Yahoo! Finance: Mutual Funds News
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| 1. Aegon s balanced approach pays off (at Financial Times) |
| Bonds issued by financial companies may make up a large proportion of the investment universe, but there is more yield to be gained from other sectors and industries, says Phil Milburn, manager of the Aegon High Yield Bond fund. |
| 2. Floating asset values might sink market (at Financial Times) |
| The fight against moving to a floating net asset value for US money market funds is gathering strength. Four large business groups last month sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, urging them to reject the idea of a floating NAV. |
| 3. Justin Meadows: money market fund yields (at Financial Times) |
| The US fund industry is fighting tooth and nail to preserve a unique feature of money market funds - their ability, in normal circumstances, to quote a constant, stable net asset value of $1 a share, even if the underlying value of the holdings differs from this. |
| 4. Screening smart funds for August (at MarketWatch) |
| Playing their cards close to the vest. How else to describe the list of mutual funds that, as we enter August, are most popular among the investment advisers whose advice is most working right now? |
| 5. Pimco: Too Big to Do Battle? (The Wall Street Journal) |
| With $237.2 billion in assets, the stellar-performing fund is so big that some say it can t operate as effectively as it once did. |
| 6. Smart Grid Fund Among Friday s Best-Looking ETFs (at Forbes) |
| In trading on Friday, the First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2%. |
| 7. Consumer Discretionary Fund Wins Popularity Contest (at Forbes) |
| The iShares S&P Global Consumer Discretionary Sector Index Fund ETF saw unusual action Friday as volume jumped. |
| 8. Pimco Has New Way of Looking at World (TheStreet.com) |
| The fund manager finds that GDP is a better measure of a country s bond performance. |
| 9. Which Is Better, A Commodity Mutual Fund or an ETP? (at Seeking Alpha) |
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| 10. Mutual Funds Gained Assets, Thanks to Bonds (The Wall Street Journal) |
| Money returned to long-term U.S. mutual funds last month after investors pulled holdings out in May in the wake of the stock market s flash crash. |
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