Mutual funds

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.

Total stock and bond mutual fund and ETF assets distributed by independent/regional broker-dealers and registered investment advisors grew at more than twice the rate compared to the wirehouse channel during 2012, according to newly released data from Access Data.

Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $11.85 billion for the week ended Wednesday, March 6, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Eight mutual fund companies have been named Best In Group, winning the 2013 Lipper Fund Awards for the U.S., with TIAA-CREF and Delaware Management Company collecting the top group awards.

A year ago, Ira Cohen would await the delivery a week or so ahead of time of a 1,000-page binder of agenda items and background to prepare for board meetings of the Valued Advisers Trust.

Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $11.85 billion for the week ended Wednesday, March 6, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Total stock and bond mutual fund and ETF assets distributed by independent/regional broker-dealers and registered investment advisors grew at more than twice the rate compared to the wirehouse channel during 2012, according to newly released data from Access Data.

Returns may have been good, but revenue growth overall was weak among asset management firms in 2012.

Nationwide Funds Group, the mutual fund business of Nationwide Financial, has added five new wholesalers to its sales team.

Janus Capital Group, the money manager that made its name placing big bets on stocks, is trying something new to stem a five-year customer exodus.

New may not always be better, but it is what the retirement industry needs right now.