset Group for Fidelity Charitable, says she cringes during her church's services when congregants drop envelopes of what she assumes is cash into the donations basket. Why? Cash is expensive, she told advisors at the Women Advisors Forum in Dallas on Thursday.

Alternative mutual funds are making their way into the market via mutual fund firms, hedge funds, private equity shops and now banks.

Money market mutual fund assets increased by $12.20 billion to $2.613 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, May 29, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Outflows among tax-exempt money market funds continued to fluctuate in the week ended May 27 as $1.84 billion fled the industry and total net assets settled at $257.43 billion, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.