The Markets

Dow Jones Indexes and Wilshire Associates have announced that Bahrain, Kuwait and Sri Lanka will be added to the Dow Jones Wilshire Global index family.

Causing a stir among Wall Street pundits, the state of New Jersey’s $80-billion pension plan will take equity positions in both Citigroup and Merrill Lynch&Co. – both suffering...

State Street Global Advisors’ (SSgA) US-Listed ETF Industry Review and 2008 Outlook shows 2007 was a record year for exchange-traded fund (ETF) asset growth, trading volume, and product...

A Portland, Maine-based provider of environmental, social, and governance research, and consulting has released two new indexes aimed at faith-based investors.

Investors looking for a new measure of socially responsive portfolios can now tap into one that purports to track the performance of companies that adhere to Dharmic principles.

Fidelity Investments will reopen its widely known Magellan Fund to new investors as of Tuesday for the first time in a decade, the Boston financial services firm announced.

Mutual fund net sales will trend up by 2% annually, but investors will have to look elsewhere for the real significant growth, according to a new study.

Taking what he calls a “cautiously optimistic view for 2008,″ Bob Doll, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Global Equities at BlackRock, Inc., predicts that the U.S....

Standard&Poor’s has launched the S&P 500 Inverse Index, designed to provide investors with the inverse performance of the S&P 500.

Standard&Poor’s has launched a new investable index seeking exposure to environmentally responsible investment strategies.

Plan sponsors are confronted with a bewildering array of target-date funds - but lack a generally accepted benchmark for the popular product category.

Assets of all exchange-traded funds (ETFs) fell in November by $16.05 billion, or 2.7%, to $572.12 billion, according to data from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

2007 proved to be a landmark year with many milestones reached in the worldwide use of mutual funds, according to observations from Strategic Insights.

SBAuer Funds has launched the Auer Growth Fund (AUERX), which looks for stocks poised to double in value within a year.

Stock and bond mutual funds enjoyed a $502 million November asset inflow, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

With concerns about a deepening global credit crisis unabated, major U.S. financial institutions are increasingly turning to sovereign wealth funds for capital infusions.

Vanguard has launched three new index funds that seek to track the MSCI US Large Cap 300 Index, MSCI US Large Cap Growth Index, and MSCI US Large...

Janus Capital Group Inc has stopped accepting cash from new customers in three funds that invest in non-U.S. stocks.

Money managers have not let the credit concerns or a slowing U.S. economy shake their optimism for the 2008 market, according to Russell Investment’s quarterly survey of investment...

Batterymarch Financial Management, a Boston-based institutional equity manager, has launched a U.S. large capitalization value equity portfolio.