Fund performance

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White met with leaders of the equities and options exchanges, FINRA, DTCC and the Options Clearing Corporation following the August 22 interruption in the trading of NASDAQ-listed securities.

Interest rate and credit risk continue to invade investor portfolios looking for an appropriate hedge against equity investments.

During the crisis of 2008, service providers faced an environment in which they saw their clients' assets decline sharply.

Executives at mutual fund companies, asset management companies and support providers rated client reporting--which included any reporting that is created for the purpose of distribution to clients--as their top challenge followed closely by risk management in Money Management Executive's third annual Operations Survey.

Bloomberg -- Treasuries fell for the first time in three days as U.S. lawmakers made progress on passing a budget and ending a partial government shutdown, curtailing demand for the relative safety of debt.

It's a rare day when a hedge fund manager admits he's never heard of an asset type. But that's just what Ray Schuville, a managing director and private client advisor at U.S. Trust, heard from a client earlier this year.

While IT budgets at buy-side firms have not fully recovered from the cutbacks of the Great Recession, front-office demands keep growing in quantity, complexity and required speed of response.

Interest rate and credit risk continue to invade investor portfolios looking for an appropriate hedge against equity investments.

What do buyers of ETFs hate more than high expense ratios and trade commissions? Hidden fees.

Mutual fund families have traditionally left the topic of how to allocate certain fund expenses to management and fund officers.

BNY Mellon has announced the launch of an enhanced distribution "waterfall" capability as part of its private equity fund services.

Bloomberg -- Pimco's Bill Gross said the U.S. will avoid a “catastrophic” default on Treasury securities even if lawmakers fail to extend the debt limit on the nation’s debt.

Rob Goldman founded Goldman Small Cap Research (GSCR)-not affiliated with Goldman Sachs-in 2009. He has over 20 years of investment and research experience as a senior research analyst and as a portfolio and mutual fund manager.

Bloomberg -- A partisan stalemate that partially shut down the U.S. government may lessen the appetite of lawmakers for risking a debt default later this month.

Bloomberg -- Most U.S. oversight of financial markets and institutions will continue to operate as usual during a government shutdown because most regulators are funded with independent revenue.

The vast majority of Americans ages 25+ with more than $200,000 in investable assets surveyed in the Allianz Life 2013 Investor Market Perceptions Study said they are seeking some form of protection from losses as they accumulate assets for retirement.

Bloomberg -- The Treasury Department said money managers could pose threats to the U.S. financial system when reaching for higher returns, herding into popular asset classes or amplifying price movements with leverage.

Innovation is a constant in any industry, but sometimes in the fund business its mark is not always obvious.

With Congress showing no sign of consensus, the looming threat of a government shutdown is instilling fear and unease among those from Main Street to Wall Street.

Bloomberg -- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is poised to get more than $2 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. stock through warrants acquired during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis.