Portfolio

A new report by research shop Cerulli Associates is sure to make a few subadvisors smile.

Perhaps it was only a matter of time before Morningstar decided to put its stamp of approval, and disapproval, on alternative mutual funds.

Sy Sacks is on a crusade.

The starter's pistol is about to be fired for the swaps industry.

Estee lauder’s chief executive officer, Fabrizio Freda, is giving BlackRock, Inc.’s Board of Directors a makeover. Well, sort of.

It seems that the folks at Spectrum Advisory Services Inc., manager of the Marathon Value Portfolio mutual fund (NASDAQ: MVPFX) were victims of malicious hackers who hacked into the third-party host server of the Fund’s website on June 30.

On July 27, 2012, Investors pumped in $6.3 billion into mutual funds and exchange-traded funds for the week ended July 25, according to data from Lipper.

Target-date funds pulled in $13.9 billion in the second quarter despite the nearly 3% loss on average, according to Morningstar.

The tide of investor demand stays high for municipal bond mutual funds. A strong week of record-low muni bond yields on the intermediate and long ends of the curve marked the week ended July 25.investor-demands-keeps-muni-fund-flows-high

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Thursday a stymied plan by U.S. regulators to reform money market mutual funds must be allowed to move forward.