Investments

The more portfolio managers invest in their own funds the better, according to a recent Morningstar study.

The world's largest bond fund has cut back on U.S. securities as yields are expected to rise this year.

Firms still have many managers deep within their benches that have found strategies to deliver significant returns for investors.

Pimco’s Total Return Fund, the world’s largest bond fund with $117.4 billion in assets, has cut way back on its holdings of U.S. securities.

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“Asset managers are still giving a ‘free liquidity option’ to investors,” one analyst wrote. “Investors will have to eventually pay for this either upfront, or in terms of higher volatility.”

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The news that Mohamed El-Erian has his portfolio largely in cash has many investors wondering if they should follow suit. But what may make sense for a mega- millionaire’s portfolio isn’t necessarily a good move for people with much more modest portfolios.

Funds focusing specifically on dividend payers offer narrower exposure than typical equity-income or growth-and-income funds.

New Hampshire wants LPL to pay $3.6 million in a fine, other costs and restitution, following millions LPL already has paid to FINRA and Massachusetts.

If the Financial Stability Oversight Council was hoping for any kind of consensus on whether and how it should regulate asset management companies, the feedback it has received on its request for comment is likely disappointing.

Neuberger Berman, the employee-owned money manager that oversees $250 billion in client assets, named MetLife Chief Executive Officer Steven Kandarian to its board.

Placing the opportunity for ordinary investors to invest in hot pre-IPO companies in a fund required SharesPost to first answer a question: how exactly would the fund be structured?

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said it would change its lineup of money-market mutual funds to make them comply with new federal regulations.

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Retirement product providers say that they continue to struggle with reluctant employers and misinformed employees about the benefits of their offerings.

Redemptions at Pimco's biggest mutual fund slowed for the third straight month as performance rebounded this year.

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