Mutual funds

Morningstar named its 2012 U.S. Fund Manager of the Year award winners in the allocation, alternatives, domestic stock, international stock, and fixed income categories.

Flows to muni bond mutual funds, though still negative, recovered much of their lost ground over the previous two weeks.

William Frels and Mark Henneman, who run the $2.5 billion Mairs & Power Growth Fund, were named domestic stock-fund managers of the year by Morningstar Inc.

Cerulli's latest Retirement Edition is out, this time with insight into the development of institutional investment vehicles, particularly collective trust funds (CTFs).

Morningstar today unveiled its 2012 U.S. Fund Manager of the Year award winners in the allocation, alternatives, domestic stock, international stock, and fixed income categories.

Keith Reynolds has joined Segal Rogerscasey’s Atlanta office as a senior consultant.

Henderson Global Investors (North America) is expanding its mobile and social media strategy with a brand new and free iPad app.

Sandip Bhagat has resigned as head of Vanguard’s Equity Investment Group, according to a regulatory filing.

Prudential has added a new line-up of target-date funds for defined contribution plan participants.

Prudential has picked up a new line-up of target-date funds for defined contribution plan participants.

There's nothing quite like the feeling of coming out from under a guardian's wing.

Pioneer Investments has named David Glazer portfolio manager of Pioneer Global Equity Fund (GLOSX), effective December 31, 2012.

Leawood, KS-based Cognios Capital is breaking into the mutual fund space via an alternative offering.

Pioneer Investments has launched Class K shares of its mutual funds for defined contribution plans that are precluded from investing in mutual fund shares with Rule 12b-1 fees or sub-transfer agency fees as part of the expense ratio.

It turns out that iShares will not be raising fees on its exchange-traded funds anytime soon.

Bruce Karpati, chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division's asset management unit, has a few choice words for hedge funds looking to get into the mutual fund space.

DoubleLine Capital is starting the New Year with a pair of new hires from an old rival.

One analyst says it's time to separate bond fund classification strategies into distinct groups.

Fixed-income gained more ground, while the 14 best-performing equity mutual funds all focused on precious metals and enjoyed gains of more than 20% .

iShares is looking to ring in the New Year in a contrarian way.