Investment funds

Harbor Funds has launched the Harbor Flexible Capital Fund, managed by Marsico Capital Management.

Many of your clients are still shaking on the sidelines, which is typical behavior for small investors in prior post-recession bull markets. One investment manager has a possible solution for getting them back into the market.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched the Goldman Sachs N-11 Equity Fund, a long-only U.S. fund that will invest in the “next eleven” countries including Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey and Vietnam.

Forward Management LLC has just introduced an alternative-strategy mutual fund, and the company's chief executive officer predicts demand for such funds will help fuel a huge leap in the firm's assets.

NEW YORK-Traders feel more optimistic about the stock market than they did six months ago, said Kelli Keough, vice president of active trading at Charles Schwab, at a breakfast briefing Wednesday, to announce the launch of the firm’s new platform for active traders.

State Street Global Advisors on Thursday launched the SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF and the SPDR Barclays Capital Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF.

Factor Advisors has launched five leverage exchange-traded funds that hold both a bull and a bear position. The initial FactorShares ETFs combine holdings in the S&P 500 Index, U.S. Treasury bonds, gold, oil and the U.S. dollar.

Equity funds net $6.42 billion, with the bulk going to domestic stock funds.

In a survey of affluent U.S. investors, HSBC Securities reported a growing interest in overseas investing, and an opportunity for advisers to provide more information.

GE Asset Management has completed its appointment of Highland Funds Asset Management as investment advisor for the GE Funds. GE will serve as sub-advisor to all of the funds except the GE Small-Cap Equity Fund, which uses other third-party sub-advisors.

Putnam Investments announced Tuesday that it is developing an absolute return fund for use in variable annuities and other variable insurance products.

67% are overweight the asset class, according to the BoA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers.

Global X Funds has launched the Global X FTSE ASEAN 40 ETF, which targets the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, comprised of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. The fund tracks the FTSE/ASEAN 40 Index.

UMB Healthcare Services announced it has seen a significant increase in the number of health spending accounts and expects even more in 2011.

Let's get straight to the point: If you think your 17-year-old daughter is taking plastic sandwich bags out of kitchen cabinet to hide a cocaine habit, you're wrong.

MIAMI -- There is of course no event going on in America from January 14 through 16 than the 29th annual National Investment Company Service Association Conference & Expo.

It used to be that a mutual fund was a pretty easy product to launch. Line up a set up securities. Buy. Hold. Mix occasionally. Now, managing products such as target-date funds present serious operational challenges, the CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management Americas said

American Beacon Advisors has launched the American Beacon SiM High Yield Opportunities Fund, sub-advised by Strategic Income Management (SiM).

The “Who Knew” campaign showcases the firm’s four- and five-star-rated funds.

The date was October 13, 2008. One month after Lehman Brothers was left to twist quickly in the wind and die.