The Markets

Standard&Poor's launched two new investable Shariah indexes for the Indian equities market - the S&P CNX 500 Shariah and S&P CNX Nifty Shariah.

Fewer than one third of all financial services firms providing products across five investment categories enjoy positive loyalty ratings among advisers who sell their products, according to a...

Citigroup has suspended redemptions in CSO Partners, a fund specializing in corporate debt, after investors tried to redeem more than 30% of the fund's roughly $500 million in...

Morningstar on Thursday announced it had launched the Morningstar Rating for hedge funds as well as the Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index and 17 indexes based on the...

As plan’s use of target-date, or target-maturity, funds increases, discussions about how best to structure and benchmark these funds have become more frequent.

Final QDIA regulations issued by the Department of Labor in October offer the financial services industry – and every plan sponsor – a once-in-a-generation opportunity to contribute to...

It doesn’t happen often – but today it was announced that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will undergo some changes.

Standard&Poor’s global stock market review, The World by Numbers, indicates world markets registered one of the worst ever starts to a new year.

The Iowa Division of Insurance will be the first U.S. state regulator to implement an initiative designed to improve consumer understanding of fixed and indexed annuities.

AIM Investments has announced new management leadership for AIM Constellation Fund and AIM Technology Fund.

MFS Investment Management has launched the MFS Diversified Target Return Fund.

On Friday the Board of Directors of Dodge&Cox announced that the Dodge&Cox Stock Fund and Dodge&Cox Balanced Fund will reopen to new investors effective Monday, February 4, 2008.

If you’ve been asked in the past two weeks what to do about the market (and who hasn’t), I’m sure your response has been something along the lines...

Merrill Lynch&Co. has bought back from the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that included subprime mortgages.

The combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) rose in December by $36.3 billion, or 6.3%, to $608.4 billion, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds decreased by $30.4 billion, or 0.3%, to $12.04 trillion in December, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

Standard&Poor’s, CRISIL, and KLD Research&Analytics, a social and environmental research firm, have announced the launch of the S&P ESG India Index.

Perfection is a rare thing, particularly in sports.

FTSE Group, a global index company, and Yasaar Research on Wednesday launched the FTSE Shariah Global Equity Index Series.

Stock and bond mutual funds experienced net inflows of $47.2 billion in December and $376.3 billion for the year, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).