Investment funds

The industry is awaiting SEC approval for dozens of applications, even as Vanguard's shareholder case highlights some of the tax complexity of the looming shift.

The Top 25 Firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has acquired a Denver-based firm with an extensive business in fund audits.

Target-date fund holders who invested through taxable accounts absorbed a giant capital gains distribution because of the firm's flub, the plaintiffs say.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans sided with the private funds industry, which argued that the agency overstepped its authority.

Testifying at a London court from a Danish prison via a video call, Sanjay Shah insisted that his controversial so-called Cum-Ex trades were lawful and that any rumors circulated in the industry were merely due to jealousy.

New rules will require firms to provide more details with watchdogs, including investments, borrowing and counterparty exposure.

The service issued guidance Friday saying a redemption of shares in a money market fund won't be treated as part of a wash sale, which would subject it to taxes.

The SEC's recently finalized rule on private fund advisors will impose new requirements.

Hedge funds and private equity firms will have to disclose more about their fees and face new restrictions from the Securities and Exchange Commission on giving investors special treatment.

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules and amendments aimed at tightening the regulation of private fund advisors.

More art than science, financial advisors can face difficulty in determining what constitutes a "substantially identical" security.

Tax-loss harvesting can eke out some extra percentage points of return — if you don't try to time the market and miss a rebound.

Danish prosecutors allege Shah oversaw a trading scam using a loophole on dividend payouts to reap duplicate tax refunds.

The cash-like instruments have garnered hundreds of billions of dollars since the banking crisis began.

A new paper finds that baskets of single stocks are a better bet for minimizing capital gains taxes.

The study, from a top NVDR executive and an IMF research economist, crunched zillions of numbers to determine the thresholds.

Most studies showing "tax alpha" through tax-loss harvesting assume investors are already rich, taxed in the highest brackets and flush with short-term capital gains.

A number of sustainable investing champions say it's time for the "ESG" label to be shelved and replaced by something less likely to draw attacks from both the political right and left.

Workers were able to invest their retirement nest egg in the famously profitable employee-only fund fee-free, until it caught the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.

Private placement life insurance, or PPLI, is a decades-old strategy that has been gaining popularity among the super-wealthy as a way to protect their fortunes from income and estate taxes.