Mutual funds

New research from NerdWallet, a personal finance site, is making a tough case for active managers to justify their fees.

A team of former TCW Group equities analysts have joined DoubleLine Capital portfolio managers Husam Nazer and Brendt Stallings managing the DoubleLine Equity LP investment strategies.

The Cyprus crisis seems to have the entire world gasping, including equity mutal fund investors.

PALM DESERT, Calif.-Norm Champ, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, last week took the first steps in meeting and speaking with members of the Investment Company Institute.

The Cyprus crisis seems to have the entire world gasping, including equity mutal fund investors.

The T. Rowe Price Group Inc.'s CEO James Kennedy and Chairman Brian Rogers each enjoyed a healthy jump in their compensation in 2012.

American Century Investments has added Radu Gabudean to the portfolio management team, responsible for the firm’s multiple asset allocation strategies.

Hartford Funds has named Eric Levinson senior national account manager, responsible for developing and strengthening the relationships with Hartford Funds' largest broker dealer clients and coordinating relationship management with sales, marketing, product and operations.

Eagle Asset Management is making a sub-advisory change for its Eagle Capital Appreciation Fund.

Market Vectors ETF Trust has launched the Market Vectors Treasury-Hedged High Yield Bond ETF (THHY) to bet long on high-yield corporate bonds and shorting Treasury notes.

ICI Global has hired Elizabeth Todd as Director of Global Legal Affairs. Todd hails from the Financial Services Authority, where she was the Alternative Investment Funds Management Directive policy lead on the investment funds team.

Are mutual fund wholesalers and advisors under-stressed and overpaid? Well, the folks at U.S. News & World Report seem to think so.

Investors were down on the municipal bond market for a third straight week as $261 million poured out of weekly reporting muni bond mutual funds for the week of March 20.

Are mutual fund wholesalers and advisors under-stressed and overpaid?

U.S. exchange-traded fund assets rose $2.49 billion to $1.408 trillion in February, according to Investment Company Institute.

Plan sponsors are increasingly turning to outsourced or discretionary investment solutions for their funds post the global financial crisis, according to Tim Barron, chief investment officer for consulting firm Segal Rogerscasey.

FUSE Research is getting wise on Europe.

Financial advisors vary greatly in their approach and use of written investment policy statements with their clients, including some who don’t use these statements at all, according to Russell Investments’ latest quarterly survey of U.S. advisors.

Sentinel Investments has promoted three of its portfolio managers.

For the week ended March 13, investors steered a paltry $1.64 billion into bond funds, a whopping 74% drop from the $6.42 billion they poured into the funds a week earlier.