AMVESCAP

• Swimming with PowerShares

  By Staff Writer  |  January 1, 2008

  When PowerShares Capital Management launched its first two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) back in 2003, a number of observers predicted the company wouldn't survive. At the...

• Shifting Weights

  By Staff Writer  |  November 1, 2006

  The argument between fundamentals on the one hand and size on the other is only getting louder, and the latest round of ETFs from PowerShares...

• ICI Re-Elects Flanagan

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  November 1, 2006

  The Investment Company Institute's Board of Governors has re-elected Martin L. Flanagan, president and CEO of Amvescap, to his second consecutive one-year term as chairman...

• My So-Called Index

  By Chuck Carlson, CFA  |  June 1, 2006

  To say that investors are smitten with exchange-traded funds would be an understatement. Indeed, assets in ETFs have surged more than 200 percent since 2002...

• Expanding ETF Sales and BLDRs Low-Cost Emerging-Markets Product

  By Staff Writer  |  June 1, 2006

  During the frigid winter of 1777, Valley Forge, Penn., was home to America's army. It was there a rigorous training regime under the command of...

• Vanguard VIPERs Find Role in Expanding ETF Market

  By Staff Writer  |  June 1, 2006

  During the frigid winter of 1777, Valley Forge, Penn., was home to America's army. It was there a rigorous training regime under the command of...

• Investors Appear To Shrug Off Fund Probe

  By Staff Writer  |  September 22, 2003

  Sept. 16, 2003 -- Sales of stock mutual funds have not been hurt by the probe of fund trading practices by New York Attorney General...

• AIM and Invesco to Fold Funds, Cut Jobs

  By Staff Writer  |  June 13, 2003

  June 13, 2003 -- AIM Investments and Invesco Funds Group, both units of AMVESCAP PLCADS (AVZ) are planning to merge away 14 Invesco funds and...

• Invesco Funds to Cut 15% of Workforce

  By Staff Writer  |  June 28, 2002

  June 28, 2002 -- Invesco Funds Group said it will eliminate 111 positions, representing about 15% of its workforce, due to weak market conditions. Laura Parsons,...