Investments

Global exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products last month experienced outflows for the first time in two years losing $3.98 billion.

Total assets in municipal bond funds rebounded after a week of record outflows, even as investors continued to redeem their cash for the sixth week in a row.

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It looks like Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company will have its day in court come January 2014 to defend itself against a mutual fund lawsuit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has put alternative mutual funds on notice after ruling in favor of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by upholding its recent amendments to Rule 4.5 that will require mutual funds that bet on gold, oil or other commodities to register as commodity pool operators.

Last month, State Street Global Advisors revealed numerous changes meant to modify its core teams in the traditional asset space.

One of China's biggest asset managers is looking to bring China and Asia-focused mutual funds to U.S. institutional and retail investors.

Mutual fund liquidations have risen within the first six months of 2013 compared to the same period last year.

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds are both pooled investment solutions that can successfully offer an advisor's strategies to a larger group of investors.

Bill Gross’s Pimco Total Return Fund (PTTRX), the world’s largest mutual fund, absorbed a record $9.9 billion in net redemptions last month as investors fled bonds in anticipation of the Federal Reserve scaling back its purchases.

BlackRock this week finalized its buy of Credit Suisse's exchange traded funds business, in a move that makes BlackRock's iShares platform the largest in the region.

Update -- Andrew McMenigall and Toby Wallace, two executives at Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, were killed in a traffic accident while taking part in a charity bicycle ride across Britain.

Global exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products last month experienced outflows for the first time in two years losing $3.98 billion.

In investors' epic search for yield, one strategy in particular has risen to the top this year: loan participation mutual funds and ETFs.

Investors yanked $28.54 billion from long-term mutual funds were $28.54 billion for the week ended Wednesday, June 26, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Aberdeen Asset Management is mourning the loss of Andrew McMenigall, a senior investment manager in the global equity team based in Edinburgh, Scotland and Toby Wallace, a senior relationship manager in its Philadelphia office, who were yesterday involved in a fatal cycling accident in Cornwall, England.

Investors yanked $28.54 billion from long-term mutual funds were $28.54 billion for the week ended Wednesday, June 26, according to the Investment Company Institute.

In investors' epic search for yield, one strategy in particular has risen to the top this year—loan participation mutual funds and ETFs.

Acquisitions are on the mind ofJeff Montgomery, who took over the helm of AFAM Capital at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

By now, the Securities and Exchange Commission's newly-minted Chair Mary Jo White must be inundated with advice on how to succeed at her job from sources near and far.