Mutual funds

State Street Global Advisors has launched two equity exchange-traded funds designed to track MSCI Global Equity Indices, with one focusing on emerging markets and the other widely covering both developed and developing countries.

After a strong start in February, domestic stock mutual funds saw cash outflows of $322 million in the most recent weekly statistics.

Larry Fink wants the asset management industry and government to take the lead in propping up investors’ morale in a flagging market.

Investors have not yet fully recovered their faith in long-term U.S. mutual funds, but the cash outflow in January was not nearly as bad as the previous month.

This is the week that actively managed exchange-traded funds get their biggest booster shot since they first arrived, less than five years ago.

Hungry for healthier returns, more mutual funds are investing in commodities, commodity futures, swaps and options.

Mutual fund firms such as Vanguard and Fidelity Investments are finding themselves at the top of the Kasina Social Media Index.

On Feb. 14, Vanguard's 64,000 Facebook fans received virtual candy hearts with the messages:

Institutional investors continued the pattern established late in 2011 of reducing allocations to equities, according to results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index for February 2012.

American Beacon Advisors has added to its offerings two growth funds, one focused on small-caps and the other mid-caps, managed by Stephens Investment Management Group.

The chief economist of The Dreyfus Corporation said Wednesday that world growth will slow down again in 2012, based on International Monetary Fund calculation methods.

Joshua Levine, a former head of the America’s institutional sales team at The Permal Group, has joined BlackRock to lead the firm’s public and corporate pension plan effort in the East Coast.

Hungry for healthier returns, more mutual funds are investing in commodities, commodity futures, swaps and options.

There’s a new authority watching over faculty and staff on campus at Wellesley College.

Value Line’s mid-cap growth equity fund, the Value Line Premier Growth Fund, recently won a five-star overall rating from Morningstar.

BlackRock’s exchanged traded-fund arm, iShares, has launched two new dividend equity funds focusing on emerging markets as well as the developed markets of the Asia/Pacific region.

Bloomberg introduced what it called a “step change” in its core business, known as the Bloomberg Professional market data service.

That amounts to two-thirds of the value gained in the past year. And was driven by interest in and appreciation of … domestic stocks.

Market Vectors, the exchange traded product arm of Van Eck Global, has launched a new exchange traded fund designed to tap into the growing oil and natural gas sector.

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