Portfolio

Pioneer Investments ventures further into Western Europe and Latin America with a new hire today.

Russell Indexes today announced a global alliance with NYSE Euronext to include the transition of RussellTick, an index feed for real-time, intra-day values for the Russell family of indexes to NYSE Technologies’ Global Index Feed protocol.

Global Thematic Partners has been fired as a subadvisor to the DWS Global Thematic Fund (SGQAX), effective January 31, according to a regulatory filing.

Consumers may be wary of life and annuity products as they confront more immediate financial concerns, according to the Deloitte Center for Financial Services.

Actively managed stock funds had the best performance over 20 years, edging passive stock funds 8.14% to 8.11%. And actively managed mutual funds of all types have done the best in the last five years, coming in at 1.98% where, for instance, passively managed exchange-traded funds lost 1.17% a year. Which just goes to show, when it comes to investing, active management versus passive management "is not an either-or" proposition.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has granted T. Rowe Price exemptive relief to issue actively managed ETFs, according to Morningstar reports.

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Expect T. Rowe Price's first ETF to hit the market soon.

Minneapolis-based Riverbridge Partners has launched its first mutual fund, the Riverbridge Growth Fund, to bet on U.S. equities across all market capitalizations.

CLS Investments has appointment of Brian Clark as a wholesaler, covering Southern California, parts of Nevada, and all of Utah.