Tag: Investment Managers

While November’s mutual fund inflow to fixed income still added up to $33 billion, that was down from the $40 billion pumped into bond funds for each of...

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., has launched two more of its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with low operating expense ratios and commission-free online trading in Schwab accounts.

DWS Investments, the U.S. retail unit of Deutsche Bank’s global Asset Management division, has appointed Gregory Troccoli and Robert Kendall as directors.

Strategic Insight, an Asset International company, and Coates Analytics, are collaborating on a series of quarterly reports to help investment management firms navigate the broker/dealer...

MFC Global Investment Management (MFC GIM) named Bradford G. Thomas as director of Consultant Relations.

Putnam Investments LLC will dismiss three fund managers as part of a broader move to cut 5% of its staff.

According to the latest ETF Snapshot report by State Street Global Advisers (SSgA), as of November 30, assets in the U.S. exchange-traded fund industry totaled approximately $739 billion,...

New York Life Investments said it is expanding its defined contribution investment only (DCIO) efforts through its lineup of stand-alone stable value products to third parties.

PIMCO announced that it hired Neel Kashkari, the former czar of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), as well as two portfolio managers from Franklin Templeton Investments.

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched its US Community Investing Index strategy.

Northern Trust's asset management arm, Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI), has selected seven emerging and minority/women-owned broker/dealers for its list of preferred equity trading partners.

Fidelity Investments has announced enhancements to its seven state-sponsored 529 College Savings Plans.

Transamerica Asset Management Group has introduced a new institutional share class to the Transamerica Funds lineup.

MFS Investment Management (MFS) has added three new members to its Defined Contribution Investments (DCI) group to focus its sales and relationship management efforts in various DCI market...

The Financial Research Corporation (FRC) predicts that if the market remains stable and does not go through another crisis within the next five years, sub-advised mutual fund and...

Family health problems have prompted an executive in Fidelity Investments’ workplace investing client management group to take a leave of absence starting at the end of the year,...

Target-date funds with high equity allocation at retirement have come under fire lately, but T. Rowe Price is sticking with its strategy.

While exchange-traded-fund (ETF) assets will continue to grow rapidly, ETF providers see 401(k) accounts as a continued challenge, according to Cerulli Associates.

With the new Roth Conversion laws set to go in place January 1, Fidelity Investments said it offers an online Roth IRA conversion calculator for its independent registered...