Portfolio

JPMorgan's new callable commercial product is gaining momentum in the municipal market, receiving high demand from investors and catching on with others in the industry.

For the week ended Jan. 16, equity mutual funds attracted an estimated $9.32 billion in inflows, down from the previous week’s huge $14.33 billion inflow but nearly three times greater than last year’s record $3.52 billion inflow in early February.

Jacques Longerstaey has joined F-Squared Investments as a senior vice president of investments.

Pioneer Investments is reshuffling its fund lineup including reorganizing four domestic equity funds and liquidating another.

BlackRock is expanding its suite of alternative funds by launching the BlackRock Global Long/Short Equity Fund (BDMAX, BDMIX), which will bet on equity markets across the US and international developed markets.

Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., said the firm will seek to capture gains in emerging market currencies through a new actively-managed exchange-traded fund.

Institutional investors are currently showing more interest in environmental, social, and governance investing, according to new research from Boston-based global analytics firm Cerulli Associates.

It’s $20 billion and counting for exchange-traded fund purveyor WisdomTree Investments.

Charles Schwab has added five new funds to its retirement lineups, the San Francisco company announced today.

The amount of money flowing into annuities declined last year more than 6% from prior-year levels, according to a report from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.