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Mallett: Stability Matters
By Allison BellUsing stock-based funds as a default retirement plan investment vehicle may expose many affected plan participants to excessive risk.
July 16, 2009
Style PointsIs it best to make sure your client's equity dollars are divided across most or all of the nine style boxes? Or should you be focused on finding the best fund managers for your clients, regardless of style box?
July 14, 2009
Second-quarter mutual fund inflow highest since 2007Investors poured the largest amount of money into stock and bond mutual funds in more than two years in the second quarter, according to a...
July 10, 2009
MainStay Investments Acquires New FundsMainStay Investments announced that they will acquire four equity mutual funds managed by Epoch Investment Partners Inc., (Epoch).
July 01, 2009
Surviving the Muni StormThe next corner of the bond market that looks poised for a storm of epic proportions is the usually quiet and tame municipal bond market....
July 01, 2009
ETF Advisor: Cr?me de la Cr?me--The Best-Performing ETFs for the Long RunQuick, what do these three exchange-traded funds--Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR, iShares Dow Jones U.S. Energy Sector, and Vanguard Consumer Staples--have in common? They are the...
July 01, 2009
Van Eck Debuts Brazil Small-Cap ETFVan Eck Global has introduced the Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF (BRF), the first U.S.-listed ETF to focus on Brazilian small-cap stocks. BRF and its underlying...
July 01, 2009
Grail Launches Active ETFActively managed ETFs have yet to gain the same type of traction as index-based ETFs but that hasn't stopped product providers from launching new funds. The...