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For the week ended Jan. 2, 2013, investors pulled an estimated $6.44 billion from funds that invest in long-term instruments, the second largest outflow in 2012.

Happy times for global exchange traded products has spelled happy times for BlackRock.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $37.78 billion for the week ended Jan. 2, according to the Investment Company Institute.

William Frels and Mark Henneman, who run the $2.5 billion Mairs & Power Growth Fund, were named domestic stock-fund managers of the year by Morningstar Inc.

Bruce Karpati, chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division's asset management unit, has a few choice words for hedge funds looking to get into the mutual fund space.

Prudential has added a new line-up of target-date funds for defined contribution plan participants.

The U.S. economy has turned the corner and experts see a better year for Wall Street.

Luz Padilla, the senior portfolio manager at DoubleLine Funds discusses emerging markets and opportunities for global investing.

One analyst says it's time to separate bond fund classification strategies into distinct groups.

A drop in risk tolerance pulls down the latest index reading.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $28.39 billion to $2.665 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, December 26, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Investors yanked an estimated $3.26 billion from municipal bond funds, giving them a severe black eye and their first weekly outflow this year.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is currently prepping an alternative mutual multi-manager fund to launch in 2013.

Industry experts and thought leaders make their predictions about what is to come for advisors and investing in 2013.

Hedge funds are packing up and heading south. Is this a continuing trend or a brief part of the financial sector's ongoing evolution?

So what are three elements that are going to shape the mutual fund landscape in 2013? The answer lies in regulation, exchange-traded funds and operational outsourcing, according to a report from Deloitte.

Bill McNabb, chief executive officer of the Vanguard Group, has 130 billion reasons to smile this holiday season.

For the week ended Dec. 12, investors pulled an estimated $6.57 billion from mutual funds, their biggest weekly withdrawal this year.

Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by market value, bought a stake in Rock Creek Group LP to provide more hedge-fund offerings to clients amid a push to double the asset-management unit within seven years.

All of a sudden, everyone wants to give the retail investor a break.