Portfolio

Well, it sounded like a good deal.

Naperville. IL-based Calamos Investments is prepping its Long/Short Fund to launch in the next month or so.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today published a guidance update to clarify what mutual funds and other investment advisors can say on their social media sites.

Forward Funds is liquidating a pair of alternative mutual funds.

And the winners of the Lipper Fund Awards 2013 US are?

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $5.32 billion to $2.652 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, March 13, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Municipal bond mutual funds saw outflows for a second straight week, at $133 million, as the market absorbed a large calendar with concessions.

As the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement and litigation activity in 2012 demonstrates, the agency's focus on municipal market enforcement has increased dramatically, and this trend seems likely to continue under the SEC's new leadership.

Total stock and bond mutual fund and ETF assets distributed by independent/regional broker-dealers and registered investment advisors grew at more than twice the rate compared to the wirehouse channel during 2012, according to newly released data from Access Data.

Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $11.85 billion for the week ended Wednesday, March 6, according to the Investment Company Institute.