Investments

Exchange-traded funds saw inflows of $15.6 billion in November to bring year-to-date inflows to $154.0 billion, putting them on track to match or exceed 2008’s record-setting inflows, according to data from Morningstar.

Financial advisors and investors now see value of investing in managed futures, particularly in times of market stress.

Financial advisors and investors now see value of investing in managed futures, particularly in times of market stress.

Looks like eight Tennessee-based mutual fund directors bent the rules too far.

Exchange-traded funds saw inflows of $15.6 billion in November bring year-to-date inflows to $154.0 billion, putting them on track to match or exceed 2008’s record-setting inflows of $168.3 billion, according to data from Morningstar.

PIMCO's scored a patent.

It looks like Carlyle Group's planned acquisition of TCW Group from Societe Generale will not be sidetracked by an arbitration case filed by former TCW unit, EIG Global Energy Partners, had sought to block the sale.

Mutual funds may have tough times ahead, in remaining the investment of choice for a new generation of Americans. Their bread and butter: Older investors. Their weak spot: Investors under 35.

Fidelity Investments, the firm that lost its position as the biggest U.S. funds provider after ignoring exchange-traded products for years, is seeking to open an actively run ETF lineup starting with a corporate bond fund.

In January, the fabled 3.8% surtax on investment income becomes law. This surtax, included in health care legislation to bolster Medicare’s finances, is based on two key numbers. The IRS has just issued proposed regulations on one of those numbers: net investment income.

Investors cut bullish commodity bets for the first time in three weeks as U.S. lawmakers appeared no closer to an agreement to avert more than $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts and Europe cut its growth outlook.

The holidays have been good for money market funds.

The holidays and year-end are approaching rapidly, leaving investors anxious about where to stash their abundant cash.

Financial advisors and investors now see value of investing in managed futures, particularly in times of market stress.

Investors withdrew money last month from Vanguard Group's emerging markets exchange-traded fund, the industry's largest, after the firm said it would replace the fund's index.

Yet another private equity giant shop is looking to make it even bigger in the mutual fund space. Money Management Executive previously reported on KKR & Co.’s ’40 Act initiative in July.

Fidelity Investments is dipping its toes into hedge fund waters via a multi-manager mutual fund launched in partnership with hedge fund shop Arden Asset Management.

My favorite lobbying move of the year came in early May, in, of course, Washington, D.C.

The holidays have been good for money market funds.

Municipal bond mutual funds recorded their fifth straight week of inflows, and their 62nd week of positive flows in the past 66 weeks.