Investments

Neuberger Berman Group has announced it will begin offering a zero-sales-charge share class.

Denver-based Cambiar Investors will close the Cambiar Small Cap Fund (CAMSX) to new investors on April 30.

Putnam Investments LLC, the asset manager in its fifth year of a turnaround effort by Chief Executive Officer Robert L. Reynolds, introduced six new mutual funds, including two aimed at investors weary of stock swings.

Westwood Holdings Group last week announced that the Westwood Income Opportunity mutual fund has surpassed $1 billion in assets.

Rapidly changing U.S. demographics are ikely to render industry assumptions ineffective, Conning says. Protection gap offers potential for future growth.

Last year, Congress passed the JOBS Act, a new bill designed to foster the growth of startups. Hedge funds were particularly excited about the bill because it was expected to allow the SEC to form new rules for the industry. Jesse Marrus writes, in the months since the bill was passed, little has come from the JOBS Act. Hedge funds are still waiting to hear from the SEC, and investors are still jumping through hoops.

Company A last year pumped up its revenues by 44.6%-from a base of $108.2 billion.

Exchange Traded Concepts is in a good place right now.

The minutes from the most recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting have been poured over by countless pundits who have shown the same level of consensus that Congress has on the sequester.

Two brand name firms are extending their exchange-traded fund distribution venture. Fidelity Investments and BlackRock has teamed again up to bring iShares ETFs to Fidelity's army of investors.

Well, it sounded like a good deal.

Naperville. IL-based Calamos Investments is prepping its Long/Short Fund to launch in the next month or so.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today published a guidance update to clarify what mutual funds and other investment advisors can say on their social media sites.

Forward Funds is liquidating a pair of alternative mutual funds.

And the winners of the Lipper Fund Awards 2013 US are?

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $5.32 billion to $2.652 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, March 13, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Municipal bond mutual funds saw outflows for a second straight week, at $133 million, as the market absorbed a large calendar with concessions.

As the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement and litigation activity in 2012 demonstrates, the agency's focus on municipal market enforcement has increased dramatically, and this trend seems likely to continue under the SEC's new leadership.

Total stock and bond mutual fund and ETF assets distributed by independent/regional broker-dealers and registered investment advisors grew at more than twice the rate compared to the wirehouse channel during 2012, according to newly released data from Access Data.

Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $11.85 billion for the week ended Wednesday, March 6, according to the Investment Company Institute.