Mutual funds

The Emerald Mutual Funds have made their way home to the investment advisory firm that founded the fund family in 1992.

Third-party administrator CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. today revealed it added the Alta Trust Tactical Advantage collective investment trust funds to its retirement plan platform.

It might sound elementary but legal eagles from some of the country’s biggest law firms convened today at the ICI Mutual Fund conference in Phoenix, A.Z. to drive home the importance of disclosure when it comes to mutual fund registration.

Omnibus accounts consolidate the trade activity of multiple shareholders in an investment vehicle into a handful of trades, making it difficult to identify individual shareholder activity. How do in-house counsel and mutual fund boards make sure that their omnibus accounts are on the up and up with regulators?

You may think your firm runs like a well-oiled machine. But what happens if you think again?

Financial services firms can get themselves caught in their own tracks on social media, worrying excessively about Securities and Exchange Commission rules on disclosures, marketing and communication, as well as Financial Industry Regulatory Authority guidelines. Here's what to do.

Because of its increasing complexity and impacts on financial firms beyond banks, firms that run registered investment funds are suggesting that the Volcker Rule gets ‘re-proposed’ before it goes into effect in July.

Because of its increasing complexity and impacts on financial firms beyond banks, firms that run registered investment funds are hopeful that the Volcker Rule gets ‘re-proposed’ before it goes into effect in July.

PIMCO and the Vanguard Group received the highest favorable ratings from prospective institutional investors amidst leading asset managers, according to a new study released by Cogent Research.

Most investment fund clients have no idea how much their investments are costing them in terms of management fees, commissions and other hidden costs, according to money manager Greg Phelps of Redrock Wealth Management.

Mutual fund research companies Access Data and Strategic Insight have entered into a partnership pooling together their resources for financial data gathering.

What exactly makes an alternative mutual fund “alternative”? According to Cindy Erickson Zarker, director at research firm Cerulli Associates, the definition of what constitutes an alternative investment fund has changed markedly since 2008.

Mutual funds may have been an American innovation, but asset managers will now go to China, Brazil, India or wherever returns can be found, said Alan Reid, founder of Forward Fund Management, at the Investment Company Institute’s Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference.

The Altman Group, an affiliate of American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, has rebranded to AST Fund Solutions, LLC and formally launched its new brand at the 2012 Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference held this week in Scottsdale, Arizona.

What exactly makes an alternative mutual fund “alternative”?

Mutual funds may have been an American innovation. But asset managers will now go to China, Brazil, India or wherever returns can be found, said Alan Reid, founder of Forward Fund Management, at the Investment Company Institute’s Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference.

ICI general counsel Karrie McMillan said it is “very interesting” that commissioner Elisse Walter indicates the SEC is ‘open to ideas’ on how to reform the money market fund industry.

What is “really lacking” in the cost-benefit analysis required of SEC rule-making by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act? Michael Downer has an idea. Cost-benefit analysis.

Most investment fund clients have no idea how much their investments are costing them in terms of management fees, commissions and other hidden costs, according to money manager Greg Phelps of Redrock Wealth Management.

Mutual fund research companies Access Data and Strategic Insight have entered into a partnership pooling together their resources for financial data gathering.