The Markets

Standard&Poor’s global stock market review, The World by Numbers, indicates world markets registered one of the worst ever starts to a new year.

The Iowa Division of Insurance will be the first U.S. state regulator to implement an initiative designed to improve consumer understanding of fixed and indexed annuities.

AIM Investments has announced new management leadership for AIM Constellation Fund and AIM Technology Fund.

MFS Investment Management has launched the MFS Diversified Target Return Fund.

On Friday the Board of Directors of Dodge&Cox announced that the Dodge&Cox Stock Fund and Dodge&Cox Balanced Fund will reopen to new investors effective Monday, February 4, 2008.

If you’ve been asked in the past two weeks what to do about the market (and who hasn’t), I’m sure your response has been something along the lines...

Merrill Lynch&Co. has bought back from the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that included subprime mortgages.

The combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) rose in December by $36.3 billion, or 6.3%, to $608.4 billion, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds decreased by $30.4 billion, or 0.3%, to $12.04 trillion in December, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

Standard&Poor’s, CRISIL, and KLD Research&Analytics, a social and environmental research firm, have announced the launch of the S&P ESG India Index.

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FTSE Group, a global index company, and Yasaar Research on Wednesday launched the FTSE Shariah Global Equity Index Series.

Stock and bond mutual funds experienced net inflows of $47.2 billion in December and $376.3 billion for the year, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

Those with individual retirement accounts (IRA) tend to keep that money where it is for potential use later on in their retirements, according to a new Investment Company...

Standard&Poor’s has launched the S&P Dividend Opportunities Indices, two new indexes designed to “provide investors with exposure to high yielding stocks throughout the world.″

Demand from institutional investors for precise and often-custom made indexes to allow them to meet socially responsible investment (SRI) constraints could represent a significant revenue loss problem for...

A new study of the private equity market finds that securitization - bundled funds of publicly traded private equity firms - is changing the private equity asset class.

J.&W. Seligman&Co. Incorporated has announced that Seligman Time Horizon/Harvester Series has been renamed and the names of the funds in the series have also been changed.

Standard&Poor’s has launched a family of indices designed to model common arbitrage strategies in the financial markets.

401(k) participants had equities on their minds in December, according to the latest Hewitt 401(k) Index data.