Mutual funds

What a neat run have exchange-traded funds had.

The TCW Group is readying an emerging markets fund to add to its short list of emerging markets funds.

The Nationwide Fund (NWFAX) is firing two sub-advisors and hiring another one to take their place.

Aristotle Capital Management is adding to its client service and marketing team. Catalina Llinás joins the firm as a managing director on the team.

Community Capital Management is expanding it’s northeastern presence with a new hire and a new office.

Montpelier, VT-based Sentinel Investments has liquidated its Sentinel Mid Cap II (SYVCX) Fund and transferred all of the fund’s assets into the Sentinel Mid Cap Fund (SNTNX), effective April 12.

New rules to reduce risk in money-market mutual funds will be proposed in the next two months by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which won’t be slowed by a leadership change, a commissioner said.

Vanguard reported that expense ratios have changed for three of its mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.

Broadridge today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has greenlighted 16 original patent claims as well as five new claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,122,635 (‘635 Patent’).

Vanguard last week reported that expense ratios have changed for three of its mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.

Guinness Atkinson Asset Management last week disclosed in a regulatory filing its first proposed exchange-traded fund: a dividend offering.

North Peak Asset Management has added a new fund to its family. The Duxbury, MA shop launched the Inflation Hedges Strategy fund (INHIX, INHRX) which will invest in asset classes that are sensitive to increases in inflation.

Vanguard is shaking up its government relations office.

New rules to reduce risk in money-market mutual funds will be proposed in the next two months by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which won’t be slowed by a leadership change, a commissioner said last week.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is getting social.

As a financial advisor to numerous types of clients, including recent retirees, I often think deeply about the issues my clients face in this market environment.

Pimco's 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF reported $204.1 million of inflows on April 8, the same day the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF recorded its second-biggest daily redemption since its inception more than five years ago, equal to about $378 million worth of shares, Bloomberg reports.

The job market in asset management may not be back to pre-crisis levels, but hiring will likely pick up after second quarter earnings reports, says recruiter George Wilbanks, president of Wilbanks Partners.

New York-based Krane Funds Advisors is prepping a series of passive exchange-traded funds to add to the growing list of ETF products in the market

Richard Weil, chief executive officer at Janus Capital Group had his compensation reduced 19% to $4.98 million in 2012 as investors withdrew $12.1 billion from the firm.