The performance benchmark for stocks in developing countries, the MSCI Emerging Market Index, has grown at almost 21% annually over the past three years.
An investment bank has launched DirectMarkets, a first-of-its-kind platform that directly links stock issuers with investors, in primary offerings of securities.
BlackRock announced today that its iShares Exchange Traded Funds has launched five funds focused on commodity producers. The funds offer the benefit of access to companies involved in the production of commodities without the costs found in commodity ownership.
Inflows picked up 68% to $11.6 billion, from the $6.9 billion posted the week before.
Franklin Templeton Investments ended the year with total assets under management of $670.3 billion, up $10.4 billion, or 2%, during the quarter.
Alternative assets. Alternative styles. Absolute return. Those are the three bases of John Hancock Mutual Funds newly launched effort to set itself apart as, in itself, an alternative to larger mutual fund creators, marketers and managers.
For a brief moment last year, the exchange-traded fund held in greatest value by investors had nothing to do with the Standard and Poor's 500. Or stocks of publicly traded companies of any sort.
Fidelity Investments did something last week that a decade ago most likely was not imaginable-or feasible.
Money Management Executive is nearing its 20th year of operation. For two decades, the newsweekly has been providing top executives in the asset management business with the information and insight they need to get their jobs done effectively.
U.S. economic recovery already at hand, says MFS Chief Investment Strategist James Swanson.