Mutual Funds

Chuck Jaffe: Fund companies' biggest lies

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The mutual-fund world is rife with misleading statistics and data. Most fund investors don’t necessarily know how this information can be used against them.

Corrections: RS fund managers' stock picks

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

On Nov. 20, a MarketWatch column misidentified the mutual fund that owns the selected stocks and misspelled a portfolio manager's name. The column has been corrected.

First Mutual Fund Investment in Microfinance in India

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

CHENNAI, India, November 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A recent micro-loan securitisation, completed by IFMR Capital and Equitas Micro Finance, has enabled the first ever mutual fund investment into the Indian microfinance sector. The Rs. 480 million ($10.4 million) transaction is backed by over 55,000 micro-loans originated by Equitas Micro Finance, a Chennai-based microfinance institution with approximately...

Transamerica Announces New Mutual Fund Platform with Expanded Target Maturity Choices from Three Industry Leaders

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Transamerica Retirement Services today introduced a new mutual fund platform for company-sponsored retirement plans. The new platform offers an investment line-up with no proprietary fund requirements. Target maturity funds are included from three fund families, a choice often made available only to larger plans by most providers. The new mutual fund platform features...

How to find the 200-day moving average for your mutual fund

USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Q: Can I see the 200-day moving average for a mutual fund using USATODAY.com's Money section?

Mutual Funds Weekly: 'Halloween Effect' scares stock-market bears

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

The seasonal pattern known as 'The Halloween Effect' has shown up on Wall Street most every year for decades and frightened away the bears. Maybe that's why they hibernate in winter.

What's Inside Pimco?

Business Week (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Pimco Total Return Fund is the world's biggest mutual fund. What's in its portfolio?

Trustees of Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund and Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II Approve Change in Investment Policies

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

BOSTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Trustees of Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund (NYSE: EOI) and Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II (NYSE: EOS), each a diversified, closed-end investment company (collectively, the "Funds" and each a "Fund"), have approved a change to the Funds' investment policies with respect to the sale of stock underlying a call option....

Schooner Investment Group's Greg Levinson is Part of an Emerging Trend in the Mutual Fund Space

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- There is a growing trend in the investment management community. Hedge fund managers are crossing over into the traditional money management space of mutual funds. That is exactly what Greg Levinson of Schooner Investment Group did in early 2008. Levinson, a 15 year hedge fund veteran, launched the Schooner Growth and Income Fund (SCNAX) with the intention of bringing...

Paulson starts gold fund amid record prices

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Funds run by Paulson & Co, the large New York hedge fund manager, are seen to now have more than a tenth of its assets in gold as prices for the metal hit record highs

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