The Markets

A new Standard and Poor’s study found that money fund managers are concentrating on safety and liquidity and downplaying yield.

At a time when the level of plan fees and the extent of their disclosure are a key issue in the retirement services space, a mutual fund trade...

IndexIQ has launched an asset management business that will be led by Austin “Gus″ Fleites, the former Chief Investment Officer and head of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) at ProShares.

In inflation everything gets more valuable except money

Standard&Poor’s said Tuesday the world’s emerging and developed equity markets posted negative returns in August, with emerging markets dropping 1.94% and developed markets giving back 0.36% over the...

U.S. listed ETF assets rose by approximately $23 billion in August with size, sector, style, and fixed income ETFs experiencing considerable asset growth.

Standard&Poor’s has launched the S&P National Municipal Bond Index.

Dow Jones Indexes has teamed up with sister entity Barron's to launch a new index.

Principal Funds is ramping up its investment only (IO) strategy aimed at third-party platforms.

Janus Capital Group Inc. has announced that Scott Schoelzel, portfolio manager of Janus Twenty Fund, will leave the firm at the end of 2007.

A month after suffering a $2.7-billion outflow, mutual funds ducked back into solid positive territory in July with $26.7 billion in inflows, according to data from the Financial...

Return-expectations and savings sufficiency can be more efficient benchmarks for target-date funds than are those used currently, according to a new paper from Vanguard Investment Counseling and Research.

Here we go - - - again.

Standard&Poor’s has launched two indexes providing investors with exposure to the top stock picks of Standard&Poor’s Equity Research analysts in Europe and the United States.

Lipper, Inc. announced changes to its global Lipper Leader rating system that it says will create a more flexible and marketing friendly set of icons that better suit...

Standard&Poor’s has launched three new Shariah-compliant indexes covering the Pan Arab region and publicly traded property companies in developed and emerging markets.

Standard&Poor’s has added the S&P Global Timber&Forestry Index, S&P Global Nuclear Energy Index, and S&P Global Alternative Energy Index to the group of S&P Global Thematic Indices.

Institutional investors have revived their use of commission payments for “soft dollar″ allocations, as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seems to have backed off its push to...

Emerging equity market returns continued to outpace developed market returns in July, according to Standard&Poor’s global stock market review, The World By Numbers.

A new study suggests lifetime income annuities are the most cost-effective and least risky asset class for generating retirement income that will last for an individual’s lifetime.