International funds

VelocityShares has launched three exchange-traded funds that invest in emerging market depositary receipt. The VelocityShares Emerging Market DR ETF ( EMDR), VelocityShares Emerging Asia DR ETF (ASDR), and VelocityShares Russia Select DR ETF (RUDR) all track BNY Mellon indexes.

Exchange-traded fund flows topped $17.3 billion in March with the fixed income category leading the way to the tune of $5 billion, increasing its year-to-date net flows to $7.1 billion, according to State Street Global Advisor’s latest ETF Snapshot.

Global exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products continued their asset gathering in Q1, led by equity products, with record global net inflows of $73.4 billion, according to ETFGI’s Global ETF and ETP industry insights report for Q1.

Attention! San Antonio, Texas-based USAA, the financial services company that caters to U.S. Armed Forces and State Department personnel and their families, wants to launch active exchange traded funds

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $2.61 billion to $2.631 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, April 3, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Westwood Holdings Group has launched three funds focused on global and emerging market equities: Westwood Emerging Markets Fund (WWEMX, WWEAX), Westwood Global Equity Fund (WWGEX) and Westwood Global Dividend Fund (WWGDX).

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. has launched the BBH Global Core Select Fund (BBGNX and BBGRX), a successor to the BBH private investment partnership, BBH Global Funds, LLC – Global Core Select, which launched on April 2, 2012.

Franklin Templeton is the most recent fund manager to target the growing emerging markets bond fund category with the launch of the Templeton Emerging Markets Bond Fund.

State Street Global Advisors has joined forces with GSO Capital Partners, the global credit business of The Blackstone Group, to launch the SPDR Blackstone / GSO Senior Loan ETF (SRLN).

Investors pumped $9.12 billion into long-term mutual funds for the week ended Wednesday, March 27, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Fred Alger Management has launched the Alger Capital Appreciation Focus Strategy (ALGRX, ALGIX), which follows an investment strategy that concentrates the portfolio’s holdings to generally less than 50 securities.

Pioneering exchange-traded fund provider Global X Funds is adding some more frontier market flavor to its portfolio.

The global exchange-traded product industry recorded its best Q1 on record amassing flows of $70.1 billion compared to the previous record of $65.5 billion set last year, according to Blackrock’s latest ETP Landscape Monthly Snapshot.

iShares is currently prepping the MSCI Colombia Capped ETF to launch within the next few months.

Two of Vanguard's international funds have switched indexes.

Hedge fund stalwart AQR Capital Management has added three "core equity" mutual funds to its growing mutual fund portfolio.

Aberdeen Asset Management has launched two new mutual funds: Aberdeen Latin American Equity Fund (ALEAX) and Aberdeen European Equity Fund (AEUAX) to satiate U.S. investors’ appetite for global exposure.

Wealth management shop Aspiriant today officially unveiled its maiden mutual fund: Aspiriant Risk-Managed Global Equity Fund (RMEAX).

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has strengthened its ties with OppenheimerFunds Inc.

The Cyprus crisis seems to have the entire world gasping, including equity mutal fund investors.