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Looks like eight Tennessee-based mutual fund directors bent the rules too far.

Exchange-traded funds saw inflows of $15.6 billion in November bring year-to-date inflows to $154.0 billion, putting them on track to match or exceed 2008’s record-setting inflows of $168.3 billion, according to data from Morningstar.

PIMCO's scored a patent.

It looks like Carlyle Group's planned acquisition of TCW Group from Societe Generale will not be sidetracked by an arbitration case filed by former TCW unit, EIG Global Energy Partners, had sought to block the sale.

Mutual funds may have tough times ahead, in remaining the investment of choice for a new generation of Americans. Their bread and butter: Older investors. Their weak spot: Investors under 35.

Fidelity Investments, the firm that lost its position as the biggest U.S. funds provider after ignoring exchange-traded products for years, is seeking to open an actively run ETF lineup starting with a corporate bond fund.

The holidays and year-end are approaching rapidly, leaving investors anxious about where to stash their abundant cash.

Financial advisors and investors now see value of investing in managed futures, particularly in times of market stress.

Investors withdrew money last month from Vanguard Group's emerging markets exchange-traded fund, the industry's largest, after the firm said it would replace the fund's index.

The exchange-traded funds space has had its fair share of successful launches and flameouts this year.

Two years ago almost to the day, EDGAR Online, an R.R. Donnelly company, struck agreements with three strategic partners that allowed it to create risk-return summaries in the eXtensible Business Reporting Language for mutual funds, which had to meet federal guidelines for interactive financial filings.

The good news for the merger and acquisitions market in 2012? Corporate profit margins have soared.

Mutual funds may have tough times ahead, in remaining the investment of choice for a new generation of Americans. Their bread and butter: Older investors. Their weak spot: Investors under 35.

Yet another private equity giant shop is looking to make it even bigger in the mutual fund space. Money Management Executive previously reported on KKR & Co.’s ’40 Act initiative in July.

Fidelity Investments is dipping its toes into hedge fund waters via a multi-manager mutual fund launched in partnership with hedge fund shop Arden Asset Management.

Expect reinforcements to Sentinel Investments' defined contribution team.

My favorite lobbying move of the year came in early May, in, of course, Washington, D.C.

The holidays have been good for money market funds.

Vanguard Group may already be the largest mutual fund provider in the nation, but that doesn't mean it plans to stop growing.

The Board of Trustees of BNY Mellon Funds Trust is looking to add another sub-advisor to the 3-star rated, $1.2 billion BNY Mellon Mid Cap Multi-Strategy Fund.