Mutual-fund

Mutual-fund company Vanguard Group is among those who have submitted letters arguing for the extension.

Spotlight Shines on Exchanges' Order Routing Donna Kardos Yesalavich 2010

Yale University Jonathan R. Macey Mutual-fund regulations already have been overhauled to deal with the issues that emerged during the crisis.

Why Investors Shouldn't Worry About Money Funds Jonathan R. Macey 2011

Mutual-fund returns will be even less likely to justify fees.

Financial Crime, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Mutual-fund executives and others say that while trading costs have dropped overall, they are spending more on the algorithms that help prevent prices from shifting against them in the time it takes to buy or sell blocks of shares.

Slowpoke Traders Seek to Gain on Speedsters Jenny Strasburg 2011

Mutual-fund managers who cling to losing stocks underperform, by roughly four percentage points annually, the managers who cut their losses.

Why We Can't Let Go of Our Losers Jason Zweig 2011

Mutual-fund sales of €85.5 billion $124 billion year to date are a third below last year's levels, while new money flowing into hedge funds this year is at its highest level since 2007, according to Hedge Fund Research.

Asset Managers Feel the Squeeze Hester Plumridge 2011

Mutual-fund investors, who avoided putting new money to work in the stock market for about two years after the crisis, tend to move more slowly than hedge-fund investors.

Markets Rediscover the Fundamentals Mark Gongloff 2011

In contrast, of course, investor sentiment could hardly be clearer: Mutual-fund investors pulled an estimated $45 billion out of equity funds from August through mid-September, continuing a steady trend away from stocks that began when the market crashed in 2008.

Balanced Funds Tilt Toward Stocks, While Investors Want to Scale Back Sarah Morgan 2011

Mutual-fund investors who favor portfolios run by stock pickers should look for long-tenured management, solid returns and limited volatility, says Flynn Murphy , a mutual-fund analyst at Morningstar.

Why Tech Stocks Look Better—Even for the Risk Averse Jack Hough 2012

"Mutual-fund trading is not a standing-in-line activity," he says.

Apps to Trade on the Go Emily Glazer 2011