Mutual funds

Principal Global Investors is betting big on alternatives.

Russell Investments, which advises funds with $2.4 trillion in assets, will reclassify Greece to an emerging from a developed market, an unprecedented step taken after a recession reduced the nation’s economy by 20%.

Paul Schaeffer, managing director, Strategy & Thought Leadership, at alternative mutual fund shop Forward, is calling it quits after more than two years on the job, Money Management Executive has learned.

Continued demand for equity exchange-traded products booted ETP flows $47.1 billion, the strongest two-month total on record, according to BlackRock’s latest ETP Landscape Snapshot.

Are active exchange-traded funds just a gimmick? And is there a resolution in sight for any potential further reform of the money market mutual fund industry?

Should mutual funds be backing off on holdings in gun and armament makers?

While U.S. investors remained net purchasers of mutual fund assets for the week ended Feb. 27, political uncertainty seems to have shaken them somewhat.

Another money market fund is making its way toward the recycling bin.

Is there an actual fee war being waged among exchange-traded fund providers or are fees being adjusted merely according to standard operating procedure?

While U.S. investors remained net purchasers of mutual fund assets for the week ended Feb. 27, political uncertainty seems to have shaken them somewhat.

Are active exchange-traded funds just a gimmick? And is there a resolution in sight for any potential further reform of the money market mutual fund industry?

New York Life, the parent company of Mainstay Investments, has hired Don Desiderato as senior managing director and chief technology officer.

ALPS has launched the U.S. Equity High Volatility Put Write Index Fund (HVPW), which tracks the NYSE Arca U.S. Equity High Volatility Put Write Index.

Investors in Los Angeles–based FPA funds will be glad to hear that effective April 1, all of the FPA Funds will be available as no-load funds.

Annual reports, prospectuses, and statements of additional information from fund families provide information for investors that can be very instructive about their fund's relative tax efficiency.

Stock funds soar as grim forecasts prove overly pessimistic.

Scout Investments has found new leadership for its institutional distribution team.

First Trust Advisors has launched another actively managed ETF.

Vanguard today closed two funds to new investors while prepping another to launch in the second quarter.

Managed futures mutual funds? They are so 2012.