Investments

A new study by is looking to answer the age-old question: Do active investment managers (e.g., mutual funds and hedge funds) add value above and beyond simply investing in an index?

Thomson Reuters has introduced a model that can determine which stocks are likely to be bought and sold from a fund manager’s portfolio.

The Government Accountability Office report on muni bond transactions released in January said that retail investors paid an average 2.5% markup when buying $5,000 worth of municipal securities in the secondary market.

Investment Company Institute President and CEO Paul Schott Stevens argues that the SEC's upcoming proposal to tighten the regulation of money market funds will harm investors, damage financing for businesses and governments and jeopardize the economic recovery.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added another 45.79 points Friday to close at 12,949.87, pushing the index up 6% so far for the year.

Key Additions at Northern Trust Alternatives; MMI Appoints Lensing and Ledbury as VPs; Stephenson and Klaas Join Heartland Marketing; Eze Castle Promotes Holden to CFO

This is not about your father's index.

Equities Order Flow Drops for Third Straight Year; BNY Mellon Develops Omnibus Platform; Citi to Administer Assets for Credit Suisse

The Great Recession ended 32 months ago. But fear about the sturdiness of its recovery persists.

James Roche is stable asset sales director for Standard Insurance Company's ("The Standard") stable value products (SVPs). Here, Roche walks through the key tenets behind stable value funds.

The leadership team for Citi Capital Advisors (CCA) disclosed in a memo yesterday that the global alternative asset management platform for institutional and ultra high net worth investors will soon be under employee ownership separate from its parent company.

The asset manager cut about 90 jobs this week, including those of analysts, portfolio managers and distribution workers. AllianceBernstein also will consolidate or close some of its smaller funds.

ICI president Paul Schott Stevens Thursday argued that the SEC's upcoming proposal to tighten the regulation of money market funds will harm investors, damage financing for businesses and governments and jeopardize the economic recovery. Here’s his speech.

After two weeks of decline, total money market mutual fund assets increased by $2.86 billion to $2.659 trillion in the week ended Wednesday, Feb. 15, according to the Investment Company Institute.

S&P Capital IQ has published a paper that outlines a new method for analyzing how macroeconomic figures can lead to microeconomic results. That is to say, choices of what companies to put in a mutual fund’s holdings.

Had NYSE Euronext merged with Deutsche Börse, NYSE Technologies could have claimed perhaps the most formidable portfolio of trading tools and services in the world. Here's the bill Fixnetix fills instead.

After two weeks of decline, total money market mutual fund assets increased by $2.86 billion to $2.659 trillion in the week ended Wednesday, February 15, according to the Investment Company Institute.

S&P Capital IQ has published a paper that outlines a new method for analyzing how macroeconomic figures can lead to microeconomic results. That is to say, choices of what companies to put in a mutual fund’s holdings.

BlackRock has launched seven iShares exchange-traded funds, including its first fixed-income ETFs to focus on specific industries and mortgage-backed securities.

The bulls firmly regained control Thursday, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 123.13 points to 12,904.08 after a barrage of positive economic reports hit the wire as well as news that eurozone central banks have agreed to exchange their existing Greek bonds for new securities.