Mutual funds

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.

The largest purveyor of money market mutual funds in the United States this month told the Financial Stability Oversight Council that no further reform of such funds is necessary.

2013 is looking good so far for mutual funds.

PIMCO has launched the PIMCO Emerging Markets Full Spectrum Bond Fund (PFSIX), which it touts as a "one stop" fixed income strategy to bet on investment opportunities in the developing world.

For the week ended Feb. 20, investors steered an estimated $11.29 billion into mutual funds, down 11% from the previous week.

Franklin Templeton plans to open three new offices in Italy.

BlackRock today announced that its US-listed iShares Minimum Volatility suite of funds, which launched in October 2011, has crossed $4 billion in asset under management.

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Newfleet Asset Management, an affiliated manager of Virtus Investment Partners, has named Christopher Kelleher has been named senior managing director and head of institutional asset management.

BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, replaced portfolio managers at funds including those that invest in energy as it seeks to improve performance at actively run products.

Three American Century Investments portfolio managers are popping the champagne after their latest promotions.

Executive cash bonuses for the New York City securities industries are expected to jump by eight percentage points, rounding out to about $20 billion, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.

William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, today called out Charles Schwab & Co. for recently changing up its customer arbitration agreements by striking its investors’ ability to join class action lawsuits.