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Latest News Current Issue (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
70% of Equity Funds Increased Funds Since Financial Crisis: LipperBy November 6, 2009Seventy percent of equity funds have increased their expense ratios by an average of 8.2 basis points since the beginning of the crisis, found. Approximately 25% of the expense increases were larger than 10 basis points.On the other hand, long-term fixed income fund expense ratios remained largely unchanged,...
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FelixSalmon.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
What happened to mutual-fund fees and expenses in the wake of the financial crisis? Lipper has crunched the numbers , and it seems that the tumble in the stock market didn't have much effect on expenses: Surprisingly, the median management expense for most asset classes was largely unchanged from 2008 levels; most exhibited changes of +/- a few tenths of a basis point. Fees, on the other hand,...
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SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Felix Salmon submits: What happened to mutual-fund fees and expenses in the wake of the financial crisis? Lipper has crunched the numbers , and it seems that the tumble in the stock market didn’t have much effect on expenses: Surprisingly, the median management expense for most asset classes was largely unchanged from 2008 levels; most exhibited changes of +/- a few tenths of a basis...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Continuing a trend we've been seing for quite some time, investors continue to pull money out of equity funds (and money market funds), and put that cash into fixed income/credit. Goldman Sachs (via ShiftCTRL Group ) Credit, non-US stocks gain flow share in 4Q For the week ending 11/4, Lipper FMI data and our preliminary estimates suggest equity funds remained in the outflow mode, shedding...
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Desertification (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
[We need to] have land-use planning systems in place so that when agriculture does expand, it will do so in the places that we want it to Lipper said this would help understand the linkages between biodiversity and agricultural production. Loss of biodiversity reduced the options for ensuring more diverse nutrition, enhancing food production, raising incomes, being able to cope with environmental...
