Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

This is the week that actively managed exchange-traded funds get their biggest booster shot since they first arrived, less than five years ago: Bill Gross and PIMCO get into the game.

Bloomberg introduced what it called a “step change” in its core business, known as the Bloomberg Professional market data service.

The new design emphasizes simplicity. Bloomberg has cut the 30,000 functions available in its previous desktop product by about half.

BATS Global Markets said the SEC's Division of Enforcement is looking at its methods for developing new order types as well as how it develops its information technology systems.

The capital markets industry will increase its spending 8.5 percent a year on technology that combats financial crimes, through 2015.

Investment Company Institute President and CEO Paul Schott Stevens argues that the SEC's upcoming proposal to tighten the regulation of money market funds will harm investors, damage financing for businesses and governments and jeopardize the economic recovery.

Deutsche Boerse Group said it will be “gradually expanding” its global network this year.

After two weeks of decline, total money market mutual fund assets increased by $2.86 billion to $2.659 trillion in the week ended Wednesday, Feb. 15, according to the Investment Company Institute.

What terms will you need to get familiar with as clearing of what can be considered exchange-traded swaps starts up? Here’s one answer, in a gallery of key acronyms.

The combination of Baby Boomers heading into retirement and the arrival of Echo Boomers into savings programs is about to put financial advisors on the ride of their professional lives, according to the fourth-largest distributor of mutual funds in the United States.

The Great Recession ended 32 months ago. But fear about the sturdiness of its recovery persists.

In 2010, The Dreyfus Corporation gave iPads to every one of its 70 salespeople, to save on Federal Express billings in shipping them marketing materials. Now the manager of roughly $300 billion in mutual fund assets has decided that it should not be presenting its nine boards of directors with bulky binders any more, either.

The sovereign debt and banking crises are not over. But the stiffest headwind facing Western economies? Trade deficits, says a Citigroup investment research director.

If you think social media is all about you (i.e., the points your company wants to get across), think again.

The SEC is about to announce reform of money market funds that is likely to include letting the net asset value float, long anathema to the industry. James P. Palermo, Vice Chairman of BNY Mellon though wants to know: What happens if that part of the mutual fund industry just goes away?

The next black swan in the financial industry is likely to be rising interest rates. And there could be a “good” black swan event: a rally over the next 10 years in stocks, said speakers at NICSA’s 30th Annual Conference and Expo.

A year ago, the firm’s more than 4,000 advisors in the United States had to manually submit each post in advance for review. Now, Raymond James Financials has automated the compliance and publishing process, to speed up communications with customers.

LCH.Clearnet Group said its operating profit increased 81 percent in 2011, to 106.9 million euros. Underlying operating profit was 335.0 million in 2010.

Credit Suisse said its Wealth Management clients contributed net new assets of $4.4 billion in the fourth quarter, even as its investment banking business took a steep plunge that led to a loss for the company as a whole.

J.P. Morgan had a product up its sleeve for its broker-dealers on Aug. 4. That was the date it put the servicing of more than one million accounts onto a new broker-dealer platform, known as Morgan Communications or MORCOM. The online system was to serve both retail and institutional brokers.