The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged Ameriprise with selling retirement - account customers high - cost
mutual fund share classes when less - expensive share classes were available.
If broker - dealers adopt NextShares rather than mandating
new mutual fund share classes, funds will avoid millions in additional share class expenses.
I downloaded 3 - year annualized total returns, as of April 2015 based upon monthly data, of small - cap active and passive
mutual fund share classes in the Morningstar database.
An added complication: In all four categories we're analyzing here, Vanguard has both ETFs and so - called Admiral Shares, which is its lowest -
cost mutual fund share class.
Plaintiffs argue it was inappropriate to allow each of these recordkeepers to supply the plans with a separate menu of investment choices
including mutual fund share classes that charged higher fees than other alternatives that offered the same investment strategies or less expensive share classes of the exact same investment fund — or both.
The watchdog won't recommend financial penalties for advisors who self - report receipt of 12b - 1 fees in
recommending mutual fund share classes when lower - priced share classes of the same mutual fund were available.
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What mutual fund share class letters really mean (A, B, C, and other types shares), and why financial advisors really tout one kind over another.
A number of broker - dealers have responded by asking fund sponsors to introduce a brand
new mutual fund share class — unique to that firm — that level - sets compensation and marketing support (revenue - sharing) across fund providers.
Plaintiffs argue it was inappropriate to allow three recordkeepers to supply the plans with a separate menu of investment choices,
including mutual fund share classes that charged higher fees than other alternatives that offered the same investment strategies or less expensive share classes of the exact same investment fund — or both.
The SEC is very clear in those few times when it says it may not fully prosecute prior securities law violations; a good example of how the SEC tends to approach those instances was its recent offer to investment advisers with potential fiduciary duty violations in connection with
mutual fund share class selections to voluntarily discuss those violations with the SEC.
Mutual Fund Share -
mutual fund share classes are mutual funds that are identical in product, but a have a defense in fee structure, designated by alphabetic symbol after the funds name... A class A, has a front end load (a fee at the time of the purchase of the fund), a class B share has a back end load.
Ameriprise cooperated with the Commission and voluntarily identified the affected accounts, issued payments including interest to the affected customers, and converted eligible customers to
the mutual fund share class with the lowest expenses for which they are eligible, at no cost.
According to the SEC's order, Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. disadvantaged certain retirement account customers by failing to ascertain their eligibility for less expensive
mutual fund share classes.
In particular, Morningstar has measured a strong increase in the offering of two relatively new
mutual fund share classes, known as «transactional» shares and «clean» shares.
Cerulli's report, «U.S. Products and Strategies 2016: Identifying Opportunities for Active Management,» examines strategies for active managers; trends in
mutual fund share classes and pricing; exchange - traded funds; strategic beta; environmental, social and governance (ESG) and socially responsible investing (SRI); financial advisers» product preferences; the institutional and retail product landscapes; and innovations in target - date funds.
Consider the Vanguard Total Bond Market Fund, which has
both a mutual fund share class (VBMFX) and an ETF share class (BND).
The ETF is technically part of a larger Vanguard portfolio that includes S&P 500
mutual fund share classes, an arrangement with little to no practical impact on VOO investors.