SEC Proposes Moving Public Liquidity Risk Disclosure to Annual Reports
This would replace a pending requlation that would have required the disclosure to be made on Form N-PORT on a...
Tag: Mutual Funds
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Investment Products and Services Launches
Morningstar Grows Fund Ratings System with Quantitative Rating; First Trust Merges Two Funds; and Vanguard Changes Benchmarks for Funds.
SEC Deadline for Open-End Fund Liquidity Classification is Extended
However, the deadlines for creating a liquidity risk management program and to limit illiquid investments to 15% of a fund’s...
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Providers Seek an Edge through Fee Reductions, Share Class Simplifications
Interviews with product development leaders at Charles Schwab Investment Management and Putnam underscore the fierce competition that drives providers’ evolving...
Can DB Plans Offer a Better TDF Selection and Monitoring Framework?
ERISA requires plan sponsors to regularly monitor investment lineups to ensure they remain prudent—a task made more complicated by the...
Review of Vanguard and Fidelity Fee Adjustment Highlights Industry Competition
Retirement plan investment product and recordkeeping providers are careful to present a friendly face in their marketing and even in...
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Investment Products and Services Launches
Invesco launches Peak Retirement Target-Date Fund Series, and Efficient Advisors launches mutual fund partnership with Dimensional.
J.P. Morgan Warns Long-Term Investment Outlook Is Muted
“Saving more is the most obvious and effective way to improve retirement outcomes," J.P. Morgan experts say.
Retirement Funds Among Targets of Securities Fraud
Brokers serving retirement plans and other institutional investors were accused of routing orders for equities to an offshore affiliate in...
The Old Equity Bull Market Charges Into 2018
“A bad day in 2017 was a flat day,” says Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management. “Turning...
Technology Updates Past Due for Mutual Fund Disclosures
“Investors could benefit enormously from a compact and timely disclosure document that they actually look at and understand,” said SEC...
Settlement Agreement May Conclude Allianz Self-Dealing Challenge
Along with non-monetary relief, Allianz will pay $12 million into a common fund for the benefit of class members, to...
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Investment Products and Services Launches
BNY Mellon releases fund focused on income generation, and AI Insight announces new liquid alternative research.
Multi-Asset Fund Research Recommends More Focused Benchmarks
Respondents to a recent survey broadly use multiple benchmarks and measures to assess multi-asset fund performance, with around three selected...
Delta Air Lines Excessive Fee ERISA Lawsuit Dismissed
Drawing on a number of recent decisions, the district court ruled the plaintiffs did not adequately describe how the offering...
Year-End Market Analysis Highlights Global Momentum
However, the increasing “narrowness” of the sources of return in broad market indexes is concerning to MFS experts.
Sponsors Must Weigh Response To Record-Breaking Equity Markets
With strong November returns, the Wilshire 5000 U.S. equity index extended an unprecedented run of consecutive monthly gains.
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Investment Products and Services Launches
Swerdlin & Company integrates Stadion Storyline; Vanguard offers first U.S. actively managed ETF suite; and AAM enters U.S. ETF market...
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Barry’s Pickings Online: The Bureaucratization—and Politicization—of Capital Formation
Michael Barry, president of the Plan Advisory Services Group, discusses issues with suggestions for reducing retirement plan fees.
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Investment Products and Services
State Street Global Advisors launches new SPDR Portfolio ETFs; FS Investments introduces open-end mutual fund; Vanguard selects Wellington to manage...