Mutual funds

For the week ended Dec. 5, investors pulled an estimated $5.84 billion from U.S. funds, bringing total outflows for the year to more than $136 billion.

OppenheimerFunds is ringing in the holiday season in a geeky but philanthropic way.

Fidelity Investments is lowering investment minimums on 22 equity, fixed income and enhanced index funds, and slashing total net expenses on eight of its Spartan Index funds.

Following the Malvern, Pa., company's announcement of 300 new hires in its Arizona office, the mutual fund giant has announced 354 new positions for its Pennsylvania and North Carolina offices as well.

The Vanguard Group is doing its part in bringing down the national unemployment rate.

Fidelity Investments is taking inspiration from sale season.

Huntington Asset Services is looking to boost its sales team.

Mutual funds must identify themselves as legal entities involved in swaps and other financial transactions. But how to pay to register?

Active exchange-traded fund purveyor AdvisorShares is launching the AdvisorShares Pring Turner Dow Jones Business Cycle (DBIZ) ETF on Dec. 19.

Guinness Atkinson Asset Management has re-launched its mutual funds website, streamlining the presentation of its investor resources such as each fund’s investment philosophy and approach, investment management team, portfolio details and fund literature.

US ETF assets totaled $1.3 trillion as of November 30, 2012 – up 24.2% year-to-date, according to State Street Global Advisors’ latest ETF Snapshot.

Mutual funds may have tough times ahead, in remaining the investment of choice for a new generation of Americans. Their bread and butter: Older investors. Their weak spot: Investors under 35.

Financial advisors and investors now see value of investing in managed futures, particularly in times of market stress.

Looks like eight Tennessee-based mutual fund directors bent the rules too far.

Exchange-traded funds saw inflows of $15.6 billion in November bring year-to-date inflows to $154.0 billion, putting them on track to match or exceed 2008’s record-setting inflows of $168.3 billion, according to data from Morningstar.

PIMCO's scored a patent.

It looks like Carlyle Group's planned acquisition of TCW Group from Societe Generale will not be sidetracked by an arbitration case filed by former TCW unit, EIG Global Energy Partners, had sought to block the sale.

Mutual funds may have tough times ahead, in remaining the investment of choice for a new generation of Americans. Their bread and butter: Older investors. Their weak spot: Investors under 35.

Fidelity Investments, the firm that lost its position as the biggest U.S. funds provider after ignoring exchange-traded products for years, is seeking to open an actively run ETF lineup starting with a corporate bond fund.

The holidays have been good for money market funds.