Tag: Equities

Goldman Sachs Asset Management International announced the U.S. launch of the Goldman Sachs N-11 Equity Fund (Class A shares: GSYAX).

Standard & Poor's and Harel Financial Group launched a suite of sector indexes covering a range of companies within the Israeli equity market.

U.S. mutual fund investors added about $34 billion in net cash to U.S. stock and bond mutual funds in January 2011.

The quarterly "Schwab Survey of Investor Confidence" shows clear signs that investor confidence improved at the end of 2010.  

361° Capital, an investment management firm focused on managing alternative investments for institutions, has launched its first mutual fund, the 361° Absolute Alpha Fund.

Stifel Nicolaus' equity research will now be available to National Financial broker/dealers (B/Ds) via Streetscape, the online brokerage workstation.  

Investors worldwide contributed $40 billion of new cash flows to long-term mutual funds in November, two-thirds of which went to equity funds.

Manulife Asset Management named Walter T. McCormick and Emory W. Sanders, Jr.,to lead a new Boston-based Core Value Equity team.

Year-to-date, mutual funds globally raked in $804 billion, according to data from Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.

A federal judge has given final approval to an $8.5 million settlement of a long-running stop drop lawsuit.

Dow Jones Indexes has introduced a country classification system that will apply to all countries covered in its major index families.

With mixed November market results, 401(k) participants continued to transfer funds from fixed income investments into equities, according to the latest data from the Aon Hewitt 401(k) Index.

In its second annual survey on New Year’s resolutions, Allianz Life found that more Americans would rather enlist the help of a financial “trainer” than a physical trainer in...

MSCI Inc. announced the launch of Barra Portfolio Manager, which is designed to help fund managers and their teams manage, monitor and build better equity portfolios.

Stock and bond funds experienced net inflows of $40.2 billion in October, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

DWS Investments, the U.S. retail unit of Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management division, has announced a change in name and strategy for the DWS Europe Equity Fund.

Edge Asset Management in Seattle, Washington, announced Egor Rybakov has joined Edge as a portfolio manager for International Equity, effective December 1, 2010.

Cerulli Associates’ latest report predicts that wirehouse firms' managed account marketshare will fall to 50% by 2014. 

Putnam introduced its new online Wealth Management Center that features commentary on a variety of financial planning subjects, among other features.

The median return of the BNY Mellon Master Trust Universe was 8.48% for the third quarter of 2010, reversing course from the -4.87 % return reported for Q2.