Mutual funds

Company A last year pumped up its revenues by 44.6%-from a base of $108.2 billion.

The Two Roads Shared Trust is prepping a managed futures offering to launch within the next few months.

Federal regulators would “like to codify exemptive relief” from provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, so they can focus on more innovative fund applications.

Putnam Investments expects investors to continue prioritizing risk mitigation and income generation in the current investing environment.

PALM DESERT, Calif – Is the Financial Stability Oversight Council out to undermine the Securities and Exchange Commission’s “role, independence, and democratic process”?

Norm Champ, the director of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, said the regulator will be asking “tough questions” of fund directors. A key focus: Are fund directors stretched too thinly, overseeing too many funds?

The general counsel for the advocacy group that represents the investment fund industry said Monday that financial transaction taxes harm investors, retirement savers, market operations, economic growth and investment returns.

The trade group will open an office in the center of finance and international business to gather “real-time information” about Asian markets.

Neuberger Berman Group has announced it will begin offering a zero-sales-charge share class.

Denver-based Cambiar Investors will close the Cambiar Small Cap Fund (CAMSX) to new investors on April 30.

Putnam Investments LLC, the asset manager in its fifth year of a turnaround effort by Chief Executive Officer Robert L. Reynolds, introduced six new mutual funds, including two aimed at investors weary of stock swings.

Westwood Holdings Group last week announced that the Westwood Income Opportunity mutual fund has surpassed $1 billion in assets.

Exchange Traded Concepts is in a good place right now.

The minutes from the most recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting have been poured over by countless pundits who have shown the same level of consensus that Congress has on the sequester.

Well, it sounded like a good deal.

Naperville. IL-based Calamos Investments is prepping its Long/Short Fund to launch in the next month or so.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today published a guidance update to clarify what mutual funds and other investment advisors can say on their social media sites.

Forward Funds is liquidating a pair of alternative mutual funds.

And the winners of the Lipper Fund Awards 2013 US are?

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $5.32 billion to $2.652 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, March 13, according to the Investment Company Institute.