Gold Bugs: Some Mutual Funds Move Into Gold
Morningstar.com - Tue Nov 10, 7:00 am ETDoes your mutual fund have the fever?
Does your mutual fund have the fever?
The former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said that President Barack Obama should empower a panel to investigate pay-to-play at public pension funds. "It’s a national disgrace," former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt said. "It’s pervasive.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument Monday on whether the 91 million Americans invested in mutual funds can sue if they think fees are too high.
Hearing arguments in a closely watched case that could have a major impact on the fee structure in the nation's $10 trillion mutual fund industry, the Supreme Court appeared wary of second-guessing the fees that funds pay to the investment advisers who run them.
The skepticism of mutual fund investors during Wall Street’s rally suggests that stocks aren’t entering a bull market.
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they are split over the role judges should play in reviewing the compensation of mutual fund advisers in a case that might force reductions in the $90 billion in annual fees advisers collect.
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Marketwire - Nov. 3, 2009) - IGM Financial Inc. (IGM) (TSX:IGM) today reported preliminary total mutual fund net new money in October of ($151.9) million as shown in Table 1. Total assets under management were $116.0 billion at October 31, 2009, up from $101.7 billion at December 31, 2008 and compared to $107.0 billion at October 31, 2008. Mutual fund assets under management ...
Larry MacDonald submits: U.S. broker Charles Schwab’s launch this week of 8 new exchange traded funds (ETFs) could be a watershed event for providers and users of ETFs and mutual funds. What’s remarkable is that Schwab has fixed its management expense ratios (MERs) even lower than the Vanguard ETFs and is allowing its ETFs to be bought and sold commission-free on a permanent basis through a ...
The old adage "past performance is not indicative of future results" rings true loud and clear in today's market. This premise, which appears in much mutual fund marketing, is why Standard & Poor's Equity Research uses a quantitative holdings-based, holistic ranking approach in ranking mutual funds.
You don't mind paying 1 or 2 percent in annual mutual fund fees? Okay, how would you feel about 10, 15 or 20 percent? Maybe even 30 percent? Numbers like that would get most investors' attention - if they were real. In fact, they are. I'll get back to that in a moment. What brings this up is news of a U.S. Supreme Court case involving investors' complaints about high fees. They are unhappy that ...
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