News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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A 35-Year-Old Gotham Shop Soars Into ETF Country
The folks at a single-strategy, $24-billion-AUM, institutional asset manager are preparing to launch an exchange traded fund...
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Friday, June 9, 2023
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Natixis Bids Adieu to a Three-Year-Old, Active ETF
The multimanager fund uses the Proxy Portfolio Methodology Approach from the NYSE...
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
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First Trust Preps a $48MM-AUM, 3-Fund Liquidation
The first fund is slated to shut down later this month, and the other two are slated to go in July...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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Larry and Rob Get Bodyguards
The world's largest asset is now paying for "individualized personal security programs" for its high profile chiefs...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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A Houston Startup Teams Up For an ETF
The new fund is designed to tracked a five-month-old index from ICE...
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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A Re-Tickered Thematic ETF Reaches One Year
A PA fund firm's team celebrates a milestone for a fund that changed tickers a few months ago...
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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Sullivan Hires One AB C-Suiter While Two More Rise
Two big mutual fund firms' chiefs make key appointments...
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Friday, June 2, 2023
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Equity Fund Flows Improve By $2.7B
The LSEG Lipper folks reveal the latest weekly U.S. fund flows data...
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Friday, June 2, 2023
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What's Next For Bob and His Team?
The Putnam chief offers hints as to what comes next, for him and for the firm, after the impending sale...
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
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Invesco's Old and New Chiefs Team Up For a Milestone
The publicly traded asset manager now has new home in a familiar hometown...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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Abby Donates a 250,000-Square-Foot Building
The Boston Behemoth is doubling down on its support of a New England university...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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The Mountain Comes to Bob. Jenny Makes the Deal
Franklin gains a strategic partnership and is poised to snap up a $169-billion-AUM fund firm.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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A Former Index Investing Leader Leaves DWS
The executive more recently led systematic investment solutions at the multinational asset manager...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
MFWire will be closed Monday in observance of the Memorial Day market holiday...
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Friday, May 26, 2023
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Will the Mountain Come to Bob?
What are the Desmarais thinking? Word is that a sale of a Beantown fund firm is close...
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Friday, May 26, 2023
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Six Influential Fundster Allies In Washington
The folks at a D.C. magazine release the third annual edition of their list of the most influential people shaping public policy...
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Thursday, May 25, 2023
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Reynolds Reveals Putnam's 12th Active ETF
The new equity fund debuted last week on the NYSE and focuses on emerging markets, other than China...
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Thursday, May 25, 2023
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What Holds Back Fundsters' Videos For FAs?
The folks at an asset management industry consulting firm offer insights into what bugs advisors about video...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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Reader Rating: 5
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AXS Buys a Two-Fund Firm In California
Five of the target's team members have joined the acquirer and will continue to be based in the Southland...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
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Bridge Builder Repeats, Netting $58MM Per Fund
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for April 2023 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Monday, May 22, 2023
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One Year, $685MM In AUM
An ETF startup now has a team of 41 employees powering eight funds...
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Thursday, May 18, 2023
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A 26-Year-Old Fixed Income Shop Sells to Shelton
The deal brings five people, about $500 million in AUM, and a new office to the 38-year-old acquirer...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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A Florida CPA/RIA Enters the ETF Biz
Its first ETF is an actively managed, tactical, focused equity fund...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
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Week In Preview, May 15 - May 21
This week, the teams at Expect Miracles, iConnections, MFDF, and MMI are hosting events...
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Monday, May 15, 2023
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A Digital Assets Fund Giant Preps 3 ETFs
The move comes as the firm is still in a court battle over converting a flagship product into an ETF...
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Friday, May 12, 2023
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Pimco Adds an Active Commodity Fund
The new ETF includes five PMs and debuted on Tuesday...
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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Who Will Take Over This $42B-AUMA Firm?
A CEO is preparing to say goodbye to an asset manager after seven years on top...
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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IndexIQ and CBRE Team Up Again
The two firms are powering a second active ETF together...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
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Know Your FA Audience
New research from an asset management industry consulting firm underscores general differences in how advisors want to learn...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
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CCM Sells a $70MM-AUM Pair of Funds
The two mutual funds will be merged into a publicly traded asset manager's first ETF, more than doubling its AUM...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
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15 Years, $2.7B In AUM
The team at a $584-billion-AUM (as of December 31) asset manager celebrates a mutual fund's crystal anniversary...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
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A Cali-Nevada Duo Enters the ETF Biz
ETF Architect helps an RIA's new sibling launch its first ETF...
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Monday, May 8, 2023
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Week In Preview, May 8 - May 14
This week, the teams at MFDF, MMI, Nicsa, the Sohn Conference Foundation, and WE are hosting events...
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Monday, May 8, 2023
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A Global X Co-Founder Preps a 22-Fund Family
The entrepreneur is preparing to role out 21 index ETFs and one actively managed ETF...
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Friday, May 5, 2023
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Long-Term Outflows Quadruple to $15.7B
The Refinitiv Lipper folks reveal the latest weekly U.S. fund flows data...
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Friday, May 5, 2023
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Breakwave Floats a Third ETF
The six-year-old commodity trading advisor is again teaming up with ETF Managers Group...
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
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Touchstone Enters the Thematic ETF Biz
The Midwestern, subadvised fund firm's team is rolling out their fifth active ETF...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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Hunt Invests In a $5B-AUM Shop
PGIM agrees to buy a 16-year-old, nearby asset manager that specializes in private credit and direct lending...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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Jenny Bets On a Managed Options Specialist
The acquired firm's three partners are staying on board with Franklin, leading a new unit within the firm's product solutions division...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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Five Subadvisors Will Power Harbor's Newest Fund
The subadvised fund firm's team is rolling out their 13th ETF...
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Monday, May 1, 2023
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Bridge Builder Wins With $302MM Per Fund
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for March 2023 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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Week In Preview, April 24 - April 30
This week, the teams at Envestnet, IMEA, M*, MFDF, and WE are hosting events...
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Monday, April 24, 2023
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A 34-Year-Old Firm Adds to Its Ownership Group
The elevation comes two years after the executive joined the $1.1-billion-AUM fund firm to lead client relations and business development...
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Thursday, April 20, 2023
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With $7B, BlackRock Regains the Lead
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for March 2023 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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15 Years, $6B In AUM, 68 Employees
The team at a faith-based, ESG mutual fund firm celebrates their crystal anniversary...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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An Insurer Sells a $9.3B-AUM MF Biz
The deal is part of a broader sale of a $20.7-billion-AUM asset management arm...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
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T. Rowe Preps a $13B-AUM Dual Handoff
A 23-year company veteran is preparing to pass the reins to a pair of mutual funds...
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Monday, April 17, 2023
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JPMAM Preps a Four-Fund, $1.9B-AUM Transformation
The folks at a money center bank's asset management arm are preparing to convert four of their active mutual funds into ETFs...
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Friday, April 14, 2023
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Cap Group Preps Three More ETFs
No launch dates, expense ratios, or PMs have been listed yet for the planned funds...
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
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Virtus Seals an $8.3B-AUM Deal
The publicly traded, multi-boutique asset manager buys a Natixis shop, as expected...
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
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Teucrium Gets Into Metal
The new ETF is the fund firm's first ever non-agricultural offering...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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AM Profits Fall Six Percent, And ...
An ally to fundsters offers a look at their rough 2022...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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A $276.5B-AUM Firm's Fund Services Chief Retires
A 29-year company veteran succeeds the outgoing leader...
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Monday, April 10, 2023
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Happy Easter Weekend!
MFWire will be closed tomorrow in observance of the Good Friday market holiday...
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Thursday, April 6, 2023
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An NFL Alum Is Buying Into the ETF Biz
A footballer-turned-mortgage-banker agrees to buy a shop that runs and subadvises mutual funds...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
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Pan Pushes Back Against Yellen's Mutual Fund Warning
The ICI chief explains how money market funds and other open-end funds are not the problem in today's markets...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
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April Fools For Fundsters
A veteran asset management industry consultant and his team offer up some laughs with their annual "news" roundup for April Fools' Day...
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Monday, April 3, 2023
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American Century Floats Another Income ETF
The new, actively managed fund debuted earlier this month...
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Friday, March 31, 2023
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Yellen Sees Structural Vulnerabilities In Mutual Funds
The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury continues banking regulators' quest to regulate asset managers...
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
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American Century and Northern Trust Test a Data Platform
They are two of the six asset managers involved in a test of a new system for handling corporate action reports...
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
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A Three-Year-Old Firm Adds a Commodity Strat Fund
The new offering debuted earlier this week as an ETF...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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What FA Data Do You Gather?
A research ally to fundsters releases information about what asset managers try to learn about advisors...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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A $665B-AUM Firm Adds 3 Active ETFs
All three new funds focus on equities...
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Friday, March 24, 2023
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Dodge & Cox Leads With $80MM Per Fund
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for February 2023 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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BlackRock and Cap Group Win Big In Chi-Town
An investment research giant's team reveals the winners of their annual awards...
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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31 of the Most Influential Female Fundsters In 2023
An investing publication recognizes 100 women across finance...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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Money Market Fund Flows Jump $110B
The Refinitiv Lipper folks reveal the latest weekly U.S. fund flows data...
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Friday, March 17, 2023
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Titans' Flows Fall By $38B
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for February 2023 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Three Jensen Employees Gain Stakes
More than half of the asset manager's employees are shareholders...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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A $196B-AUMS Firm Adds an Inflation Sensitive Fund
The new, passively managed ETF is PMed by a seven-person investment committee...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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For Cap Group, Is the Fifth Time the Charm?
The team at an investment research giant reveals nominees (three PMs and three fund firms) for its annual awards...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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A $7.2T-AUM Firm Adds a 7-Bps Fund
The new, passively managed fixed income fund debuted last week...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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A $1.4T-AUM Firm Preps a Multi-Asset Income Fund
The new, actively managed ETF is expected to launch this summer...
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Monday, March 13, 2023
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Week In Preview, March 13 - March 19
This week, the teams at ICI, Irish Funds, MFDF, and Nicsa are hosting events...
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Monday, March 13, 2023
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A Multi-Boutique Adds a 5th Fund to a 7-Month-Old Suite
The freshly acquired firm has $4 billion in AUMA and half a dozen boutiques...
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Friday, March 10, 2023
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A $57B Plunge In One Week
The Refinitiv Lipper folks reveal the latest weekly U.S. flows data...
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Friday, March 10, 2023
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A $2T-AUS Firm Adds a Muni Bond ETF
The new index fund debuted earlier this week and has nearly $20 million in AUM...
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
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Spouting Rock Bets On a 3-Year-Old Boutique
Updated | The multi-boutique is taking a stake in a global value equity asset manager...
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
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MFS Offers Tips For Better Serving Female Investors
The fund firm shares insights in light of Women's History Month and International Women's Day...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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A $128B-AUM Firm Adds a Value ESG Fund
The new fund will be PMed by a 20-year company veteran...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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A Gotham Fund Firm Lays Off Nine
The staffing reduction amounts to less than five percent of the firm's global headcount...
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Monday, March 6, 2023
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Week In Preview, March 6 - March 12
This week, the teams at Craft & Capital, ICI, IMEA, MFDF, MMI, and WE are hosting events...
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Monday, March 6, 2023
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A 50-Year-Old Firm Enters the ETF Space Via Conversion
The freshly transformed fund is now the asset manager's first ever ETF...
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Thursday, March 2, 2023
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A San Fran Startup Adds a 2nd Active ETF
Two weeks in, the new fund already has nearly $10 million in AUM...
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
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Victory Leads As Mr. Market Smites Most Fund Firms
Only four of the 15 publicly traded U.S. mutual fund firms tracked by MFWire saw their share prices rise last month as markets fell. Yet all of them are up since 2019...
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
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Fidelity's Inflows Rise to $27B
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for January 2023 for money market mutual funds...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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15 of the Best Fund Firms to Work For In 2023
They're among the United States' best large employers, according to a magazine's new list...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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JPMAM Threepeats With $6B
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for January 2023 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Monday, February 27, 2023
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Net Flows Worsen By $7.7B
The Refinitiv Lipper folks reveal the latest weekly U.S. flows data...
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Friday, February 24, 2023
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An ETF Entrepreneur Runs For President
He's stepping back at his startup, while his fellow co-founder is stepping up...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
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Happy Presidents' Day Weekend!
MFWire will be closed on Monday in observance of the Washington's Birthday market holiday...
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Friday, February 17, 2023
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A $1.434-Trillion Month
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for January 2023 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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Jenny Johnson Picks an M&A Chief
The freshly promoted executive comes from a shop Franklin Templeton bought four years ago...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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A $190B-AUMS Firm Launches a Multi-Strat Alts Fund
The new fund is an ETF of other ETPs, including ETFs...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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95 Years, $6.5B In AUM, And ...
Lisa Jones and her team celebrate a big anniversary for a mutual fund that is nearly a century old...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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13 Years In, an Ally to Fundsters Leaves Pershing
The executive is also an alumnus of TIAA and Pru...
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Monday, February 13, 2023
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Reader Rating: 5
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GuideStone Debuts Two Impact Funds
The faith-based fund firm had $15.2 billion in AUM as of the end of last year...
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Friday, February 10, 2023
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Joe Neuberger and a Vanguard Vet Take Over a Fund Firm
The Midwestern asset manager's founder is staying on as a PM at the 34-year-old shop...
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Thursday, February 9, 2023
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A BlackRock Vet Will Take Over a $276.5B-AUM Firm
The executive is slated to join the asset manager this spring as chairman and CEO...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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Schlossberg Will Take Over a $1.4T-AUM Firm, And ...
The publicly traded asset manager's investment chief is also passing the reins...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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Reader Rating: 5
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