”Lipper” News

Lipper To Update Its Fund Categories

Fund shareholders are about to get more help. Research firm Lipper Inc. is making major changes to its fund classifications.
02 28 2008 5:18AM (...more)

Europeans 'pay far more' in fees

European investors are paying twice as much in distribution fees for mutual funds as investors in the US, according to a ground-breaking study of European fee levels.
10 15 2007 9:36PM (...more)

Baird Intermediate Muncipal Bond Fund Navigates Uncertainty

Challenges Persist; Important for Municipal Bond Investors to be Aware of Risks Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) December 23, 2008 -- Baird Intermediate Municipal Bond Fund has navigated a variety of markets, but none like
12 24 2008 2:05PM (...more)

Funds' 1st Qtr returns looking better than 4th Qtr

NEW YORK – It might be safe now for investors to open both eyes when they look at their quarterly mutual fund statements . The news won't be good, as it was two years ago when the stock market was still churning higher.
03 28 2009 5:07PM (...more)

India funds dominate world top-100 stk funds in Q2

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Fifty one India -focused funds were among the world's top 100 performing stock funds in the quarter to June as domestic shares leapt by nearly half, recording their biggest surge in 17 years, data from fund tracker
07 4 2009 9:01PM (...more)

Study Shows Increases in Mutual Fund Fees

In a double whammy for investors, stock funds became marginally more expensive to own even as their value plummeted during the bottoming out of the market, according to new data from Lipper .
11 12 2009 11:23PM (...more)

Legg's Miller: No clear case for buying financials

BOSTON (Reuters) - Bill Miller, stock picker at U.S. asset manager Legg Mason Inc ( LM .N), said on Wednesday financial stocks appear to have hit a "capitulation low" in mid-July but added it was not clear if they should be bought now.
07 31 2008 11:55AM (...more)

Mutual funds show heavy losses for 2008

NEW YORK – There was one safe bet that mutual fund investors could make in 2008 — that the stock market was a place to lose a lot of money. Funds' performance stats for the year to date show that Wall Street's
12 27 2008 1:39PM (...more)

Manager Plans Funds Of ETFs For Retirement

A New Jersey asset manager is looking to build an income-generating fund of exchange traded funds as it attempts to get ETFs into the 401(k) market.
01 17 2008 3:28PM (...more)

ETFs Wiggle Into Plans As Mutual Fund Assets

A small New Jersey fund firm is making a bid to get exchange traded funds into 401(k) plans.
06 26 2008 2:58PM (...more)