Investments

New survey finds tighter regulation, investment in new technology and enhanced marketing efforts have Canadian asset managers perched in the catbird's seat.

Exchange-traded funds are continuing to gain traction among Charles Schwab’s clients.ETF assets held by the firm’s clients climbed 34% in 2010, compared with 28% growth in the ETF industry overall, according to Schwab. The brokerage’s clients hold more than $111 billion in ETF assets.

Letting the net value of assets in a money market fund would "change the shape and form" of such funds -- and could create system risk, according to Maria F. Dwyer, the chief regulatory officer of MFS Investment Management.

Smaller Asian nations, namely Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, will lead global growth over the next year, asst management, private equity and hedge fund executives said in a survey conducted by RBC Capital Markets.

PIMCO announced on Monday that it launched a distribution platform for financial advisors and individual investors to better serve the retail market.

ETF assets held by the firm’s clients climbed 34% last year, compared with 28% growth in the ETF industry overall, according to Schwab. The brokerage’s clients hold more than $111 billion in ETF assets.

After the flat decade that stock-based mutual funds have had and with post-World War II baby boomers starting to retire, "it's all about income now," said Matt Witkos, president of Eaton Vance Distributors, at the opening of the National Investment Company Service Association 29th Annual Conference & Expo.

U.S. equity funds brought in $21 billion, the strongest month for sales in seven years.

The 29th Annual National Investment Company Service Association Conference & Expo opens Monday, with NICSA president Theresa Hammacher launching two assessments of the state of the fund industry.

Municipal bond mutual funds in the period ending Feb. 9 saw heavy withdrawals for the 13th consecutive week.

The fund business looks like it’s back.

In investing as in love, jumping from partner to partner will eventually lead to misery, more risk and lower returns.

The 29th Annual National Investment Company Service Association Conference & Expo opens Monday, with NICSA president Theresa Hammacher launching two assessments of the state of the fund industry.

ProShares has launched the ProShares UltraShort TIPS exchange-traded fund, which seeks to deliver -2x the daily return of the Barclays U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index.

Genworth Financial Wealth Management has added alternative investment specialist Altegris Advisors to its investment platform.

Standard & Poor’s has launched a new balanced series of indexes that combine equities and fixed income and that range from conservative to growth.

For a mutual fund with a strong track record, Nicholas Equity Income Fund is not particularly large. And its manager is fine with that.

Tax-exempt money market funds recouped most of last week’s losses, adding $2 billion and finishing with $326.39 billion in total net assets for the week ended Feb. 7, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

Last year saw a 22% increase in M&A worldwide, and another 36% increase is expected this year, according to Thomson Reuters.

Seventy percent of investors believe the S&P 500 will increase by the end of the year, compared with only 33% who were bullish on the market in August, a survey by MoneyShow.com found.