Tag: Mutual funds

William Blair & Company launched the William Blair Emerging Markets Small Cap Growth Fund and the William Blair Large Cap Value Fund.  

Putnam Investments has launched the Putnam Short Duration Income Fund, which seeks to combine characteristics of both money market funds and ultra-short bond funds.

Natixis Global Associates (NGA) launched a risk-managed emerging markets mutual fund from AlphaSimplex Group (ASG).

Putnam Investments is introducing the Putnam Retirement Income Lifestyle Funds, a suite of three income-oriented mutual funds, along with a Retirement Income Analysis Tool. 

John Hancock Funds has established a series of R share classes for many of its mutual funds.

U.S. mutual fund investors withdrew an estimated $5 billion out of U.S. stock and bond mutual funds last month, according to Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.

Long-term mutual fund flows turned positive in September for the first time in three months, with inflows of $3.8 billion, according to Morningstar.

BlackRock, Inc. launched three mutual funds featuring alternative investment strategies available to the firm's U.S. retail and high net worth client base.  

Touchstone Advisors, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement with Old Mutual Asset Management (OMAM) to acquire select assets of OMAM’s U.S. mutual fund business. 

Putnam Investments has launched the Putnam Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund.

The TCW Group has launched the MetWest Unconstrained Bond Fund, the first fund from Metropolitan West Asset Management since its acquisition by TCW in December 2009.

Stock and bond funds experienced net outflows of $32.8 billion from long term funds last month, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

Vanguard has lowered costs on six index funds.

PIMCO has launched the PIMCO Inflation Response Multi-Asset Fund for investors looking to hedge global inflation risks. 

Long-term funds took in $370 billion in cash contributions globally, according to Strategic Insight (SI).  

Putnam Investments has launched a Web site dedicated to helping advisers better serve their clients.  

Fidelity Investments has expanded its Spartan equity index mutual fund line-up with five low-cost funds.

In spite of market volatility, Financial Research Corporation (FRC) expects demand for sub-advised mutual funds to rise and assets to reach $2.2 trillion by 2016, according to industry...

In an unusually volatile month, nervous investors redeemed an estimated $34 billion in net cash out of U.S. stock and bond mutual funds in August.

Excluding money market programs, local funds in Asia pulled in $7.7 billion in cash flows in July.