Investments

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.

Eight mutual fund companies have been named Best In Group, winning the 2013 Lipper Fund Awards for the U.S., with TIAA-CREF and Delaware Management Company collecting the top group awards.

A year ago, Ira Cohen would await the delivery a week or so ahead of time of a 1,000-page binder of agenda items and background to prepare for board meetings of the Valued Advisers Trust.

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.

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.

Returns may have been good, but revenue growth overall was weak among asset management firms in 2012.

Nationwide Funds Group, the mutual fund business of Nationwide Financial, has added five new wholesalers to its sales team.

After hiring 3,597 full-time agents last year, New York Life is raising the ante, with a goal of adding 3,700 reps in 2013. Among the new hires, more than half are expected to be women or individuals who represent the “cultural markets,” as the company put it, referring specifically to the African-American, Chinese, Hispanic, Korean, South Asian, and Vietnamese communities.

Janus Capital Group, the money manager that made its name placing big bets on stocks, is trying something new to stem a five-year customer exodus.

New may not always be better, but it is what the retirement industry needs right now.

Janus Capital Group, the money manager that made its name placing big bets on stocks, is trying something new to stem a five-year customer exodus.