Mutual funds

San Francisco, Calif-based Forward Management, LLC today unveiled its latest offering, the Forward Managed Futures Strategy Fund, a systematic, trend-following vehicle that will bet long and short exposure on liquid futures contracts in commodities, equities, bonds and currencies.

lients of RidgeWorth Investments will now be able to access a variety of functions and data from their investment accounts thanks to a new application available for the iPad.

Putnam Investments today named Scott C. Sipple as head of investment product management and development, responsible for overseeing the firm’s equity, fixed income and global asset allocation product management and development teams.

M&T Bank and Wilmington Trust have reorganized the MTB Group of Funds and Wilmington Funds into one fund family one year after their merger and two months after M&T bank revealed plans to merge its brand its funds with the Wilmington moniker.

Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO of the Investment Company Institute, said the SEC has “pre-judged” the results of the 2010 round of reforms to money market mutual funds. And that a second round will undermine funds altogether.

Van Eck Global has filed for permission from the SEC to create exchange-traded fund share classes of at least one of its five mutual funds.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. has doubled its sales force, to 220 staffers, serving financial advisors in an initiative to promote its exchange traded-fund products.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. has doubled its sales force, to 220 staffers, serving financial advisors in an initiative to promote its exchange traded-fund products.

Franklin Templeton Investments has unveiled an iPad app for its advisors and investors to access fund information and portfolio manager perspectives.

Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO of the Investment Company Institute, said Monday that the Securities and Exchange Commission has “pre-judged” the results of the 2010 round of reforms to money market mutual funds.

Pension fund managers should consider managing for a total outcome rather than focusing on the returns of individual strategies or asset classes to respond to the volatility and risk now plaguing their plans, according to a paper recently released by State Street Global Advisors.

Van Eck Global has filed for permission from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to create exchange-traded fund share classes of at least one of its five mutual funds.

BlackRock is looking to do some good while doing well at the same time with its latest values-based exchange-traded fund focusing on human rights.

The San Francisco company has not made it easy for fund families to work through its online platform, featuring five incompatible sites. That's about to change, with an Investment Manager Gateway.

Legg Mason, Inc. today reported preliminary assets under management of $638 billion as of February 29, 2012, an increase of up 1% and some $7 billion over January’s AUM. The firm managed $677 billion last March.

Nuveen Fund Advisors and GuideStone Funds garnered the top group honors at the 2012 U.S. Lipper Fund Awards.

The San Francisco company has not made it easy for fund families to work through its online platform, featuring five incompatible sites. That's about to change, with an Investment Manager Gateway.

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.-based Lighthouse Partners, a fund-of-hedge-funds and managed account investment adviser, has taken a minority stake in 361 Capital, a Denver-based provider of alternative investment mutual funds, separate accounts, and limited partnerships to institutions, financial intermediaries, and high-net-worth investors.

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