Investments

There's growing concern in the mutual fund space about new regulatory requirements designed to increase transparency about business practices and generally expected to raise the stakes for fund firms and managers.

Nationwide Funds Group has merged the UBS High Yield Fund and UBS Global Equity Fund into the Nationwide High Yield Bond Fund and the Nationwide Global Equity Fund, giving Nationwide some $183 million in new assets

A year ago, Morningstar introduced its forward-looking analyst ratings system for the mutual funds it covers in the United States.

The Nationwide Funds Group is taking two tacks to drive growth of assets.

Ouch! Long-term mutual funds saw $2.99 billion in outflows for the week ended Wednesday, Nov. 14. That's a steep drop from $6.19 billion in inflows the week prior.

First Trust Advisors has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an active exchange-traded fund that will bet on the commodity futures market.

For the week ended November 14, investors pulled an estimated $6.6 billion from mutual funds that invest long-term in U.S. equities, bringing total outflows for the year to more than $123 billion.

The Generations Multi-Strategy Fund, a separate series of the Northern Lights Fund Trust, is liquidating after four years of trading.

Andy Brooks is concerned about what he sees as inequities in stock markets. And as head of U.S. equity trading at T. Rowe Price Associates in Baltimore, he's doing something about it.

Part of the steady uptick in investment in emerging market fixed income is due to the appearance of new players from the emerging markets themselves.

President Barack Obama has been re-elected. Is there portent for the mutual fund and exchange-traded fund industry?

Goldman Sachs now wants to be the lowest cost provider of execution services. That means more technology, fewer hands.

Has the bloom come off the inverse and the leveraged exchange-traded fund?

Risk tolerance in the younger U.S. mutual fund investor set has returned to the level seen before the financial crisis of 2008, according to research from the Investment Company Institute.

USAA Asset Management is so committed to bringing its equity fund business in-house that it is bidding adieu to two subadvisors.

Trading in the $3.7 trillion municipal securities market continued to decrease in the third quarter of 2012, according to market statistics released Nov. 20 by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Tuesday said the Fed cannot single-handedly neutralize the impact of the so-called fiscal cliff that the economy may tumble over come January 1.

State Street Corporation’s Chief Financial Officer Edward Resch, 60 is leaving his post in 2013, after more than a decade in the role.

Could the dismal European economy actually be "good" for anyone?

USAA Asset Management Company is so committed to bringing its equity fund business in-house that it is bidding adieu to two subadvisors.