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Case Study Joint SEC/NASD/NYSE Report Of Examinations Of Broker-Dealers Regarding Discounts On Front-End Sales Charges On Mutual Funds This article is related to the investment in Mutual Funds in support of borker dealers. Mutual funds sold through broker-dealers may include a sales...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund

Company: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Date: March 2003
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
White Paper The Benefits Of Hybrid Mutual Funds The Article explains the study, which provides important information to the investment community about the benefits of hybrid mutual funds: First, hybrid mutual funds provide...

Tags: Article, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investor, Investment

Company: Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets
Date: May 2003
Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets
White Paper Choosing Between ETFs And Mutual Funds Depending on your needs, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), index mutual funds or actively managed mutual funds can help you get the right exposure in your portfolio....

Tags: Benefits And Compensation, ETF, Finance, Financial Services, Human Resources

Company: Charles Schwab
Date: November 2009
Charles Schwab
White Paper Shining The Sun On Mutual Funds Portfolios Over the years, Mutual funds have become the investment choice for Americans, but funds are failing to adequately disclose their portfolios. The SEC is scrutinizing...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund

Company: Financial Planning Association
Date: January 2003
Financial Planning Association
White Paper On Industry Concentration of Actively Managed Mutual Funds The value of active fund management has recently become the central debate among researchers and practitioners in the area of money management. This paper talks...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Industry, Industry Concentration

Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: January 2003
Social Science Electronic Publishing
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White Paper Mutual Funds & Listed Options: Portfolio Management Strategies Over the past thirty years, mutual funds have experienced tremendous growth. Millions of Americans currently enjoy the flexibility and investment growth these investment vehicles provide....

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund

Company: Chicago Board Options Exchange
Date: February 2001
Chicago Board Options Exchange
White Paper Captured Money? Differences in the Performance Characteristics of Retail and Institutional Mutual Funds Since the early 1990s, a number of mutual funds have emerged that cater exclusively to institutional investors, i.e. pension funds, trusts and corporate benefit plans....

Tags: Benefits, Retirement Plans, Performance Management, Performance, Mutual Funds

Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: December 2002
Social Science Electronic Publishing
White Paper United States, Changes to the Mutual Funds Regime Over the past year, the booming US economy has led to an enormous influx of US investor dollars into mutual funds. This explosion in the...

Tags: Benefits, Retirement Plans, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investment Company

Company: Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young
Date: January 2003
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young
White Paper Invest Wisely: An Introduction to Mutual Funds Over the past decade, American investors increasingly have turned to mutual funds to save for retirement and other financial goals. Mutual funds can offer the...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund

Company: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
White Paper Banks and Mutual Funds Mutual funds are the fastest-growing segment of the financial-services industry. The author traces the growth of mutual funds and describes the major functionaries employed by...

Tags: Bank, Benefits, Finance, Financial Services, Human Resources

Company: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Date: February 1996
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
White Paper Diversification Key to in Hedge Funds: Many Products are less Risky Than Most Equity Mutual Funds Hedge fund investing appears to be a dangerous pastime reserved for those who don't mind handing over money to managers who love to make risky...

Tags: Benefits, Retirement Plans, Mutual Funds, Investment, Human Resources

Company: BluMont Capital
Date: August 2003
BluMont Capital
White Paper Mutual Funds and the U.S. Retirement Market in 2003 Retirement assets invested in mutual funds rose 28 percent in 2003, reaching $2.7 trillion by year-end. Strong stock market returns and net cash inflows produced...

Tags: Asset, Operational Planning, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investment

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: June 2004
Investment Company Institute
White Paper Mutual Funds and the Retirement Market in 2000 Retirement assets invested in mutual funds through Individual Retirement Accounts IRAs) and defined contribution plans declined 2 percent in 2000 to $2.4 trillion, reflecting weakness...

Tags: Asset, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: June 2001
Investment Company Institute
White Paper Different Types of Mutual Funds This article provides information about various mutual funds. Being a collection of many stocks one may have thought that picking a mutual fund might be...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund

Company: About
About
White Paper The Differences Between Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds This article explains the difference between hedge & mutual funds. When the stock market is doing poorly, talk of using hedge funds tends to increase....

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Financial Services, Hedge Fund, Human Resources

Company: About
About
White Paper Mutual Funds: Additional Disclosures Could Increase Transparency of Fees and Other Practices The paper reviews how mutual funds disclose their fees and related trading costs and options for improving these disclosures, changes in how mutual funds pay...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund

Company: U.S. General Accounting Office
Date: January 2004
U.S. General Accounting Office
White Paper Mutual Fund Investing: Investing Your Money In Mutual Funds Mutual funds diversify their investing or specialize in one area, such as utilities, manufacturing, metals, telecommunication, airlines, small growth companies, high yield bonds, and other...

Tags: Associated Content, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment

Company: Associated Content
Date: November 2005
Associated Content
White Paper The Dilution Impact Of Daily Fund Flows On Open-End Mutual Funds Article examine how mutual fund flow flows that are correlated with subsequent fund returns can have a dilution impact on the performance of open-end funds....

Tags: Benefits, Retirement Plans, Reed Elsevier Inc., Pricing, Performance Management

Company: Reed Elsevier
Date: May 2001
Reed Elsevier
White Paper The Differences Between Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds Mutual funds and hedge funds differ in many ways. The areas of greatest difference between the two are regulatory requirements; fees; leveraging practices; pricing and...

Tags: Benefits, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investment Company Institute, Investment

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: April 2001
Investment Company Institute
White Paper Performance Attribution and Style Analysis: From Mutual Funds to Hedge Funds Sharpe (1992) proposed an asset class factor model for performance attribution and style analysis of mutual fund managers. The elegance of Sharpe's (1992) intuition was...

Tags: Analysis, Performance, Operational Planning, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund

Company: Duke University
Duke University
White Paper Introduction to Money Market Mutual Funds Money market mutual funds have made money market investing accessible to individual retail investors. Money market mutual funds are among the safest and most liquid...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Investopedia

Company: Investopedia
Date: August 2004
Investopedia
White Paper The Expenses of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Mutual Funds This paper extends the research of the earlier studies by comparing the expenses of mutual funds with those of defined benefit pension plans sponsored by...

Tags: Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investment Company Institute

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: December 2003
Investment Company Institute
White Paper Playing The M&A Boom With Mutual Funds Specialized mutual funds that invest in mergers and acquisitions have provided slow and steady returns in recent years, protecting investors from painful market corrections. With...

Tags: Benefits, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A

Company: FMR
Date: September 2009
FMR
White Paper Tax Externalities of Equity Mutual Funds Investors holding mutual funds in taxable accounts face a classic externality. The after-tax return of their investment depends on the behavior of others. In particular,...

Tags: Benefits, Retirement Plans, National Tax Journal, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund

Company: National Tax Journal
Date: September 2000
National Tax Journal
White Paper Why Have U.S. Households Increasingly Relied on Mutual Funds to own Equity Since the early 1990s, U.S. households have increasingly used mutual funds to own equity assets. In that model, lower asset transfer costs and lower income...

Tags: Benefits, Equity, Finance, Financial Services, Human Resources

Company: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Date: May 2004
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
White Paper Mutual Funds and the U.S. Equity Market Mutual funds have grown rapidly over the past decade, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of household assets, in large part because of...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund

Company: Federal Reserve Bulletin
Date: December 2000
Federal Reserve Bulletin
White Paper U.S. Household Ownership of Mutual Funds in 2003 An estimated 53.3 million U.S. households owned mutual funds as of July 2003, down from 54.2 million in May 2002. Household mutual fund owners represented...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: October 2003
Investment Company Institute
White Paper Tax Strategies: Mutual Funds Distributions from a mutual fund consist of ordinary dividends and capital gains distributions. With the exception of tax-exempt mutual funds, dividends and distributions received from...

Tags: Benefits, Retirement Plans, Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund

Company: Prudential Financial
Date: January 2008
Prudential Financial
White Paper The After-Tax Performance Of Mutual Funds: Why It's Important Everyone wants their mutual funds to provide high returns, whether you hold the funds in non-taxable or taxable accounts. However, if the funds are held...

Tags: Benefits, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., Finance, Fund, Human Resources

Company: Charles Schwab
Date: September 2003
Charles Schwab
White Paper Evaluating and Investing in Equity Mutual Funds This paper talks about the framework for evaluating and investing in mutual funds combines observed returns on funds and passive assets with prior beliefs that...

Tags: Asset Management, Operational Planning, Mutual Funds, Knowledge@Wharton, Investment

Company: Knowledge@Wharton
Date: May 2000
Knowledge@Wharton
White Paper Mutual Funds and the Retirement Market Mutual fund assets held in retirement accounts stood at $2.4 trillion at the end of 1999, remaining at about one-third of all mutual fund assets....

Tags: Asset, Operational Planning, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investment

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: May 2000
Investment Company Institute
White Paper Mutual Fund Trading Abuses: How Strong Compliance Systems can Provide Early Detection at Broker/Dealers and Mutual Funds This paper discusses about the Mutual fund trading abuses. Ninety-five million Americans invest seven trillion dollars in mutual funds. For many of those 95 million,...

Tags: Benefits, Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Investment

Company: Mantas
Date: November 2003
Mantas
White Paper Real Estate Mutual Funds: Performance and Persistence This paper studies performance of real estate mutual funds between 1993 and 2001. The results indicate that real estate mutual funds do not provide positive...

Tags: Business Operations, Human Resources, Performance, Performance Management, Real Estate

Company: California State University, Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
Date: January 2003
California State University, Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
White Paper Performance Persistence for Mutual Funds: Academic Evidence Measuring the persistence of Mutual funds performance has been the goal of many academic studies for the last three decades. Managers of actively managed portfolios...

Tags: Financial Industry, Human Resources, Money Manager, Mutual Fund, Performance

Company: Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets
Date: May 2003
Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets
Presentation Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 Overview And Application To Mutual Funds Accounting irregularities in the past necessitated enforcement of a recent Act. The same incorporates wide range of rules applicable to mutual funds and other companies....

Tags: Audit, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment

Company: The National Investment Company Service Association
Date: April 2003
The National Investment Company Service Association
White Paper A Statistical View of Mutual Funds This article discusses the technicality in the world of mutual funds; one will need to look at some key statistical data on the risk and...

Tags: Benefits, Retirement Plans, Performance Management, Performance, Mutual Funds

Company: Investopedia
Date: November 2002
Investopedia
White Paper Institutional Investment Management: A Comparison of Portfolio Management Expenses of Mutual Funds and Defined Benefit Pension Plans The expenses borne by mutual funds for portfolio management are roughly the same as the expenses incurred by public pension plans for external management of...

Tags: Benefits, Portfolio Management, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investment Company Institute

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: November 2003
Investment Company Institute
White Paper Total Shareholder Cost of Mutual Funds: An Update This paper updates previous research published by the Investment Company Institute on the fees and expenses incurred by investors who purchase mutual funds. Three earlier...

Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Investment Company Institute

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: September 2002
Investment Company Institute
White Paper Reports of "Portfolio Pumping" by Mutual Funds: A Closer Look The practice of portfolio pumping is illegal and has been the subject of successive SEC examinations. Beginning in 2000, for example, the SEC undertook a...

Tags: Benefits, Retirement Plans, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investment Company Institute

Company: Investment Company Institute
Date: July 2004
Investment Company Institute
White Paper On the Industry Concentration of Actively Managed Equity Mutual Funds Mutual fund managers may decide to deviate from a well-diversified portfolio and concentrate their holdings in industries where they have informational advantages. This paper studies...

Tags: Benefits, Strategy, Retirement Plans, Performance Management, Performance

Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: September 2004
National Bureau of Economic Research

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