Mutual funds

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.

WHV Investment Management today announced that Andrew Turner will join the company as president and chief executive officer, replacing Judith Stevens who is retiring next month after more than three decades with WHV.

Emerald Asset Advisors is starting out the New Year with one less fund to worry about.

Southfield, MI-based Advance Capital Management’s Board of Directors today passed a resolution terminating the sub investment advisor relationship with Birmingham, MI-based Seizert Capital Partners.

Parametric Portfolio Associates, a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. (EV), and The Clifton Group Investment Management Company announced today the completion of the previously announced purchase of Clifton by Parametric.

Morningstar today gave props to a few funds that that the research firm said went from worst to first in 2012.

For the week ending Wednesday, December 26, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds reported net inflows of $3 billion, excluding the inflows of $18.2 billion to money market accounts, according to data from Lipper.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $28.39 billion to $2.665 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, December 26, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $28.39 billion to $2.665 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, December 26, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Morningstar has reaffirmed or identified 38 funds as Morningstar Medalists, giving out Gold ratings to 17 funds.

Federated Investors is looking to fold a 2-Star rated fund into a 4-Star rated fund.