Mutual-Fund Group Balances Its Political Books
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What a difference a midterm election makes -- or so it seems at some firms and trade groups scurrying to bolster their bipartisan credentials. But the folks at the Investment Company Institute, the trade association for the mutual fund industry, say their recent Democratic hire just maintains the...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is closing in on the last of a series of reforms to protect mutual fund investors. One involves the fee charged to investors to pay for marketing and distribution of fund shares, called a 12b-1 fee.
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Now your mutual fund can have religious principles, too.
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Are these mutual fund worries reasonable or overblown? A little of both.
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Lackluster equity fund performance has weighed on its results lately.
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With mutual funds, you usually get what you don't pay for.
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Investors are shunning stocks in favor of mutual funds.
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If a mutual fund can be said to be like a general store in the variety it can offer, then a fund of funds would certainly resemble a warehouse retailer, allowing investors to pick up enormous variety all under one roof.
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Despite perceptions to the contrary, index mutual funds really aren&#39;t all alike. They don&#39;t all invest in the same stocks or bonds, and they certainly don&#39;t all come with the same low expenses.
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The ouster of the president of California&#39;s public pension fund has raised questions about whether pension funds, endowments and other big activist investors will be able to keep wielding influence in corporate governance campaigns.
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Some 93 million Americans own shares of mutual funds, but many of these people have only vague ideas of how they work. Here are some common questions and the answers to them.
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Not three weeks ago, Sean Harrigan launched his crusade against corporate malfeasance from one of the most powerful pulpits of all: the presidency of CalPERS, America&#39;s largest pension fund with some $177bn in assets.
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Investors in the market for mutual funds may want to consider a promising alternative: shares of asset management companies that sell the funds.
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A lot of people got excited when Fidelity Investments said recently it was cutting fees on five index mutual funds. You heard talk about price wars with Vanguard Group, about a new ''low-cost leader&quot; in fund investing, and more.
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Plus, the trouble with your mutual funds.
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An increasingly popular choice when investing for retirement is using target-date, or life cycle, mutual funds.
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A month after federal regulators adopted sweeping new rules for mutual fund oversight, fund trustees remain concerned about their ability to serve as watchdogs over fund managers and others who handle investor money, a new survey shows.