Fund performance

Assets of all exchange-traded funds rose in March by $37.54 billion, or 2.7%, to $1.446 trillion, according to the Investment Company Institute.

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

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

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.

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds ETFs saw redemptions of $7.0 billion the week ended April 24.

Total money market mutual fund assets dropped by $1.87 billion to $2.593 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, April 24, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $3.66 billion for the week ended Wednesday, April 17, according to the Investment Company Institute.

The Money Management Institute last night announced the winners of its 2013 Industry Leadership Awards at its Gateway to Leadership Dinner in New York City.

Executives at Waddell & Reed Financial have a few billion reasons to smile.

Fresh all-time highs from various indexes along with bullish commentators attempting to one-up each other with higher and higher price targets might have more cautious investors wondering where the bargains are.

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

Asset management firms with pro-defined contribution viewpoints may want to think twice about asking public sector defined benefit plans for contributions to their funds.

U.S. mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, excluding money-market funds, pulled $6.5 billion in net inflows in the week ended April 17, according to Lipper.

Total money market mutual fund assets dropped by $27.47 billion to $2.595 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, April 17, according to the Investment Company Institute.

BlackRock said first-quarter earnings rose 10% as its exchange-traded stock funds drew client cash and assets increased.

Three research analysts at Harris Associates, adviser to The Oakmark Funds, have been appointed co-managers of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund (OAKBX).

Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $4.83 billion for the week ended Wednesday, April 10, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Mutual fund investors rolled some $2.0 billion into equity mutual funds for the week ended April 10, according to Jeff Tjornehoj, Head of Americas Research at Lipper, who said that: “Lest anyone get too excited about the inflows, they were the lightest weekly net sales of this year.”

Money market assets fell $8.9 billion to $2.6 trillion for the week ended April 10, according to Investment Company Institute data.

Investors poured $16.9 billion into exchange-traded funds in March, bringing the first-quarter total to $53.1 billion, according to data from Morningstar.