Investments

TIAA-CREF: Heritage Helping With DCIO Efforts

Managed Futures Cost Investors Profits as Fees Wipe Away Gains

Here are some of the smartest things heard -- and tweeted -- from Tuesday's conference hosted by financial advisors and bloggers Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown in New York City.

Treasury Bill Rates Surge to Highest Since 2008 at 1-Month Sale

Hedged Equity ETFs Gain Steam

The firm was praised for its client marketing materials at the annual Retirement Income Industry Association conference. Allianz and Principal were also honored.

Municipal analysts and strategists are looking in the health care and housing industries and at credits with intermediate maturities for potential bargains that may be created by irrational fears over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling.

The turnkey asset management platform taps executives with experience at Fidelity, Schwab and Russell Investments.

ETFs Becoming the 'It' Strategy for Institutions

With the size of the exchange-traded product market expanding rapidly each year, it is important for advisors to understand exactly what they are purchasing.

Hedge Funds Expand Bets With Most Junk Since ’08: Credit Markets

The Morningstar Awards recognize the best ETF firms as well as Morningstar ETF Category Winners for two classes of investing objectives, Investor and Trader, based on total cost of ownership and performance.

A second quarter report found growth in both ongoing net contributions and positive investment returns, and across a range of retirement account types.

The world’s biggest investors are finding U.S. government bonds becoming safer, not more risky, as the deadline to avoid the first American default approaches.

Treasuries Becalmed as Debt Cap Approaches With Gross Buying

BlackRock’s Fink Is Captivated by Pimco Favorite: Mexico Credit

Morningstar, Inc. announced the winners of its second annual Morningstar Awards for U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and ETF providers at its annual ETF Invest Conference in Chicago.

While IT budgets at buy-side firms have not fully recovered from the cutbacks of the Great Recession, front-office demands keep growing in quantity, complexity and required speed of response.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management(GSAM) announced it has entered into an agreement with Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management(DeAWM) to acquire DeAWM's stable value business, with total assets under supervision of $21.6 billion as of June 30, 2013

Mutual fund families have traditionally left the topic of how to allocate certain fund expenses to management and fund officers.