New investment chief says Vanguard to stay lowest cost

Money Funds' $1 Share Price At Risk Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—A proposal to require money-market mutual funds to abandon their signature $1 share price picked up steam Friday, as two securities regulators voiced support for the idea. The move to float the funds' $1 share prices, currently stable ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Actively Managed Mutual Funds Are Investing in ETFs TheStreet.com According to Morningstar, hundreds of mutual funds have taken the plunge. More than 130 activemutual funds own SPDR S&P 500 (SPY). Investors in the S&P 500 ETF include Columbia Dividend Income (LBSAX), Hartford Growth Opportunities (HGOAX) ... See all stories on this topic »

Top 5 Zacks #1 Ranked Healthcare Mutual Funds - Best of Funds NASDAQ The fund primarily purchases equity securities but may also invest in future contracts. It focuses on investing in domestic firms, but may invest up to 25% of its assets in other countries. The healthcaremutual fund has a three year annualized return ... See all stories on this topic »

Bond Funds Get Aggressive Wall Street Journal Bond funds are the most popular category of mutual funds, attracting net inflows of $204 billion so far this year through Aug. 31, compared with net outflows of $59 billion in U.S. stock funds during the same time period, according to investment ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Taiwan to allow mutual funds to fully invest in China stocks Reuters TAIPEI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Taiwan's financial regulator has eased a rule to allow local fundmanagement firms to fully invest in China's stock markets from their new funds, in the latest sign of warming business ties across the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan's ... See all stories on this topic »

Market rally lands US stock funds in the money MarketWatch Indeed, every major U.S. stock mutual-fund category logged strong third-quarter gains, with some rising by double-digit percentages, according to preliminary data through Sept. 26 from investment researcher Morningstar. Small caps, precious metals ... See all stories on this topic »

New investment chief says Vanguard to stay lowest cost Reuters Vanguard, based in suburban Philadelphia, has $1.9 trillion in mutual fund, closed-end and variable annuity assets, up from $1.33 trillion five years ago, according to Lipper, a unit of Thomson Reuters. Vanguard offers actively-managed equity funds ... See all stories on this topic »

Real Estate, Savings, Bonds, Stocks, Mutual Funds, ETFs: What Will Be The Next ... Seeking Alpha We then heard that placing large bets on individual stocks was too risky so we invested in mutual funds. And when we got the news that most mutual funds underperformed their closest index, we bought ETFs. At least that is what happened in the US and ... See all stories on this topic »

Wall Street's MLP Fund Frenzy Investing Daily Investors can now choose from 47 fund products–22 closed-end funds, 13 exchange-traded products and 12 mutual funds–that focus exclusively on, or allocate significant amounts of capital to, master limited partnerships (MLP). Thirty-five of these ... See all stories on this topic »

The hidden dangers in playing it safe Globe and Mail Mutual fund industry data show they did this by dumping investments in the stock market and buying bond funds and balanced funds, which muffle stock market risk with big holdings of bonds. These are defensible moves from a risk-tolerance point of view. See all stories on this topic » Economic Times Spain presents budget, sees mild 2013 recession MarketWatch During the same news conference, Budget Minister Cristóbal Montoro Romero predicted Spain would experience a mild recession in 2013. The announcements come at a critical moment for Spain, with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy under intense pressure to ... See all stories on this topic »