Mutual funds

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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PIMCO Makes a Push into Equities; Credit Suisse Suspends High Volatility ETN; SEC Widens Probe of ETFs

This week, the age of the actively managed exchange-traded fund officially debuts.

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

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

State Street’s SPDR Morgan Stanley Technology ETF MTK announced that it had received a $108,328 payment from a class action settlement related to Juniper Networks, Inc. The SPDR has slightly more than 2.7 million shares outstanding, meaning that the payment will translate into just over 4 cents of gain per share.

Los Angeles, Calif.-based First Pacific Advisors is inviting its investors to spend a day at the beach with the firm. Specifically, the firm is holding its first Investor Day on Monday, May 21, at the Hotel Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica, Calif.

The Highland Credit Strategies Fund has changed its name to Pyxis Credit Strategies Fund.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $6.22 billion to $2.665 trillion in the week ended Feb. 22, the Investment Company Institute reported.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $6.22 billion to $2.665 trillion in the week ended Wednesday, Feb. 22, the Investment Company Institute reported.

Yorkville Capital Management said it created 11 sector indices and 4 composite indices that will track the performance of investment partnerships that get traded on public exchanges.