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Leawood, KS-based Cognios Capital is breaking into the mutual fund space via an alternative offering.

Pioneer Investments has launched Class K shares of its mutual funds for defined contribution plans that are precluded from investing in mutual fund shares with Rule 12b-1 fees or sub-transfer agency fees as part of the expense ratio.

It turns out that iShares will not be raising fees on its exchange-traded funds anytime soon.

Bruce Karpati, chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division's asset management unit, has a few choice words for hedge funds looking to get into the mutual fund space.

DoubleLine Capital is starting the New Year with a pair of new hires from an old rival.

Phone calls, email, staff and clients: How do you get everything done each day? Since adding more hours is probably off the table, advisors must be more productive in the time they do have.

iShares is looking to ring in the New Year in a contrarian way.

WHV Investment Management today announced that Andrew Turner will join the company as president and chief executive officer, replacing Judith Stevens who is retiring next month after more than three decades with WHV.

Emerald Asset Advisors is starting out the New Year with one less fund to worry about.

Southfield, MI-based Advance Capital Management’s Board of Directors today passed a resolution terminating the sub investment advisor relationship with Birmingham, MI-based Seizert Capital Partners.

Parametric Portfolio Associates, a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. (EV), and The Clifton Group Investment Management Company announced today the completion of the previously announced purchase of Clifton by Parametric.

Morningstar today gave props to a few funds that that the research firm said went from worst to first in 2012.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $28.39 billion to $2.665 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, December 26, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Morningstar has reaffirmed or identified 38 funds as Morningstar Medalists, giving out Gold ratings to 17 funds.

Federated Investors is looking to fold a 2-Star rated fund into a 4-Star rated fund.

Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer and co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Company, is adding another title to his business card.

This holiday season has been a mixed bag for TCW Group.

For the week ending Wednesday, December 26, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds reported net inflows of $3 billion, excluding the inflows of $18.2 billion to money market accounts, according to data from Lipper.

The Investment Company Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today filed a notice of appeal of a recent ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upholding the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s rule requiring mutual funds with commodities investments to register with the agency.

Remember the hype surrounding 130/30 funds a few years back? Well, some have gone the way of the dinosaur and some just simply changed their name a la the MainStay 130/30 Core Fund.