Mutual funds

Loomis Sayles is making a hasty name change to one of its funds after losing out on a federal lawsuit.

Tax-exempt money market funds lost $1.70 billion and total net assets declined to $268.31 billion in the week ended Sept. 3 -- the second consecutive week of significant losses, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled an administrative proceeding against two Portland, Oregon-based investment advisory firms regarding their failure to disclose a revenue-sharing agreement and other potential conflicts of interest to clients.

Forward has expanded its institutional and intermediary sales forces with a slew of new hires.

RiverNorth Capital Management today filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a new mutual fund—the RiverNorth/Oaktree High Income Fund.

The $5.5 billion Franklin Templeton Founding Funds Allocation last week got a Negative rating from research shop Morningstar.

Global assets invested in exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products reached a record $1.76 trillion through the end of August 2012.

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In a nod to the competitive pricing pressure roiling the financial services industry, Advisor Group, one of the largest independent broker-dealer networks in the nation, has eliminated, or drastically reduced, the mutual fund fees it was charging to clients of its financial advisors.

The pullout from domestic stock funds continued last week, to the tune of $3.7 billion. But bond funds got another big influx.

The pullout from domestic stock funds continued last week, to the tune of $3.7 billion. But bond funds got another big influx.

Keith Bernard, former Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales, at Pax World Management, has left the firm, Money Management Executive has learned.

Edward P. Owens, whose $22.4 billion Vanguard Health Care Fund has outperformed every U.S. equity mutual fund since it was created in 1984, will retire at the end of the year.

A long-time Vanguard portfolio manager is calling it quits after some 38 years in the business.

Neuberger Berman Group has appointed Brendan Gill as a senior vice president and head of national accounts in the firm’s Advisor Solutions Group, effective Aug. 30.

Chicago-based Thomas White Funds has launched three new classes of shares for two of its no-load, foreign equity funds—its flagship Thomas White International Fund (TWWDX) and the Thomas White Emerging Markets Fund (TWEMX).

In a nod to the competitive pricing pressure roiling the financial services industry, Advisor Group, one of the largest independent broker-dealer networks in the nation, has eliminated, or drastically reduced, the mutual fund fees it was charging to clients of its financial advisors.

After more than a year of battling it out in Washington, D.C., and around the country, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro called off her proposed second round of reform for money market mutual funds.

As investing in alternatives such as real estate, private equity funds, hedge fund strategies and commodities grow in popularity, the way these are being used by institutions and investment advisors is changing.