Quantcast
The MFWire
Manage Email Alerts | Sponsorships | About MFWire | Who We Are

Subscribe to MFWire.com's News Alerts [click]

Rating:Will Amazon, Microsoft, Wal-Mart or Yahoo Buy into the Fund Distribution Biz? Not Rated 0.0 Email Routing List Email & Route  Print Print
Monday, July 12, 2010

Will Amazon, Microsoft, Wal-Mart or Yahoo Buy into the Fund Distribution Biz?

News summary by MFWire's editors

Could the sale of mutual funds attract the attention of non-financial services titans like Amazon, Microsoft, Wal-Mart and Yahoo? Chuck Jaffe ponders that question in his MarketWatch column from yesterday, noting that Bostonians sometimes even speculate that Microsoft, Wal-Mart or Yahoo might someday buy Fidelity.

Jaffe's musings were prompted by a new small-business loan program being tested out by Wal-Mart's Sam's Club stores. Given the huge potential impact of financial reform and various signs of the commoditization of mutual funds, Jaffe opines, perhaps outside buyers with strong existing brands and reach, buyers like Wal-Mart, will be more likely to move in on brokerages' and fund firms' territory. And Wal-Mart or some similar player makes a mutual fund move, Jaffe predicts that buying is more likely than building. 

Edited by: Neil Anderson, Managing Editor


Stay ahead of the news ... Sign up for our email alerts now
CLICK HERE

0.0
 Do You Recommend This Story?



GO TO: MFWire
Return to Top
 News Archives
2024: Q2Q1
2023: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2022: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2021: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2020: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2019: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2018: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2017: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2016: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2015: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2014: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2013: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2012: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2011: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2010: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2009: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2008: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2007: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2006: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2005: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2004: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2003: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2002: Q4Q3Q2Q1
 Subscribe via RSS:
Raw XML
Add to My Yahoo!
follow us in feedly




©All rights reserved to InvestmentWires, Inc. 1997-2024
14 Wall Street | 20th Floor | New York, NY 10005 | P: 212-331-8968 | F: 212-331-8998
Privacy Policy :: Terms of Use