January 24, 2012 - BATS Global Markets said the iShares MSCI Norway Capped Investable Market Index Fund will begin trading today on BATS Exchange, the first of nine new exchange traded funds sponsored by BlackRock to begin trading on the Exchange beginning this week.
January 23, 2012 - Exchange-traded funds are like stocks and mutual funds. Except they're not. Here's a glossary on how ETFs really operate.
January 19, 2012 - Investors steered $1.43 billion into stock mutual funds during the week ended Wednesday, Jan. 11, breaking a near nine-month spell of investor redemptions that totaled more than $172 billion.
January 16, 2012 - Muni bond mutual fund flows have remained positive in recent weeks. In what marked the fifth consecutive week of positive flows, weekly reporting funds gained $523 million to $271.8 billion in the week ended Jan. 4.
January 5, 2012 - Investors pulled more than $125 billion out of mutual funds that invest long-term in stocks last year.
January 5, 2012 - Investors added $117.6 billion to their holdings in exchange-traded funds in 2011. That is almost identical to 2010, when they added $118.7 billion, and 2009, when they added $119.4 billion.
January 4, 2012 - Investors pulled $5.22 billion from equity funds, with nearly $4 billion leaving domestic equity funds.
January 3, 2012 - Investors pulled a net $37.97 billion out of mutual funds in November, according to the Investment Company Institute. Most of the outflows throughout the month came from equity funds and most of the inflows were posted by money market and fixed-income funds.
December 28, 2011 - Whether they will return to equities in January remains to be seen, TrimTabs says.
December 20, 2011 - Lord Abbett, DWS, Mainstay, Primerica and Transamerica also emerged as leaders in customer service for 2011.
December 12, 2011 - And 39% of asset managers foresee workforce growth in the coming year, a Russell Reynolds survey finds.
December 12, 2011 - This is a 67% decline from the $246 billion that long-term funds took in during 2010, and a 78% drop from the $374 billion in net inflows in 2009, Strategic Insight reports.
December 12, 2011 - In nearly 90% of high-net-worth households, women are either the sole decision maker or equal partners in decisions on charitable giving, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey.
December 8, 2011 - As part of its efforts, The Hartford is making Wellington sub-advisor to all of its equity and fixed income funds.
December 7, 2011 - Equity funds had outflows of $9.63 billion, while bond funds took in $1.16 billion for the week ended Nov. 30, the Investment Company Institute said.