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Assets of institutional money market funds increased by $13.17B in the last week, the third largest inflow of institutional money since the end of March.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India is preparing to take a number of steps to reenergize the mutual fund industry in India.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average scampered up 25.09 points Friday to finish at 13.275.20 while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 added 14.20 points and 2.65 points, respectively.

More than a third of investors are less tolerant of risk than they were eight months ago, according to a new TD Ameritrade investor sentiment survey.

Henry Blodget, former cheerleader for the dot-com bubble and now editor-in-chief of The Business Insider website, names the big fund managers that got taken to the cleaners with the Facebook IPO in an article published yesterday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 85.33 points Thursday to finish at 13,250.11 while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 added 31.46 points and 9.98 points, respectively.

At four years and counting, the low-yield environment for bond looks likely to continue well beyond 2012 and has caused many investors to sit on the sidelines and miss out on additional income.

For some clients, it might make a lot of sense for planners to hedge large corrections by treating market volatility as an asset class to protect them from excessive downside risk.

The stock fund exit stampede continued last week, but at a slower pace. Investors withdrew $3.56 billion the week ended Aug. 8, down significantly from $5.65 billion the previous week.

Individual investors like what they see in long-term muni bond mutual funds and so have been pouring more money into them in 2012 than they have in years.

FINRA says the brokerage didn't have enough controls in place to detect that Jared Weinryt had breached his $116 million trading limit as he made overnight bets on so-called futures.

Midsized RIA firms are the new sweet spot for managers of mutual funds and ETFs, according to a new report from Cerulli Associates.

The tech-laden Nasdaq added 13.95 points Wednesday to finish at 3030.93 but the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 lost 7.36 points and 1.60 points, respectively.

Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States government a year ago has had a wide but shallow impact on municipal bonds.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 2.71 points Tuesday to close at 13.172.14 while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq trimmed 0.58 points and 5.54 points, respectively. Here are some more details from Tuesday's trading session: Dow Jones Industrial Average: Up six of the past eight trading days. An intraday high of 13223.01 occurred at 09:32:19 today, representing an increase of 53.58 points, or 0.41%. An intraday low of 13142.10 occurred at 15:53:39 today, representing a decrease of down 27.33…

Global investors are betting on a short-term bounce in equities, boosted by expectations that the European Central Bank will engage in so-called quantitative easing by the year end, a Bank of America Corp. survey showed.

Howard C. Greene, the lead portfolio manager for the John Hancock Bond Fund, has just passed the 10-year milestone at the helm of the $1.4 billion fund.

Money-market fund companies obtained permission to support 155 of their funds during the financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, and six more funds got the same go- ahead since the crisis, according to a list provided to Congress by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Bond fund sales grew at a record pace with $350 billion in net inflows during the first half of 2012, according to Strategic Insight, a New York-based research firm. The trend is most dramatic in Europe, where investors are migrating to high-yield, emerging and global debt, according to the firm.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 38.52 points to close at 13,169.43 - ending a six-day winning streak. The S&P 500 also trimmed 1.76 points to finish at 1,404.11 and the Nasdaq inched up 1.66 points.