Portfolio

Franklin Templeton has expanded its defined contribution investment only team this year with the addition of four wholesalers.

As the asset management industry evolves, innovative product options are being introduced to compliment traditional pooled vehicles.

Multi-manager shop Virtus Investment Partners has added Rampart Investment Management, which specializes in customized options strategies for institutional and high-net-worth clients, as a wholly owned affiliate of Virtus.

Now you can say it is so: Abigail Johnson last month was named president of Fidelity Investments and, effectively, successor to her father, Edward "Ned" Johnson, chief executive officer of Fidelity Investments.

Herb Morgan has a good barometer to tell how hot the market for exchange-traded funds is getting.

Theresa Hamacher was named to her current position as president of NICSA (the National Investment Company Service Association) in March 2008.

Artio Global Investment Funds last month decided to liquidate four equity funds.

Sudi Mariappa, the former bond head and Managing Director at PIMCO who worked closely with founder Bill Gross, will join GLG, the investment management division of London-based Man Group PLC to manage the firm’s renewed push into fixed-income hedge funds.

Columbus, Ohio-based Huntington Funds has launched the Huntington Income Generation Fund, a fund of funds that will primarily invest in three other Huntington funds.

Loomis Sayles is making a hasty name change to one of its funds after losing out on a federal lawsuit.