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The securities industry is expected to continue at high levels of activity in 1994, but uncertainty over health care reform, executive compensation, and interest rates has created volatile trading and investment conditions., The securities industry was exceptionally active in 1992 and the first half of 1993 with record volumes of new debt and equity issues, secondary market trading, mutual fund asset growth [...]

Mutual fund assets climbed to record high levels in 1992, reflecting both the appreciation of portfolios due to strong stock prices and the heavy inflow of new investments. Continued growth [...]

The financial markets continued to climb to new highs during much of 1991 in reaction to the quick conclusion of the Persian Gulf crisis, lower oil prices, and the belief that the recession of 1990-91 would be gradual and brief. Mutual fund assets also climbed to record levels. Further growth is anticipated for this popular type of investment in the years ahead., Despite setbacks in securities markets in the second half of 1990, mutual fund assets remained above the trillion dollar mark first reached in January 1990. By the end of 1990, [...]

Mutual Funds Although the growth in mutual fund assets during the 1980s was interrupted by the market declines of October 1987 and October 1989, total assets grew almost tenfold during [...]