Fund performance

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.

The 20th anniversary is fast approaching of the launch by State Street Global Advisors in 1993 of the first investment fund that could be traded throughout the day like a stock.

Perhaps Matthew Lemieux, research analyst at Lipper, sums up best the damage Superstorm Sandy has wrought on the mutual fund and ETF space.

Relationships help fund firms retain assets, says Cogent Research.

The SSgA Tuckerman Active REIT Fund will soon be looking for another subadvisor.

Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest mutual fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said there is no evidence that investment is being spurred by the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program.

Hurricane Sandy kicked up total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds to $5.45 billion for the week ended Wednesday, October 24, according to the Investment Company Institute.

In real estate, the three keys are location, location and location. But in the case of Charles Schwab's latest ETF Investor Snapshot, the keys are real estate and more real estate.

Waddell & Reed Financial’s net income plunged in the third quarter due to losses from the sale of its Legend group of subsidiaries to First Allied Holdings.

Great-West Financial today reported that its Great-West Lifetime Funds grew 97% to $3.2 billion for the year ended September 30, 2012, compared to the same period a year ago.

Affiliated Managers Group, which bets on boutique investment management firms today reported third quarter earnings of $101.2 million, compared to $82.1 million for the same period of 2011.