Article: Mutual Funds Versus VAs; Do the higher costs of variable annuities and variable life insurance products cause them to underperform mutual funds? Not always.(Retirement Edge)

Article: Equity Mutual Funds Slip 15 Basis ...
Money Management Executive;  July 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... s not the case for mutual funds," Roseen said ... recessionary fears that kept mutual funds alive, the senior ... declined a mere 15 basis points. Whereas 98% of equity ... returns, however, mutual funds' year-to-date ...

Article: Study: Mutual funds lag by 250 basis ...
Pensions & Investments;  April 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... hidden costs in mutual funds and could cost the investor up to 90 basis points in performance ... differences between mutual funds and pension funds ... pension plans and mutual funds to be only 30 basis points per year. The ...

Article: Mutual Funds: Tax Free Yields Shoot Up Nine ...
The Bond Buyer;  January 7, 2005 ;     506 words ...Weekly average tax-free money market fund yields shot up nine basis points during the week ended Monday to 1.33% on an annualized basis, iMoneyNet Inc. reported. The funds meanwhile had a net outflow ...

Article: Get the 'Pick of the Litter ' Bug; Do VA sub-accounts perform as ...
Retirement Income Reporter;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... large-cap blend mutual funds by nine basis points. However, as shown ... products underperformed mutual funds by about 40 basis points. Thus, as a category ... underperformed conservative mutual funds by 65 basis points more than expected ...

Article: Variable Products, Variable Results; Do variable annuity ...
On Wall Street;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... large-cap blend mutual funds by nine basis points. However, as shown ... products underperformed mutual funds by about 40 basis points. Thus, as a category ... underperformed conservative mutual funds by 65 basis points more than expected ...

Article: Public Pensions, Mutual Funds Pay Similar Fees.
PR Newswire;  November 24, 2003 ;     597 words ... ... Some have used it to charge that mutual funds paid unnecessarily higher fees than ... study found that pension funds paid 28 basis points for portfolio management while mutual funds paid 31 basis points. The complete study is available on ...

Article: Conflicts in Side-by-Side Management: Mutual Funds ...
Money Management Executive;  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... professors then compared that group of mutual funds to others in comparable classes ... shareholders invested in the first group of mutual funds earned 124.3 basis points less each year than those in mutual funds where managers do not also oversee ...