Portfolio

Consumers are increasingly going online to research insurance and annuity products, but the Internet is far from displacing insurance professionals from their roles.

Mutual funds experienced total estimated inflows of $2.05 billion for the week ended Wednesday, October 3, according to the Investment Company Institute.

PineBridge Investments is getting out of the mutual fund business.

For the week ended Oct. 3, investors yanked an estimated $10.6 billion from U.S. stock mutual funds, bringing total outflows for the year to more than $103 billion.

The Investment Company Institute’s Board of Governors has elected ICI Chairman Greg Johnson, president and chief executive officer, Franklin Resources, to serve an additional one-year term.

MainStay Investments earlier this month finalized the adoption of the MainStay Marketfield Fund (MFLDX; MFADX).

More than half (52%) of all institutional investors around the world plan to rethink over the next decade the traditional way they’ve always allocated the assets under their control, according to the results of a survey by Pyramis Global Advisors.

Small banks had total investment revenue of $266 million for the first half, up 11% over the same time period last year: report.

Wall Street executives show a more conservative outlook toward their investments, but a majority still avoid a financial advisor.

More than one-third of the nation’s largest pension plans and institutional investors believe that traditional investing approaches will not be effective in 10 years.