Portfolio

Focusing on a client niche can boost a planning practice. Among high-performing firms with a target client profile, just 3% pursue opportunities outside of that profile (versus 11% for all other firms surveyed), according to the 2012 Fidelity RIA Benchmarking Study.

Ultimus Fund Solutions has added David Carson to its senior management team as Director of Client Strategies to manage the series trust product line

Rafferty Asset Management, advisor to Direxion Funds and Direxion Shares, has hired a chief operating officer and president.

Asset managers are constantly looking for new ways to gather assets for their firms.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $2.61 billion to $2.631 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, April 3, according to the Investment Company Institute.

The $8.7 billion Vanguard Capital Opportunity Fund (VHCOX) is now open to individual investors for the first time since 2004 and its $25,000 annual contribution limit for individual investors has been removed.

USAA, the financial services company that caters to U.S. Armed Forces and State Department personnel and their families, wants to launch active exchange traded funds

Bill Gross' PIMCO Total Return Fund (PTTRX), the world's largest mutual fund, attracted $32 million in investor deposits in March, the lowest amount since December 2011.

Private equity firms are making it known that they, too, want to pull in retail investors' money just as much as do their hedge fund counterparts.

Attention! San Antonio, Texas-based USAA, the financial services company that caters to U.S. Armed Forces and State Department personnel and their families, wants to launch active exchange traded funds