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- Fund launches petering out; down 60%; New offerings slid to 260 in 2004, from 729 in 2000.(News)
- Byline: Frederick P. Gabriel Jr. BOSTON - Mutual fund company executives are making fewer trips to the launching pad. Fewer new mutual funds hit the market last year than in any other year going back at...
- Research articles 2005-03-07
- At Issue - Market-timing policy: Keep it simple, please.(Opinion)
- One of the real bright lights in the recent SEC mutual fund reform proposals is the call for fund firms to define their market-timing policies with specificity. While a few have fairly well-defined exchange policies, almost all are struggling ...
- Research articles 2004-02-09
- Fund governance reg may downsize boards; Funds that complied are unlikely to revert if rule is scrapped.(News)
- Byline: Sara Hansard WASHINGTON - Whether or not the controversial mutual fund governance rule is allowed to go into effect, fund company experts and lawyers say that small and midsize fund companies might simply reduce the number of "in ...
- Research articles 2005-07-11
- Ticket (charge) blitz at AmEx: own funds to carry trading fees now.
- The free ride is ending at American Express Financial Advisors Inc., where more than 10,000 financial planners will have to get used to paying a bit more trading for inhouse mutual funds. By midyear, the Minneapolis-based financial services un ...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- Fund firms take disclosure to new level.(Reverse Spin)
- Byline: Rick Miller If the mutual fund scandal didn't shake investors' trust enough, revealing their personal information on the Internet just might. Some fund companies are posting names, account numbers and home addresses in regulatory ...
- Research articles 2005-03-28
- Details impede disbursements of settlement cash; Labor Dept., IRS still wrestling with issues.(News)
- Byline: David Hoffman NEW YORK - The billions in mutual fund settlement cash that resulted from the fund trading scandals should make its way into investors' pockets by the summer, but not before a few wrinkles are ironed out with two...
- Research articles 2005-11-21
- ICI wants SEC to go both ways, more or less. (Meetings, Conventions & Hearings).
- The head of the mutual fund industry's largest trade group called on the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday to require both more and less disclosure by fund companies. Matthew Fink, president of the Investment Company Institute, prai The...
- Research articles 2002-05-27
- Mutual fund companies roll out big fee breaks.(Finance)
- Byline: FREDERICK P. GABRIEL JR. Heightened sensitivity to mutual fund fees, coupled with intense pressure to attract and retain assets, is forcing many fund companies to resort to blue-light specials. At the end of the first quarter, the latest Byline: FREDERICK...
- Research articles 2004-09-20
- Fund giants open front in portal war with Janus: Fidelity Putnam, Franklin team up to challenge Vision.
- Three of the mutual fund industry's biggest players -- and fierce rivals on many fronts -- have joined forces to form an Internet portal aimed primarily at independent broker-dealers. Fidelity Investments, Putnam Investments and Franklin Resou Three of the...
- Research articles 2001-12-03
- Certifying results? Not a problem: fund firms unlikely to fight SEC proposal.
- In the wake of all the big corporate blowups, few mutual funds are likely to balk--at least publicly--about being pushed by regulators to certify their financial and shareholder reports. But that doesn't mean the industry is happy about it. ...
- Research articles 2002-09-16
- Damage control effort is targeting advisers; But some want fund firms to address fixing matters.(News)
- Byline: Rick Miller Running a play out of a crisis management handbook, scandal-tainted mutual fund companies are taking a no-holds-barred approach to keeping financial advisers from pulling assets from their firms. In the case of Boston...
- Research articles 2003-11-17
- MUTUAL DECISION: FUNDS MUST GET ONLINE OR BE UNPLUGGED.
- Cannibalize yourself or be eaten. That's the advice from the young Turks of the electronic commerce world to mutual fund companies worried about their traditional sales channels if fund sales over the Internet really take off. Said Richard Owe ...
- Research articles 1999-06-14
- Money talks -- and is talked to.(Brief Article)
- How often a mutual fund tells you what's in its portfolio often depends on who you are. The official line at mutual fund companies like Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group and Putnam Investments is that they'll do what the Securities and Exc...
- Research articles 1999-08-30
- Hedge probe may be boon for market-timing funds; SAAFTI members upset by Spitzer's remarks.(News)
- Byline: Sara Hansard Allegations that several major mutual fund companies improperly allowed a hedge fund to time the market could be a blessing in disguise for true market-timing funds. At least that's what advisers who practice market timin ...
- Research articles 2003-09-15
- SEC checks mutual fund compliance; Phone sweep examines progress on implementing new rules.(News)
- Byline: Frederick P. Gabriel Jr. BOSTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a "sweep'' of the nation's top mutual fund companies to determine if they are meeting the demands of the newly beefed-up compliance regulation Byline:...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- Putnam ex-CEO gets a nice parting gift.(Reverse Spin)
- Byline: Frederick P. Gabriel Jr. For someone who played a big role in damaging the reputation of a large fund company, Lawrence Lasser has done all right for himself. The former chief executive of Putnam Investments LLC...
- Research articles 2004-06-14
- Funds ready to fold on more disclosure: Vanguard, T. Rowe to end resistance.
- Resistance is beginning to crumble among mutual fund companies that oppose federal efforts to require more disclosure of fund holdings. The Securities and Exchange Commission has given the $6.2 trillion fund industry 30 days to state what it t ...
- Research articles 2002-12-23
- Market slump forces cost cutting: Many on wall street take slash-and-burn approach.
- Belt-tightening time It's belt-tightening time from Wall Street to Market Street. After years of unprecedented asset growth and dizzying levels of trading volume, Wall Street's brokerage and mutual fund companies are faced with a big pro...
- Research articles 2001-02-12
- Merrill hits funds with another fee; Omnibus accounts get double whammy of charges.(News)
- Byline: David Hoffman NEW YORK - Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. is hitting the mutual funds it supports with an omnibus-account double whammy. In addition to already charging fund companies for omnibus subaccounting, the industry giant...
- Research articles 2005-05-02
- Scrutiny of mutual funds grows as SEC probes deals with brokers.
- Putting the US mutual-fund industry under even more intense scrutiny, the Securities and Exchange Commission is deepening its investigation into arrangements between fund companies and brokerage houses and whether those agreements improperly influenc Putting the US mutual-fund industry under even more intense scrutiny, the Securities...
- Research articles 2003-10-23
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