Mutual funds

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.

The vast majority of Americans ages 25+ with more than $200,000 in investable assets surveyed in the Allianz Life 2013 Investor Market Perceptions Study said they are seeking some form of protection from losses as they accumulate assets for retirement.

Bloomberg -- The Treasury Department said money managers could pose threats to the U.S. financial system when reaching for higher returns, herding into popular asset classes or amplifying price movements with leverage.

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

The most recent crop of alt fund contenders are performing like a classroom full of underachievers.

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

With Congress showing no sign of consensus, the looming threat of a government shutdown is instilling fear and unease among those from Main Street to Wall Street.

Bloomberg -- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is poised to get more than $2 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. stock through warrants acquired during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis.

Bloomberg -- Sovereign wealth funds, which control about $6 trillion of wealth globally, are boosting investments in alternative assets like real estate and private equity to boost returns, a survey by Invesco Ltd. found.

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.

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.