Mutual funds

Morgan Stanley Funds Join Rivals in Shunning Some Treasuries

Invesco’s Woodford Leaving After 25 Years to Set Up Fund

Using mostly passive strategies results in lower fees and better performance, but there are cases where active management can add value.

Owned, Paid or Earned: The New Language of Marketing

U.S. Default Poses Low Risk to Money-Market Funds, Fitch Says

Hedged Equity ETFs Gain Steam

ETFs Becoming the 'It' Strategy for Institutions

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.

Rob Goldman founded Goldman Small Cap Research (GSCR)--not affiliated with Goldman Sachs--in 2009. He has over 20 years of investment and research experience as a senior research analyst and as a portfolio and mutual fund manager.

Innovation is a constant in any industry, but sometimes in the fund business its mark is not always obvious.

David Rainey likes to take the long view. He's held more or less the same job since 1998, even though the firms and managements around him have changed.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White met with leaders of the equities and options exchanges, FINRA, DTCC and the Options Clearing Corporation following the August 22 interruption in the trading of NASDAQ-listed securities.

For the last several years the investment management industry has seen a seismic shift towards outsourcing middle and back-office activities.

Executives at mutual fund companies, asset management companies and support providers rated client reporting--which included any reporting that is created for the purpose of distribution to clients--as their top challenge followed closely by risk management in Money Management Executive's third annual Operations Survey.

Bloomberg -- Treasuries fell for the first time in three days as U.S. lawmakers made progress on passing a budget and ending a partial government shutdown, curtailing demand for the relative safety of debt.

It's a rare day when a hedge fund manager admits he's never heard of an asset type. But that's just what Ray Schuville, a managing director and private client advisor at U.S. Trust, heard from a client earlier this year.

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.