The Markets

The U.S. REIT market significantly outperformed the S&P 500 through February, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT).

Fund managers are bullish about the prospects for public equities and emerging markets in 2011, but have bearish views of nominal government bonds.

Russell Investments announced the 2011 schedule for its annual index reconstitution process, which reflects the past year’s global shift in equity markets.

The fourth quarter of 2010 witnessed a healthy rebound in asset manager margins, according to kasina.

Over the last twelve months, 529 plan assets have increased by 18.1%, reaching an estimated $138 billion in the last quarter of 2010.

In 2010, local Asia long-term funds gathered $55 billion in net inflows, slightly higher than in 2009, according to Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.

Invesco PowerShares and Select Sector SPDRs have come to terms over a trademark suit filed last year. 

Investors are more bullish towards global equities than at any time in the past decade, according to the Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers...

Long-term mutual funds roared back in January with nearly $30 billion in estimated inflows, according to Morningstar’s latest data.

Having broken the $1 trillion milestone in December, many questioned whether inflows into U.S. ETFs had become overheated, according to Morningstar.

Strategic Insight, an Asset International company, estimates that investors poured an additional $10.9 billion into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in January 2011.

U.S. mutual fund investors added about $34 billion in net cash to U.S. stock and bond mutual funds in January 2011.

Stock and bond funds experienced net inflows of $7.2 billion in December, according to Financial Research Corporation. 

Exchange-traded fund assets increased $8.8 billion (0.9%) during the month of January, to a total of approximately $1 trillion, according to State Street Global Advisors ETF Snapshot report.

Morningstar, Inc. has introduced four data points for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that it says will provide investors with more robust measures of the total costs and risks associated...

The mutual fund industry has benefited this past year from moderately improved investor confidence, rising stock prices, rapid fund innovation, and evolving leadership among fund managers, notes a...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that investors will be able to access information that money market funds file with the agency, including its...

MGM Resorts International said it will immediately resume matching payments to eligible employees participating in the firm's 401(k) Savings Plan for 2011.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 yesterday, the first time it has closed that high since June 19, 2008.

Vanguard is bringing the Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS) to market, which will track the MSCI All Country World ex USA Investable Market Index.