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The boutique purveyors of the mutual fund world have different branding and distribution challenges than their larger asset management counterparts.

Alternative mutual funds are hot and signs are pointing to a greater expansion of the growing asset class.

The stars are aligning for Fidelity Investments to start its home-grown family of exchange-traded funds.

T. Rowe Price Group has no immediate plans to begin offering active exchange-traded funds, the Baltimore Business Journal reports.

Just like many corporate boards, mutual fund boards have an opportunity to strengthen their operations, and solve some of the challenges they face, by more effectively thinking about the value of diversity.

Every industry has its Achilles' heel. For fund administrators, it's issues with data integrity and the lack of automation of key operations, such as expense processing. In terms of fund expenses, there is more to think about than advisor fee justification and distribution fee compliance.

Pacific Investment Management Co. is becoming less dependent on Bill Gross, preparing for an eventual future without the world's best-known bond investor and adding pressure on its rising stars to live up to his legacy.

Fixed-income exchange-traded funds have made big strides in asset gathering over the past five years, rising from $53.7 billion in 2008 to $229.1 billion by March of 2013, according to Lipper.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's new leader, Mary Jo White, will bring her years of experience as a federal litigator before the fund industry this week as its members try to judge whether she will propose reforms that could cripple the marketplace.

"Everything is bigger in Texas." That's certainly the case when the Raymond James and its 2013 national conference descended on Dallas, where thousands of advisors around the country gathered to learn best practices and swap ideas.