Investments

ALPS last week unveiled its exchange-traded fund joint venture with Goldman Sachs in the form of four new ETFs.

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.

Aston Asset Management has fired Todd-Veredus Asset Management, the subadvisor to two of the firm's small-cap funds, Morningstar reports.

Two Roads Shared Trust last week revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing what it alluded to in a press release earlier this month.

Oppenheimer Funds’ New York Board has added two new members to its roster in the form of Joanne Pace and Admiral Edmund Giambastiani, Jr.

So what are three elements that are going to shape the mutual fund landscape in 2013?

The Securities and Exchange Commission last week barred an Arizona-based mutual fund manager from the securities industry for failing to follow his own prospectus, which led to his fund’s collapse.

ALPS last week unveiled its exchange-traded fund joint venture with Goldman Sachs in the form of four new ETFs.

The combined assets of the nation’s exchange-traded funds rose in November by $26.06 billion, or 2.1%, to $1.295 trillion.in November, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

This week, municipal bond funds saw their largest outflows since January 2011 and the fifth largest on record.

Samson Capital Advisors has launched its maiden mutual fund, a currency offering dubbed the Samson STRONG Nations Currency Fund.

The U.S. News & World Report today named its mutual fund winners for 2012, including a once-fallen star manager and a mutual fund trade group.

The combined assets of the nation’s exchange-traded funds rose in November by $26.06 billion, or 2.1%, to $1.295 trillion.in November, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Legg Mason Global Asset Management last month teamed up with Brandywine Global Investment Management to launch the Legg Mason BW Global High Yield Fund.

Investors redeemed $6.57 billion from mutual funds for the week ended Wednesday, December 12, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

While the bloom is still on the alternative mutual fund rose, 2012 hasn't been as kind to alternatives as in years past.

"We are likely to end 2012 with a record level of assets'' in exchange-traded funds and other exchange-traded products, said Deborah Fuhr, Managing Partner at ETFGI, the London consulting firm that compiles the numbers. This should also reflect "a record level of net new assets invested into the products during the year.''

Exchange-traded funds have had a banner year, reaching a new peak of $1.7 trillion in assets held, at the end of November.

While the bloom is still on the alternative mutual fund rose, 2012 hasn't been as kind to alternatives as in years past.

Target-date funds are slowly inching their way into 401(k) plan participants’ portfolios.