What a comparison of a fund's trailing 12-month and SEC yields can tell us.
What a comparison of a fund's trailing 12-month and SEC yields can tell us.
Muni-bond funds continue to experience high investor demand, and Morningstar's Miriam Sjoblom offers picks for core and noncore holdings.
The firm has invested in personnel and tools in an attempt to add more value before costs.
Although some Vanguard funds underperformed their peers during the market rally, the firm had more portfolios in the top quartile of their categories than in the bottom quartile.
Plus, PIMCO plans emerging-markets stock fund, and more.
Plus, Vanguard's new bond index funds and ETFs and Morgan Stanley reopens a star manager's funds after he leaves.
Expense ratios were flat in 2008 but are rising in 2009.