Mutual Funds

Turning your mutual fund lemons into lemonade

USA Today (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

We admire people who look into the eye of adversity, dig in their heels and persevere, no matter what the odds. But in investing, ...

Lawrence, NY - Former Manger Of America’s Premier Magellan Mutual Fund Speaks About His Love, Dedication For The Torah

Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday

Morris Smith and his wife, Devora.Lawrence, NY - A recent New York Times article posed the following question to the gold winners at this year’s Olympics: Where do you go once you’ve got the gold medal? What next after you’ve managed to hit the dream? The same question, albeit in a nonsporting context, could [...]

Strong Performance and Lower Fees Mark Five-Year Anniversary for Multi-Manager Long-Short Mutual Fund

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

TOPEKA, Kan. and NEW YORK, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Security Global Investors (SGI) announced the Security Alpha Opportunity Fund, one of the marketplace's first mutual funds with long-short exposure, marked five years of benchmark-beating returns, earning a 4-Star rating from Morningstar. Since its inception in July 2003 through July 31, 2008, the Alpha Opportunity Fund (SAOAX) returned 11.91% on an...

IGM Financial Inc.: IGM Financial Inc. Announces August 2008 Total Assets Under Management and Mutual Fund Sales

Market Wire - Financial Services: Personal Finance (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA (MARKET WIRE) IGM Financial Inc. (IGM) (TSX: IGM) today reported preliminary total assets under management of $118.2 billion and mutual fund assets under management of $104.7 billion as at August 31, 2008. Total mutual fund net new money in August was ($88.3) million.

ICI Joins Opposition to Money-Fund Rule

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Mutual-fund companies are criticizing an SEC plan that would remove some of the restrictions on money funds buying of risky securities.

• Wall Street, funds urge SEC to keep ratings in rules - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Wall Street, funds urge SEC to keep ratings in rules - Reuters

Newest SPARX Asia Funds Top Benchmarks

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

- Three Funds Mark Milestone on First Anniversary - NEW YORK, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- SPARX Asia Funds today announced that its three newest Asia-focused mutual funds all surpassed their benchmarks in the one-year period since their inception on August 31, 2007. Launched one year ago, the funds include the SPARX Asia-Pacific Opportunities Fund (ticker: SPAPX), the SPARX Asia-Pacific Equity Income...

GE stock: It's good, but it's riskier than the S&P 500

USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday

Q: Is owning General Electric (GE) just like owning a large, diversified mutual fund?

Fashion Industry Info Service Stylesight Gets $16 Million Funding

Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

New York City-based fashion online information service Sytlesight has received a big $16 million round of funding, from Fidelity Ventures, the VC arm of mutual fund Fidelity Investments. This is the company's first round of funding...founded in 2003, it provides a subscription-based service with trend forecasting and product development tools for the fashion industry professionals. Besides the information...

Domestic institutions stay put in D-Street

Times of India (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

The investments put in by DIIs indicate the continuous inflow of funds through unit-Linked plans (ULIPs), insurance policies and mutual fund schemes may have been continuously deployed in the markets.

J W Korth/Shop4Bonds Issues Special Reports on Ambac Financial Corporation, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

MIAMI, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- J W Korth/Shop4Bonds.com has issued Special Reports on Ambac Financial Corporation (ABK) and Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) fixed income securities. These reports are available on its website at shop4bonds.com. J W KORTH/SHOP4BONDS is a fully licensed securities broker dealer founded in 1982. Through its patent-pending internet bond execution platform, Shop4Bonds.com...

Investing in Yourself

Canadian Dream: Free at 45 (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

Stocks, bonds, mutual fund, t-bills, ETF’s, gold…there seems to be an endless number of places to invest your money. Yet for the pre-early retiree there is often one class of investments that pays huge dividends in savings that is over looked: investing in yourself. Lets face faces. You only get one body to live this life [...]

What not to buy in a bear market

CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

"Look at how well these investments performed during the 2000-02 bear market!" This is the line I've been hearing from mutual fund companies and other investment providers trying to sell me on the superiority of their products (and get me to put clients into them).

On 'Cramer's Way', EAFE and Shorting Oil

Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

IndexUniverse submits: By Jim Wiandt Heather Bell sent me this recent link to commentary from Jim Cramer , who in it is quoted as saying, among other things, "I'm going to tell you why I think my way, my method, is better than putting your money in a mutual fund, or an index fund, or playing around with exchange-traded funds," Cramer said. Complete Story »

What is a Mutual Fund?

dapx (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

This article serves as a tutorial for all those who are new to investment market and especially the Mutual funds. This article helps you best in understanding about mutual funds and their scope as investment tool.

HDFC MF overtakes ICICI Pru; MF assets jump 3%

Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

HDFC Mutual Fund has overtaken ICICI Prudential as the country’s second largest fund house after the industry snapped its two-month losing streak to record a three per cent rise in its asset base in August. Anil Ambani Group firm’s Reliance Mutual Fund has retained its top slot with an AUM of Rs 88,616.46 crore at [...]

• HDFC MF overtakes ICICI Prudential - Daily News Analysis