Mutual funds

In early May of 2013, Scottish firm Aberdeen Asset Management announced plans to run its first ever global brand advertising campaign.

"Buy a pool in March 2014," Fidelity Investments' FutureTimeline application tells users on Facebook.

In an environment of transparency and volatile capital markets, you would think exchange-traded fund vehicles would hold more of a percentage in the $3.6 trillion retirement plan marketplace.

One year after the “untimely” death of Richard Aster, founder of Larkspur, Ca.-based Aster Capital Investment Management, the investment advisor is selling off its assets.

John Hancock Funds has added Christopher Fuschillo as a managing director on its institutional sales team in a new position, calling on analysts and gatekeepers at major broker-dealer firms.

The ICI has a new director of Financial Services Policy.

OppenheimerFunds has promoted Art Steinmetz to president. He is currently executive vice president and chief investment officer, where he oversees all equity, fixed income and alternative investment capabilities including investment strategy, strategic planning and personnel.

Two of Vanguard largest funds: Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund (VGTSX) and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX) representing $343 billion in aggregate assets will begin tracking indexes of FTSE and the University of Chicago’s Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) on June 3.

Four iShares exchange-traded funds have new CUSIP numbers for “operational reasons,” according to BlackRock.

Rye, NY-based Teton Advisors has launched the TETON Westwood Mid-Cap Equity Fund (WMCEX) to bet on undervalued companies with market capitalizations between $1 billion to $20 billion.

Energy master limited partnerships produce somewhat predictable cash flows in up and down markets.

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Vanguard today launched the Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund, which is available in Investor, Admiral, and Institutional shares.

New Orleans-based St. Denis J. Villere & Company is adding another mutual fund to its roster.

Azzad Asset Management is widening the distribution of one of its funds.

Mutual fund assets inched up by $179.6 billion, or 1.3%, to $13.856 trillion in April, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Money market mutual fund assets increased by $12.20 billion to $2.613 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, May 29, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Henderson Global Investors' foray into the US market began at an inopportune time: It launched its first three funds on August 31, 2001, days before the September 11 attacks.

Alternative mutual funds are making their way into the market via mutual fund firms, hedge funds, private equity shops and now banks.

Hartford Funds has named Wellington Management Company’s Nanette Abuhoff Jacobson as global investment strategist.