Mutual funds

Vanguard is switching indexes for five of its funds today.

Mutual funds that invest in U.S. stocks had another strong week, picking up $3.5 billion. They have now picked up $16.1 billion in a three-week period, a strong start after 25 weeks of declines.

Stock funds took in an estimated $6.35 billion in inflows for the week that ended Jan. 23, down 31% from the $9.2 billion they took in a week earlier. Still, the inflow is almost twice as large as a year earlier.

First, there was the Great Recession.

The TCW/Carlye deal is drawing ever closer and new rumors of more potential defections from the bond shop continue to swirl.

Mutual funds increased their assets by $174.3 billion to $13.047 trillion in December, according to the Investment Company Institute.

One of Wasatch Advisors' investment managers has been added as a portfolio manager on a flagship fund.

Aristotle Capital Management is adding new talent to its team.

Institutional investors are expected to increase their use of exchange-traded funds and institutional demand for fixed income ETFs are expected to rise, according to new findings from iShares.

Expense ratios have changed for 23 Vanguard mutual funds, according to a firm statement.

The 3-star rated ING International Value Fund is unloading two subadvisers at the end of March.

AdvisorShares is looking to launch a quartet of exchange-traded funds that will bet on gold utilizing local currencies.

Legg Mason Inc. is looking to reconfigure its office space.

F-Squared Investments this week announced that its assets under management topped $10 billion as of January 4, up from approximately $5.6 billion in the previous year.

Stadion Money Management has found itself a new distribution partner.

The Aquila Group of Funds has appointed Craig DiRuzzo as a regional sales manager focusing on the Tax-Free Fund of Colorado, a municipal bond fund that invests in Colorado’s municipal and state projects, and Aquila’s two nationally distributed mutual funds – Aquila Three Peaks High Income Fund and Aquila Three Peaks Opportunity Growth Fund.

State Street Global Advisors today marked the twentieth anniversary of the first exchange traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by reminiscing on the early years of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF.

Russell Indexes today launched the Russell High Efficiency Defensive Indexes, which it touts as “the first and only series of low volatility benchmarks to offer low targeted tracking error.”

Since the start of 2007, for instance, investors of all types have pulled $607.4 billion out of funds that invest in domestic stocks, according to the Investment Company Institute. In the same time, they've added $1.2 trillion to the coffers of bond funds. Will 2013 change this trend?

Ever popular ETFs finished 2012 on a strong note.