Portfolio

Tax-free money market funds continued to suffer the effects of federal income tax season as investors withdrew $5.58 billion from industry, leaving total net assets at $263.91 billion, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds ETFs saw redemptions of $7.0 billion the week ended April 24.

Fidelity Investments has rolled out a Windows Phone 8 brokerage app for Windows Phone users to help them manage their investments on the go.

Total money market mutual fund assets dropped by $1.87 billion to $2.593 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, April 24, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Touchstone Investments is closing one fund and transferring its assets into another fund that, essentially, does the same thing.

A former Canadian “mutual fund” salesman has been banned for life from the industry and ordered to pay a fine of $6 million for stealing clients’ assets valued at some $12 million, the Globe and Mail reports.

Barack and Michelle Obama need a better financial strategy. Financial Planning has several suggestions.

The Wilmington Multi-Manager International Fund (GVIEX) has one less sub-advisor as of April 24.

401(k) plan participants paid less in mutual fund fees than the average investor industry last year, according to the Investment Company Institute’s latest report on the retirement space.

Schawb’s CEO Walt Bettinger sent clients a letter apologizing for the inconvenience caused by the company’s website outage Tuesday.