The organization says its less expensive and simpler than an automatic IRA.
The theme is: Stop just investing and start Vanguarding.
Serravalli is heading the new unit, whose model has already been in testing for the past few months.
The research firm points to a 3% increase in wages and 9% jump in online job postings.
The company is planning both actively managed and index-based ETFs.
NEW YORK -- Experts predict equities and equity mutual funds could have a double-digit rally later this year -- if investors respond as they should and flee a future correction in the bond market. Retail and institutional investors still leery of the stock market have been pumping billions of dollars a week into municipal bond funds (see related story, page one), causing bond prices to soar and stock prices to struggle, but some portfolio managers say they're worried that the natural balance between stocks and bonds has swung off-kilter and may be headed for a short-term price correction.
Investors continue to stuff municipal bond mutual funds with cash, supporting bond prices even as by some measures they are nearly as expensive as they have ever been. Early last month, it appeared fund flows had finally slowed down. Cash was landing in municipal funds at a rate of less than $1 billion a week for the first time in six months. Now it appears that may have just been a blip.
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Being owned by a bank has handcuffed many mutual fund units. Just don't tell that to JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s J.P. Morgan Funds. The unit increased its assets under management 6.97% last year to $445 billion and now has its sights set on developing more assets through banks to move up the rankings from the 10th-largest fund company to become one of the top five.
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