Portfolio

State Street Global Advisors is prepping three new SPDR exchange-traded funds to launch early next year.

Regardless of gender, advisors are always looking for ways to find new clients, manage their pratice, improve their technology, meet special sets of client needs, and more. On Monday, more than 100 advisors descended on the Women Advisors Forum in Boston Monday to hear speakers from throughout the profession offer important advice. Check out six smart things we heard.

Asset managers are largely using social media to promote their brands, according to the latest research from Cerulli Associates.

Investors wanting in on one Eaton Vance Management fund better buy up now. 

The Board of Trustees of the Direxion Shares ETF Trust has decided to liquidate and shutter three exchange-traded funds because of their “inability to attract sufficient investment assets.”

Only two weeks remain in 2012 and the fiscal cliff is still cause for alarm among many investors. And yet, it may not be that bad. One equities expert expects a short term deal to blunt the fiscal pain, coupled with an agreement to come back next year to deal with tax and entitlement reform.

The largest exchange-traded fund tracking municipal bonds traded at a discount to its underlying assets for the first time since July as states and cities flooded the market with the most borrowing in six months.

All of a sudden, everyone wants to give the retail investor a break.

Firms aren't done with their acquisitions for the year yet, as evidenced by Schroder Investment Management North America's deal.

The Charles Schwab Corp. has closed its acquisition of ThomasPartners.