The Markets

F-Squared Investments, LLC, has launched an industry index portfolio dedicated to indexes constructed of a select number of actively managed mutual funds.

Zacks Investment Research, Inc. has launched a lifecycle index series, which includes four target retirement dates.

Morningstar, Inc., is revising the way it rates and ranks group variable annuities by comparing group variable annuities to open-end mutual funds rather than individual variable annuities.

The combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) increased by $18.25 million, or 3.7%, to $507.11 billion in August, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

A panel of industry professionals at PLANADVISER’s National Conference in Orlando, Florida, discussed the faults with defaults and how to remedy them.

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.

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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...