Tag: Fixed income

Transamerica Asset Management Group (TAMG) has extended indefinitely the reduction to the purchase threshold for NAV purchases of Transamerica Short-Term Bond announced earlier this year.

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street Corporation, announced that the SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Corporate Bond ETF (SCPB) began trading on...

A Bloomberg news report said six of the nine largest U.S. target-date fund providers by assets have junk bonds in their 2010 portfolios.

Another strong November showing has allowed taxable bond ETFs to walk off with “most popular” honors, with $32.1 billion in net year-to-date inflows, according to Morningstar.

Flows into bond funds in November, although somewhat off from the blistering pace of the prior three months, were very robust at $38 billion, according to Strategic Insight...

In its annual investment outlook, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research projected above-consensus GDP growth and a bullish outlook for equities.

The iShares 10+ Year Credit Bond Fund and the iShares 10+ Year Government/Credit Bond Fund have begun trading.

Looks like bonds are back—and in a big way. 

Vanguard has introduced seven bond index funds with ETF shares featuring expense ratios of 0.15%.

The state of Oregon has reached a $20-million settlement with MassMutual Financial Group's OppenheimerFunds Inc. of losses in a bond fund in the state's 529 college-savings plan.

For the third consecutive month, investors deposited a $40 billion-plus amount into bond funds, bringing year-to-date bond fund flow volumes to an enormous $330 billion, according to data...

A new Morningstar mutual fund flow report for October shows that most of the money investors yanked during the 2008 downturn from equity funds has been directed to...

A Mercer study found value funds outperformed growth funds in the third quarter, as the median large-cap value fund posted a gain of 16.3% compared to a gain...

Retirement plan investors seemed of two minds in October, with asset transfers out of 401(k) plans showing equal numbers favoring equities as fixed income, according to the latest...

Investors deposited a record $50 billion on a net basis into bond funds in September, bringing year-to-date bond fund flow volumes to $290 billion, according to Strategic Insight...

 Charles Schwab has been notified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it could be the target of an SEC civil suit.

The Hewitt 401(k) Index for September indicated 401(k) participants continued to slowly and modestly transfer assets from fixed income investments back into equities.

An employer’s move to reduce its equity holdings and increase fixed-income investments in its cash balance pension plan did not represent an illegal benefits reduction, a federal judge...

Grail Advisors has registered two new actively managed fixed-income exchange-traded funds (ETFs): Grail McDonnell Intermediate Municipal Bond ETF and Grail McDonnell Core Taxable Bond ETF.