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Tips on What to Look for When Choosing Target-Date Mutual FundsBOSTON | Target-date mutual funds are supposed to simplify investment planning by automatically dialing down risk as you approach the day when you can finally call yourself retired. Read More... |
CP market perks up as firms tap mutual funds to reduce costs
Business Standard IndiaThe issuance of commercial papers (CPs) has shot up in the past few months with many big companies tapping mutual funds (MFs), which are flush with funds. The firms wanted to reduce their working capital costs by raising money via CPs issued to these funds.
Investors still losing suits vs. funds
Boston HeraldInvestors frustrated by losses in their mutual funds have always hoped to get a pound of flesh back from the fund managers. Alas, suing funds and fund managers typically...
Fidelity Leads Industry in Top-Rated Funds
TheStreet.comFidelity offers more top-rated mutual funds than any other fund company, according to TheStreet.com Ratings.
Short View: The return of mutual funds
Financial TimesStocks have been rallying for six weeks. Who is buying and what have they bought? For the first time in a decade, the marginal investor, who has the biggest impact on any day, may be a mutual fund manager, required to buy only equities and not to sell short.
Mutual funds’ asset base swells 11.5% in April
The HinduMumbai, May 5 The mutual fund industry has recorded an 11.5 per cent growth in asset base in April, most of it due to large inflows from banks into short-term liquid schemes.
Funds weed out firms linked to human-rights violations
The Star-LedgerThe financial disclosures investors get in the mail from mutual fund companies don't normally capture Nancy Prindle's attention. Then again, the dry brochures rarely delve into anything as gripping as the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region -- a topic that...
Get ready for mutual funds to boost some of their fees
The Sarasota Herald-TribuneWhere are the incentives to invest? These days, automakers are slashing thousands off sticker prices and offering zero percent financing to win over recession-weary consumers. So why not mutual fund companies? You might hope they would trim the expenses they charge to manage your money. After all, it would ease the pain after the beating your...
Canadian mutual funds continued to surge in April
National PostCanadian investment funds continued to surge in April, with 20 of 24 indexes tracked by Morningstar Canada matching their performance in March by gaining at least 5%, the mutual-fund research firm reported Monday.
Exxon Mobil activists appeal to mutual funds
Houston ChronicleA group of Exxon Mobil shareholders is appealing to investors in the nation’s biggest mutual funds to help change the oil giant’s approach to environmental issues
Mutual-fund expense ratios are on the rise
Seattle TimesA recent review by Morningstar, a company that tracks mutual funds, has found expense ratios are on the rise because of a drop in fund assets linked to the stock-market crash.