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House Insider Bill Passes With New Backers WSJ.com

After a six-year effort, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would formally ban insider trading by Congress, along the way picking up support from some surprising backers—lawmakers who actively trade stocks.
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Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Stock ETFs to eye if Greek debt crisis ebbs Money-fund reforms won’t stop next crisis Don’t write bank stocks a big check
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Investors Put Cash in Mutual Funds WSJ.com

Long-term mutual funds had estimated net inflows of $8 billion in the latest week, as investors continued to add money to bonds and hybrid funds, offsetting withdrawals from equities, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Facebook IPO has many mutual-fund friends; Commentary: Happiest buyers are sellers of the IPO shares MarketWatch

BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Right now, investors are wondering about the Facebook status of their mutual funds. It’s not about funny pictures or sentimental feelings or what their fund managers have been eating, it’s whether their fund has a ...
Fund Fees and the Pimco Effect; Other firms are likely to feel pressure to follow Pimco into low-cost ETFs SmartMoney.com

The business of running and selling traditional, actively managed mutual funds is already under stress, thanks to exchange-traded funds. The new Pimco Total Return ETF, debuting March 1, seems likely to only add to the pressure.
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Trust Me, I'm a Fund Manager; Financial firms are rolling out a bevy of mutual funds that let their managers invest in pretty much anything. Should investors give them the reins? SmartMoney.com

Flatlining. That, in a word, is what mutual fund assets have been doing over the past four years, according to the Investment Company Institute, slipping even from their $12 trillion level at the end of 2007. No wonder investors are ...
Why Small-Cap Funds Aren't Living Large WSJ Blogs

While large-cap mutual funds have gotten off to a rip-roaring start in 2012, small-cap funds are lagging well behind. Only 40% of funds benchmarked to the small-cap Russell 2000 index outpaced it, while just 36% and 47% of small-cap funds ...
Put ETFs and mutual funds on the test track; Commentary: Check under the hood before you take the wheel MarketWatch

BOSTON (MarketWatch) — I was surprised this week to read that exchange-traded funds are “still popular despite not making money.” Mostly, I was stunned by how the article, at InstitutionalInvestor.com, twisted numbers and logic to come up ...
‘Go anywhere’ ETFs look a little bit lost; Commentary: Managed funds have appeal, but need seasoning MarketWatch

LONG BEACH, Calif. (MarketWatch) — One advantage exchange-traded funds have over traditional mutual funds is they can be traded throughout the day.
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Hedge-Fund Clones Aren't Exact Matches Barrons.com

Hedge funds' growing asset base and supposed ability to provide positive returns in all sorts of market conditions have proved a potent attraction to mutual-fund companies, particularly after the financial crisis in 2008. Morningstar cites ...
The Top 100 Mutual Funds; For the past five years, these funds have excelled. Can they do it for the next five? SmartMoney.com

If past performance is any indication of future returns, it's not surprising that investors are skeptical of the mutual fund industry. In the past five years, more than two-thirds of the 5,000-plus funds followed by Morningstar have done ...
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Mutual Funds Draw Cash WSJ.com

Investors increased their bets on long-term mutual funds in the latest week, adding money to U.S. stock funds for the first time since August.
Interview; Professor's Advice: It's Best to Be Bored; David Snowball suggests that the exciting investments may be the most worrisome WSJ.com

David Snowball makes his living as a communications professor. But when he's not teaching, he is also an unpaid mutual-funds guru, the founder and editor of the free, noncommercial Mutual Fund Observer website.

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