Mutual funds

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.

Interest rate and credit risk continue to invade investor portfolios looking for an appropriate hedge against equity investments.

What do buyers of ETFs hate more than high expense ratios and trade commissions? Hidden fees.

loomberg -- Measures affecting Dodd-Frank Act requirements won’t move forward in Congress while the government remains shut down, according to two Republican leadership aides.

Mutual fund families have traditionally left the topic of how to allocate certain fund expenses to management and fund officers.

BNY Mellon has announced the launch of an enhanced distribution "waterfall" capability as part of its private equity fund services.

Bloomberg -- Bank of America Corp., the second- largest U.S. lender by assets, completed the merger of its Merrill Lynch & Co. subsidiary into the parent company to simplify the corporate structure.

Bloomberg -- Pimco's Bill Gross said the U.S. will avoid a “catastrophic” default on Treasury securities even if lawmakers fail to extend the debt limit on the nation’s debt.

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.

Bloomberg -- A partisan stalemate that partially shut down the U.S. government may lessen the appetite of lawmakers for risking a debt default later this month.

Bloomberg -- Most U.S. oversight of financial markets and institutions will continue to operate as usual during a government shutdown because most regulators are funded with independent revenue.