Portfolio

Municipal bond mutual funds saw inflows into weekly-reporting funds, at $22 million, for the first time in 10 weeks.

Advisors debate the merits of alternative investing for their clients at NAPFA in Las Vegas.

A new study attempts to quantify the very real effect that low interest rates and muted yields in certain asset classes could have on investors' retirement planning.

Fidelity Investments has rolled out a target volatility strategy, the Fidelity VIP Target Volatility Portfolio. The portfolio seeks to manage total return volatility within a target range.

Bruce Karpati, the former national chief enforcement officer of the SEC's asset management unit, has been named chief compliance officer for Prudential Investments.

“This is not an easy business,” Carson told an audience on Thursday of over 500 advisors at the 24th Peak Excell Meeting. “It is a rewarding but difficult business … and we have to constantly reinvest and reinvent.”

TIAA-CREF has appointed Robert Leary as executive vice president and president of TIAA-CREF Asset Management, effective June 24, 2013.

During market bubbles a lot of details get overlooked, according to Dawn Bennett. With the Dow hitting a new high of 15,000, we have to ask ourselves – what are we missing? How long can this last?

Legg Mason filed with the SEC yesterday to launch the Western Asset Ultra Short Obligations Fund, which will be sub-advised by its subsidiary, Western Asset Management Company,

WisdomTree filed with the SEC yesterday to register the S&P 500 Managed Distribution Fund. The fund will track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the S&P 500 Managed Distribution Index.