Investment funds

Following a disastrous first quarter a year ago, T. Rowe Price Group Inc. announced Friday that its quarterly profits more than tripled.

The civil suit filed against Goldman Sachs by the Securities & Exchange Commission alleging securities fraud could strengthen the argument to establish a universal fiduciary standard, according to legal experts.

The Department of the Treasury on Friday issued a questionnaire to primary dealers asking them how the SEC’s new money market fund rules, which take effect on May 5, could impact demand for Treasuries and the broader Treasury repo and cash market functioning. Treasury is seeking the information ahead of a meeting with the dealers on April 30.

NEW YORK—The financial services industry might want to take a cue from Domino’s Pizza before declaring “mission accomplished” on the economic crisis.

With stock gains in the triple-digit, where can an investor turn for the next big thing?

Dodd calls for study on performance information in advertisements.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chistopher Dodd (D-Conn.)’s financial overhaul bill takes issue with performance information in mutual fund advertisements and asks for a review of the practice by the comptroller general.

The Denver-based investment management saw profits and assets under management increase as trading continued to recover from the depths of the recession a year earlier.

Brookby, Gao now spearheading the New Opportunities, Vista and Small Cap Growth funds.

Brokers voice concerns at Mutual Fund Directors Forum.

WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed large trader reporting system would seriously hinder large floor traders and brokerages, according to industry executives.

Putnam President and CEO Robert L. Reynolds has replaced the managers of three funds to further bolster investment performance.

The country's two largest custody banks said they will keep looking for acquisitions, of whatever size, as they wait for higher interest rates to spur organic growth.

Former President Bill Clinton now says he had an inadvertent role in the credit crisis and the SEC’s civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs by signing the Commodity Futures Modernization Act in 2000, exempting the $58 trillion credit default swap industry from meaningful regulation.

The U.K.’s Financial Services Authority is finally cracking down on how prime brokers protect client assets.

Bernie Madoff's legacy is still influencing the regulatory community. Fraud is as much a part of Wall Street's history as the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange, but the Securities and Exchange Commission's recent amendments to its custody rule are intended to make life trickier for any future Madoff.

Despite increasing optimism about the economy, affluent investors remain concerned about retirement savings and the rising costs of healthcare.

Charles Schwab has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit related to its YieldPlus Fund for $200 million, far less than the $800 million plaintiffs had sought.

NEW YORK—Japan is the most energy-efficient country in the world, using nearly half the energy consumption per GDP of the United States and nearly one-eighth less than India and China, said Shuhei Abe, portfolio manager of the Hennessey Select SPARX Japan Fund.

WASHINGTON — Jafor Iqbal wonders if advisers are from Mars and retirees are from Venus.