Mutual Funds News

The headlines about exchange-traded funds suggest there are no limits to the growth of these low-cost, easily traded alternatives to mutual funds.

President Bush, second from right, speaks during his roundtable discussion on health savings accounts in 2008 in Oklahoma City.

Target date mutual funds and ETFs are investment products targeting a particular investment horizon through a fairly passive asset allocation approach.

Can you please define "necessities" in today's world while trying to get out of debt and live on a budget? - Matthew Dear Matthew: Whether you're talking about the world today or 50 years ago, necessities haven't changed.

Mayor Lee Leffingwell has investments in stocks and mutual funds with an estimated value of anywhere from $159,000 to $643,000 . He enjoys an annual income of $150,000 from all sources, roughly half of which comes from his mayoral salary of $77,688. Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole and husband Kevin Cole have a real estate portfolio valued on the tax ... (more)

Sun Life Financial Inc. president and chief executive officer Dean Connor. Business has been strong, with $6.4 billion currently under management.

Investors worldwide cut back on commitments to high-yield "junk" bond funds in the latest week, giving just $100 million to the funds globally after committing over $1 billion the prior week, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

A couch potato portfolio consisting of three exchange-traded funds : Vanguard Total Stock Market, Vanguard MSCI Canada and Vanguard Total International Stock Market.

The RBC Canadian Dividend Fund and its ETF rivals are quite similar investing products in that they hold lots of familiar blue-chip stocks.

Thailand's asset-management industry has been voted third-best in the world, according to a global investor survey revealed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Saving money in 401 s comes with a few strings attached - fees . The fees in retirement accounts are probably the biggest obstacles to saving successfully for retirement, and many of these fees are undetectable to the untrained eye.

A former investment banking analyst at BMO Nesbitt Burns will pay more than $1 million to the province's stock market watchdog to settle allegations of illegal insider trading.

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks advanced 0.67 percent Friday, recovering from earlier losses, on growing expectations of Japan's economic recovery on the back of its government's economic measures.

Canadian dividend stocks that may be a good fit for contrarian investors prowling for out-of-favour companies that deserve to be much more popular.

Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets fell $1.04 billion to $2.582 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, according to the Investment Company Institute.

The old poet was wrong. April is not the cruelest month. May is - because that's when investors are hit with a barrage of articles and brokers' research reports imploring them to "sell in May" and sit out the stock market's weakest six months.

The headlines about exchange-traded funds suggest there are no limits to the growth of these low-cost, easily traded alternatives to mutual funds.

Mutual funds are caught in the middle of one of the most contentious issues in American politics: Spending by big business to gain influence in Washington.

Star bond investor and head of DoubleLine Capital LP Jeffrey Gundlach said on Wednesday that Japan's Nikkei stock market index will hit 17,000 before year-end, and that $380 is the "perfect price" at which to short Chipotle.

The All-cap Growth style ranks fifth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my Style Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report.