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For the second time in a month, regulators have issued a warning to mutual fund companies on their advertising practices.

More than a dozen mutual fund firms and broker/dealers are backing an effort to match investors with financial advisors using a popular Microsoft Corp. website.

It may no longer be enough for a mutual fund company to supply defined contribution plan participants with a trusted brand name, a diversified portfolio of funds, strong performance and a glossy investment kit.

While ensuring auditor independence may make good business sense in the mutual fund industry, actually achieving it may be very difficult. But, difficult as it may be, it is a problem that mutual fund companies and accounting firms will no doubt have to tackle in the near future.

Why would a mutual fund company want to be bothered offering a 401(k) plan to a company with fewer than 100 employees when a 401(k) account at a single Fortune 500 company can mean tens of millions of dollars of assets under management?

A new survey by discount brokerage Charles Schwab has found that there may be a greater taste for online mutual fund trading than was previously thought.

Frank Holmes thinks he has a recipe to expand what has been a niche mutual fund firm.

Mutual funds are increasingly using the Internet for marketing and distribution. But a new fund will use the Internet to aid in portfolio management.

Mutual funds are supposed to be long-term investments. Somebody tell shareholders, quick.

NASD Regulation has postponed indefinitely the idea of adopting new rules which would have changed the way mutual fund companies pay broker/dealers for sales.