Fund performance

s Vanguard engaged in a fee war in the mutual fund space?

President Barack Obama has been re-elected. Is there portent for the mutual fund and exchange-traded fund industry?

Negative investor sentiment still plague mutual funds and ETFs, which both saw outflows in the week ended Nov. 14.

The Board of Trustees of Natixis Funds Trust I has decided to liquidate the Absolute Asia Dynamic Equity Fund, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Touchstone has much to be thankful for going into the holidays next week with a special three-year anniversary for five of its funds.

The PIMCO Global Multi-Asset fund dropped one notch to a Bronze rating from a Silver rating, while the BlackRock Small Cap Growth Equity fund jumped one notch to a Neutral rating, exiting Negative territory, according to Morningstar.

FTSE Group is furthering its relationship with Vanguard by licensing two more indices: the FTSE Canada High Dividend Yield Index and the FTSE Canada All Cap Real Estate Capped 25% Index, to Vanguard as the basis of two new exchange-traded funds to be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

PIMCO continues to dominate the active exchange-traded funds space in terms of assets and market share.

Jeffrey Gundlach, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of DoubleLine Capital, has 50 billion reasons to smile this week.

Total money market mutual fund assets decreased by $2.54 billion to $2.575 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Bond funds had estimated inflows of $7.50 billion, compared to estimated inflows of $2.59 billion for the week ended Wednesday, November 7, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Thomson Reuters has launched a benchmarking product to help custodian banks with performance measurement analytics, and Northern Trust has signed up as the first service provider to adopt the indices for its institutional fund servicing clients.

New research by the Center for Applied Research, a think tank affiliate of State Street Corporation, is bound to leave a few advisors scratching their heads.

Halloween offered a nice treat for the exchange-traded fund industry.

One commodity fund has received the dreaded Negative rating from Morningstar.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $31.24 billion to $2.578 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, November 7, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

With Obama in office for a second term, the markets are likely to do well, the fiscal cliff will probably be resolved and Dodd-Frank and Obama's healthcare legislation are here to stay, said current and former MFS investment experts during the firm’s post-election webcast for financial advisors.

Total estimated outflows from long-term mutual funds were $488 million for the week ended Wednesday, October 31, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Global exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products experienced inflows US$13.5 billion of net new assets in October, which is lower than the $40 billion of net inflows in September 2012, according to data from ETFGI.

First came “active” management: A pension fund, endowment or foundation hired managers that it felt could get results that “outperformed” the market.