Investments

The good news for the merger and acquisitions market in 2012? Corporate profit margins have soared.

Brown Brothers Harriman launched a suite of ETFs designed to help clients access tools and reports through a single umbrella platform dubbed ETF Connect.

Investors sent money to municipal bond mutual funds for a sixth consecutive week, though at a decreased pace.

Charles Schwab's not the only fund firm grabbing headlines with its tech updates.

Morningstar today unveiled its nominees for the Morningstar Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year award.

The Board of Trustees of the Altrius Small Cap Value Fund, a series of the Northern Lights Fund Trust, has decided to liquidate the fund on December 28, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The exchange-traded funds space has had its fair share of successful launches and flameouts this year.

Schwab and Access Data, a Broadridge Financial Solutions-affiliated data management and analysis solutions provider, announced a new portal for mutual fund asset and sales data.

Chief executive officers' opinions of the economic outlook are virtually unchanged from the third quarter, according to the fourth quarter Business Roundtable CEO survey, released Wednesday.

“The findings are eye-opening for financial advisors because investors are clearly saying they are worried about the economic situation,” said Joe Ready, director of Institutional Retirement and Trust at Wells Fargo.

More changes in Securities and Exchange Commission leadership, which announced the appointment of a new senior advisor to the director in its division of investment management.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission defeated a federal court challenge to a rule requiring mutual funds with commodities investments to register with the agency.

IMPACT 2012 may be over, but Charles Schwab's tech spree certainly isn't.

The exchange-traded funds space has had its fair share of successful launches and flameouts this year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is turning over its leadership with the departure of yet another high-ranking official.

Happy holidays for Gemini Fund Services, which has announced a major achievement for its Northern Lights shared trusts.

Mutual funds suffered total estimated outflows of $2.0 billion for the week ended Wednesday, December 5, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

For the week ended Dec. 5, investors pulled an estimated $5.84 billion from U.S. funds, bringing total outflows for the year to more than $136 billion.

Many Americans are in the dark about stock market performance in 2012, according to an Edward Jones survey.

OppenheimerFunds is ringing in the holiday season in a geeky but philanthropic way.