Mutual funds

Bill Gross’s Pimco Total Return Fund (PTTRX), the world’s largest mutual fund, absorbed a record $9.9 billion in net redemptions last month as investors fled bonds in anticipation of the Federal Reserve scaling back its purchases.

BlackRock this week finalized its buy of Credit Suisse's exchange traded funds business, in a move that makes BlackRock's iShares platform the largest in the region.

Update -- Andrew McMenigall and Toby Wallace, two executives at Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, were killed in a traffic accident while taking part in a charity bicycle ride across Britain.

Global exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products last month experienced outflows for the first time in two years losing $3.98 billion.

In investors' epic search for yield, one strategy in particular has risen to the top this year: loan participation mutual funds and ETFs.

Investors yanked $28.54 billion from long-term mutual funds were $28.54 billion for the week ended Wednesday, June 26, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Aberdeen Asset Management is mourning the loss of Andrew McMenigall, a senior investment manager in the global equity team based in Edinburgh, Scotland and Toby Wallace, a senior relationship manager in its Philadelphia office, who were yesterday involved in a fatal cycling accident in Cornwall, England.

Investors yanked $28.54 billion from long-term mutual funds were $28.54 billion for the week ended Wednesday, June 26, according to the Investment Company Institute.

In investors' epic search for yield, one strategy in particular has risen to the top this year—loan participation mutual funds and ETFs.

Acquisitions are on the mind ofJeff Montgomery, who took over the helm of AFAM Capital at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

By now, the Securities and Exchange Commission's newly-minted Chair Mary Jo White must be inundated with advice on how to succeed at her job from sources near and far.

Asset management deal activity rose during the first four months of this year as compared to a year earlier, according to a new report by Freeman & Co.

Larkspur, Calif.-based Litman Gregory Asset Management has hired Meredith Shuey Etherington as senior investment advisor, providing investment advisory services to individuals, family groups, foundations, and endowments.

Asset management deal activity rose during the first four months of 2013 over the same period in 2012, according to a new report by Freeman & Co.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Julie Riewe and Marshall Sprung as co-chiefs of the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit, a national specialized unit that focuses on misconduct by investment advisers, investment companies, and private funds.

Mark Henneman and Ronald Kaliebe have been named lead managers of the Mairs & Power Growth Fund and Mairs & Power Balanced Fund respectively, effective July 1.

Non-traditional investment allocations in defined contribution plans, while commonplace in defined benefit pension portfolios, are a rare sight in today's retirement plan lineup.

Franklin Resources, the parent of Franklin Templeton Investments, is readying its first multi-manager alternative mutual fund almost a year after buying a majority stake in K2 Advisors Holdings, a fund of hedge funds manager, from private equity shop TA Associates.

Eighty percent of investors under the age of 40 don’t feel like they are getting adequate financial advice from their advisors, according to new findings from Cerulli Associates, leaving the doors wide open for asset managers and retirement plan recordkeepers to fill the advice gap.

The TCW Group has launched the TCW Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Opportunities Fund (TGMAX/TGMEX), which will bet on sovereign and corporate bonds denominated in U.S. dollars, local currency debt and equities.