As 2017 draws to a close, here's a look at what MFWire's readers read this year. These are the three most popular MFWire stories for each month of 2017.

January

• 1/6 - Prepare to Cross a Lot of Mutual Fund Ts: A new kind of share class is coming, in a big way. John Rekenthaler breaks it down for you.
• 1/9 - BlackRock Alum to Turbocharge Growth
• 1/12 - And the 2016 Fund Manager of the Year Nominees Are ...

February

• 2/15 - A Deep Dive Into Fidelity's New Platform: MFWire reveals pricing and possible participants for the new "iNTF program". More than 30 firms and 1,100 CUSIPs are already available, and Carolyn Clancy says they're looking to add even more.
• 2/27 - Fidelity Makes Its Employees an Offer
• 2/2 - An RIA Custodial Giant Creates a "Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too" Fund Platform

March

• 3/24 - Vanguard, Nuveen, and Morgan Stanley Win Big in Gotham: 99 mutual fund shops win at an industry awards show in the Big Apple, and most won multiple awards.
• 3/1 - Four Managers Leave Allianz's Retail Team
• 3/15 - No More Pru? It's PGIM!

April

• 4/26 - M* Is Creating a New Asset Manager Marketplace: Kunal Kapoor gives advisors and fundsters a glimpse of what the investment research giant is working on next.
• 4/20 - RayJay Buys a $27B Pair of Asset Managers For $172.5MM
• 4/19 - Touchstone Buys a National Insurer's Mutual Fund Biz

May

• 5/16 - These Fund Firms and B-Ds Are Seen as Great Employers: A host of familiar names land on new lists of the best midsize and large companies to work for in the U.S.
• 5/17 - Schwab and Guggenheim Had a Huge April, and BlackRock Nudges Past Vanguard
• 5/31 - A 27-Year-Old Fixed Income Shop Is Looking For Wholesalers

June

• 6/30 - The Myth of Indexing: As Burton Malkiel himself lends his weight to a new smart beta player, it's worth remembering that investors aren't really passive, even when they own index funds.
• 6/16 - Top Dogs at RidgeWorth Depart Post-Virtus
• 6/29 - Vanguard Retakes the Lead, and Schwab and Oakmark Also Rake It In

July

• 7/20 - A 2,100-Advisor B-D Will Trim Half of Its Fund Lineup: An independent broker-dealer becomes the latest to catch rationalization fever.
• 7/28 - Three Rise As a $10B Fund Firm's Chief Transfers Power
• 7/13 - 20 Fund Firms Team Up With LPL For a New Mini-Mart

August

• 8/30 - Turner Buys Into the ETF Biz: While shuttering its old mutual funds, the PA mutual fund shop is acquiring a Midwestern ETF startup. Meanwhile, an affiliated fintech company makes a key alliance.
• 8/11 - A 22-Year Vet Leaves Hartford Funds
• 8/3 - Is Flanagan About to Make His 2nd Big Buy of 2017?

September

• 9/8 - A Mutual Fund Legal Eagle Falls at 72: A prominent investment management industry lawyer who once helped run a piece of the SEC died over Labor Day weekend after a fall.
• 9/14 - As Passive Dominates, There's Another Asset Shift Going On
• 9/12 - John Hancock Investments Shifts

October

• 10/7 - The Verdict Is In On F-Squared's Co-Founder: Yesterday in federal court, the jury delivered its decision in three-year-old fraud case brought by the SEC against Howard Present.
• 10/30 - Reynolds Puts a Putnam Veteran In Charge of a Sister Shop
• 10/13 - An NYC Fund Giant May Shift South

November

• 11/17 - A Retired Fidelity Ops Vet Dies at 73: A Massachusetts native who worked at the Boston Behemoth for a decade passed away earlier this month.
• 11/7 - O'Hanley Rises and Passes the SSgA Reins
• 11/14 - After Selling Half Its Biz, a Subadvised Fund Firm Rebuilds and Reinvests

December

• 12/18 - #MeToo Comes to Asset Management: An increasing number of female fundsters report sexist behavior, or even harassment, in the workplace.
• 12/18 - This MF Startup Aims For 50 People By the End of 2018
• 12/19 - Rosenberg Will Expand Am Century's ETF Team Quickly

 

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