Article: Fidelity to pay $8m to settle gift-taking case ; No admission that traders were improperly influenced

Article: An examination of mutual fund expense ratios before and after the 2003 mutual fund late-trading scandals.(Report)
Review of Business Research;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The improper behavior of some mutual fund managers came to the attention of the...time that they came to understand that mutual fund managers might not always be acting...shareholders. It is also likely that mutual fund sponsor organizations began to fear...

Article: Sites sort through ocean of mutual fund data.
Investment News;  May 7, 2001 ;     549 words ...* Mutual fund research With more than 11,000 mutual...Includes benchmarking data using Lipper mutual fund indexes, customized reports utilizing...research into the trends affecting the mutual fund industry. * SocialFunds at socialfunds...

Article: Group discusses mutual fund mess; Momentum is building for action by Congress, SEC
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  November 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Investors' outrage is building over the mutual fund scandal, and many with money in implicated...advisory group met Friday to discuss the mutual fund debacle and initiatives to overhaul...campaign donations from the well-heeled mutual fund and brokerage industries, and an SEC...

Article: Mutual fund reforms on front burner
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-16-2003 Mutual fund reforms on front burner By MARCY GORDON...Public outrage is building over the mutual fund scandal, and investors in implicated...advisory group met Friday and discussed the mutual fund debacle and new government initiatives...

Article: Sea changes in fund channels means rising market tides.(mutual fund marketing)
Accounting Today;  February 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ...No one can doubt that mutual fund marketers are pleased with their work in the last decade. Assets at mutual fund companies have grown from $1 trillion...distribution channels that serve the mutual fund companies. According to the Investment...

Article: Sharing the Burden of Mutual Misdeeds.(mutual fund industry-analysis)
Securities Industry News;  October 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ......profited handsomely from rapid trading in mutual fund shares-trading that harmed the retirement...announcement marked the beginnings of a mutual fund scandal that drew in the SEC along with...season, the regulatory fallout from the mutual fund scandal is likely to propel tax ...

Article: For mutual funds the scandal is what has remained legal; Too much money flows to mutual fund managers.(Adviser's Bookshelf)(Reprint)
Investment News;  January 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ......scandals of the 1990s - the $7 trillion mutual fund industry. There has been relatively...exorbitant amount of money that flows to mutual fund managers at investors' expense. The...amount of money taken from investors by mutual fund company managers is outsized and little...

Article: REVIEW OF CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS:CARL LEVIN REGARDING THE MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY: FUND COSTS AND DISTRIBUTION
Congressional Testimony;  March 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ......and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Fund Costs and Distribution...the abuses associated with the recent mutual fund scandals. Your series of hearings shows...abuses have sullied an industry. These mutual fund abuses should not be allowed to infect...

Article: SEC endorses 4 p.m. end to mutual fund trading
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ...SEC endorses 4 p.m. end to mutual fund trading By KEN MORITSUGU Knight Ridder...rules to combat trading abuses in the mutual fund industry. The five-member commission unanimously endorsed a proposal to cut off mutual fund trading at 4 p.m. Eastern time each...

Article: REVIEW OF CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS:SUSAN M. COLLINS REGARDING THE MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY: FUND COSTS AND DISTRIBUTION
Congressional Testimony;  March 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ......and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Fund Costs and Distribution...involving mutual funds. Our bill, The Mutual Fund Reform Act, is a comprehensive approach...proposals for strengthening our system of mutual fund regulation. I commend the Committee...

Article: Mutual Fund Board Rule Thrown Back to SEC
The Washington Post;  April 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ...A 2004 rule requiring that mutual fund boards be independent was thrown into...chairman and at least three- quarters of a mutual fund's directors to be independent of management...controversial regulations to emerge from the mutual fund trading scandals, in which some funds...

Article: Bank regulators said to muddy waters. (mutual fund sales regulation; address by Investment Company Institute President Mathew P. Fink)
American Banker;  March 24, 1994 ;     512 words ......regulators are creating confusion in the mutual fund arena by introducing their own methods...delivered in a keynote address to 1,400 mutual fund executives and attorneys meeting here...group represents the nation's leading mutual fund companies, said banking regulators should...

Article: SEC Backs Plan to Cut Off Mutual Fund Trading at 4 p.m.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ......rules to combat trading abuses in the mutual fund industry. The five-member commission unanimously endorsed a proposal to cut off mutual fund trading at 4 p.m. Eastern time each...proposal that seeks better disclosure of a mutual fund's policy on market timing. This legal...

Article: SEC Tightens Disclosure Rules for Mutual Fund Brokers in Wake of Scandals.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  January 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......A day after regulators slammed the mutual fund industry with fresh allegations of investor...brokers to tell their clients whether mutual fund companies have paid them to recommend...so many of the recent scandals in the mutual fund industry have involved a breach of the...