Investments

The Securities and Exchange Commission's new leader, Mary Jo White, will bring her years of experience as a federal litigator before the fund industry this week as its members try to judge whether she will propose reforms that could cripple the marketplace.

With tax season having passed, muni industry watchers anticipate the outflows to fade soon and interest beyond the front end of the yield curve to rise.

Even when the long-term market trend is defined by falling inflation-adjusted prices, despite short-term ups and downs, there may be opportunities to root out profits.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's new leader, Mary Jo White, will bring her years of experience as a federal litigator before the fund industry this week as its members try to judge whether she will propose reforms that could cripple the marketplace.

Oppenheimer Funds is set to roll out a new look on May 1. The new imaging reveals a modernized retail brand, which will continue to be known as OppenheimerFunds, and a new institutional brand, OFI Global Asset Management.

iShares has registered a U.S. equities factor-based ETF called the MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF. The fund will add to the company’s lineup of factor-based ETFs that track MSCI Indexes rolled out earlier this month.

46% of investors chose the U.S. as the country they believed offered the best potential for asset price growth over the next 12 months. Only 42% chose China.

Invesco has made some changes to the portfolio management teams of Invesco Dynamic Credit Opportunities Fund (VTA) and Invesco Senior Income Trust (VVR).

Nasdaq OMX Group said it expects the re-launch of its PSX exchange as an exchange-traded fund marketplace to take place in May.

BNY-Mellon won a top ETF industry honor, for the seventh consecutive time. The firm took home the award for 2012 “Best Service Provider – The Americas” at the ninth annual Global ETF Awards.

iShares will close and liquidate the iShares Diversified Alternatives Trust, according to a letter to shareholders.

Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Jo White is pushing to adopt a rule allowing hedge funds to advertise in a move consumer advocates say could fail to protect unsophisticated investors, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The investment opportunity in the United States is really "a tale of two countries," banking analyst Meredith Whitney said at the IMCA annual conference in Seattle.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's new leader, Mary Jo White, will bring her years of experience as a federal litigator before the fund industry this week as its members try to judge whether she will propose reforms that could cripple the marketplace.

The boutique purveyors of the mutual fund world have different branding and distribution challenges than their larger asset management counterparts.

Assets of all exchange-traded funds rose in March by $37.54 billion, or 2.7%, to $1.446 trillion, according to the Investment Company Institute.

IMCA’s annual conference kicks off in Seattle on Monday with lessons for financial advisors from behavioral finance professor Meir Statman.

San Antonio-based USAA Investments, a provider of mutual funds and insurance products to members of the U.S. military, is currently prepping the USAA Target Retirement 2060 Fund to launch in July 2013.

The MFEA launched a new group within its executive council: the Product Management Council (PMC).

American Century Investments has named former BlackRock/Barclays Global Investors executive Vinod Chandrashekaran senior vice president and director of quantitative research.