Portfolio

A bias toward domestic investment is understandable, but the U.S., big as it is, is not the world. We exist in a global economy and for advisors and their clients to restrict their thinking to within our borders means missing out on some tremendous companies and potentially lucrative investments.

First Trust Advisors L.P. will launch the First Trust Senior Loan Fund (FTSL), its fourth actively managed ETF, on May 2. The fund will bring the firm’s total number of ETFs to 76.

Fixed-income exchange-traded funds have made big strides in asset gathering over the past five years, rising from $53.7 billion in 2008 to $229.1 billion by March of 2013, according to Lipper.

BMO Global Asset Management has named John Boritzke, managing director, as head of fixed income.

RIA firms can learn from the smart decisions and big mistakes made by Sierra Investment Management of Los Angeles.

For our ranking, we used a weighted average with five different variables (growth in team assets, growth in team production, average production per advisor, number of FAs manager oversees, and number of LBEs manager oversees).

Multistrategy alternative mutual funds experienced strong asset growth of 37.4% in 2012 compared to single strategy at 17%, according to Cerulli’s latest U.S. Monthly Product Trends.

Financial advisors underestimate their clients’ interests in philanthropy, and consequently miss out on opportunities to tap into those passions and expand those relationships.

Henderson Global Investors has added a new fund to its repertoire utilizing the credit portfolio team it lifted out from Delaware Investments in February.

Now that the S&P 500 is back in the news for hitting a new high, investors appear to be ready to start putting money back into stocks again. Still, Gary Stroik wonders if the timing of this new-found enthusiasm isn’t a bit instructive.