The Markets

Looks like Bill Gates will have to 'shop around.'

Over the past 12 months, assets of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) increased $110.99 billion (34.4%), according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

The latest Russell Investment Group poll of U.S. money managers finds an optimistic outlook tempered by concerns about conditions that could cause a market stumble.

A recently released white paper from JPMorgan Asset Management Group suggests most industry assumptions for target-date funds are oversimplified.

More than two-thirds of major mutual fund companies have negative customer loyalty scores, according to a recent study by Cogent Research.

However, their sense of the next six months for other economic indicators is mixed.

Asset allocation funds offer a tremendous opportunity for all involved, including advisers, investors and the industry, said Jim Tracy, National Sales Director of The Hartford Mutual Funds.

“Terrible Tuesday,″ February 27, 2007, “wasn’t the big one,″ it was just a squall, according to Quincy Krosby, Chief Investment Strategist at The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

If your email has been as plagued with stock “tips″ as much as mine, you’ll be happy to know that the SEC is on the case.

AIM Investments has launched a series of six target-date maturity portfolios that feature actively managed mutual funds.

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) grew by about 2.1% in February to $431 billion, according to a new report from State Street Global Advisors (SSgA).

In response to the rapid growth of investor interest in emerging markets and foreign exchange as asset classes in recent years, AIG Financial Products Corp (AIG-FP) has launched...

Janus Capital Group Inc. subsidiary Enhanced Investment Technologies LLC (INTECH) has announced the launch of its Collared Long/Short (120/20) strategy, which will be available to both U.S. and...

Combined assets of the nation's mutual funds increased by $152.8 billion, or 1.5%, to $10.56 trillion in January, according to the Investment Company Institute's (ICI) survey of the...

Advisers have many criteria to examine when helping clients select the right asset allocation fund.

The assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) climbed 2% to $431 billion in January, up 34.8% for the year.

Hard to believe, but the Standard&Poor’s 500 index will celebrate its 50th anniversary/birthday this weekend.

Investors increasingly turn to income investments and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. has launched two new series of actively managed account portfolios.

People with annuities show fewer symptoms of depression.