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...Fund providers in Europe that until recently saw little threat to their business model of selling actively managed mutual funds appear to be changing their tune....
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...Eventually the mutual fund is dead.”...
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...European mutual funds have never had two consecutive years of negative fund flows, data from Broadridge shows....
...The mutual fund company announced it is promoting Ted Maloney, its chief investment officer, to CEO as of January 2025....
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...Part of the problem is that investment advisors and mutual funds have been running just to stand still....
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...MFS Investment Management plans to launch its first exchange traded funds as early as next year, the company has confirmed, bringing the largest holdout mutual fund manager in the US into the ETF market....
...“This would disrupt funds’ abilities to pursue their investment objectives and potentially harm fund performance,” the Investment Company Institute, which lobbies for fund managers, wrote....
...“The funds will be chosen where the adviser believes the multi-class structure is in the best interest of the ETF class and mutual fund class individually, and the fund as a whole,” the filing states....
...Now it seems even passive mutual funds may be struggling to meet the bar the UK regulator has set in order to tackle claims of fund industry “greenwashing”....
...Firstly, many distribution platforms charge mutual funds — but not ETFs — a fee to be listed....
...In another test, S&P looked at US mutual funds....
...fund offering, company officials said....
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