Asset Managers
The latest news on top asset managers, including updates on mergers and acquisitions, as well as new investment strategies and fund offerings.
2010 Q4 Earnings, Week Two: Asset Managers All Posted Profits
By Staff WriterDespite concerns about outflows, fourth-quarter is shaping up to be an excellent earnings season for asset management and mutual fund firms. To be sure,…
January 18, 2011
Choppy seasOne thing that has come out of the double-whammies -- the March 2000 through March 2003 agony and then the 2008 mess (I call that one the Great Debacle) -- is volatility.
January 18, 2011
TD Ameritrade's Fiscal Q1: Income Rises, Sales Beat EstimatesNet new client assets for the online broker were $9.7 billion, a jump of 11% over last year’s results.
January 18, 2011
Baby Boomer Assets Down 12% Since 2006Older baby boomers on average have 12% fewer assets than they did four years ago, according to data released Tuesday by Cogent Research.
January 17, 2011
U.S. Corporate Pensions End 2010 With 'Optimistic Close:' MillimanWhile funded status for corporate pensions was down at year-end 2010, the Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index was optimistic about pensions' future.
January 17, 2011
Exploring Tactical Allocation Using ETFs With Brian Singer, Part 1Why the Singer Partners’ CIO focuses, and has for 20 years, on tactical asset allocation as a core investment strategy.
January 11, 2011
KBW Q4 Preview of Asset Managers Sees Overall Positive PerformanceFourth-quarter 2010 earnings for asset management firms will reflect a “transition quarter” of largely positive fund flows, said Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts in a Q4 preview.
January 10, 2011
U.S. Bank to Use Smartleaf ‘Unified Overlay Platform’'Unified overlay platform' to optimize 40,000 non-brokerage ‘customized’ portfolios.