Portfolio

On June 29, 2012, St. Paul, Minn.-based Advantus Capital Management is adding an institutional share class of the Advantus Strategic Dividend Income Fund to its lineup within the next three months.

On June 29, 2012, PIMCO’s founder this week gave his readers a bit more than his usual insights on the state of the market.

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On June 29, 2012, Education and healthcare retirement plans are using more target date funds and Roth features in their plans, according to the latest 403(b) plan sponsor survey from the Plan Sponsor Council of America.

On June 29, 2012, Charles Schwab yesterday rolled out the first version of the new Schwab Advisor Center app for the iPhone for independent investment advisors who custody assets with Schwab Advisor Services.

Assets of all exchange-traded funds fell in May by $71.42 billion, or 6% to $1.116 trillion, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Pioneer Investments has made a series of new hires and promotions that are part of its plan to increase its U.S. retail sales team by approximately 25% in 2012.

Tax-exempt funds continued to see negative flows as $1.12 billion fled the funds and total net assets settled at $270.27 billion in the week ended June 25, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

An uninspiring week of frozen yields in the municipal bond market could not put a stop to the inflows pouring into muni bond mutual funds. Muni bond funds saw $625 million of inflows from funds that report their flows weekly for the week ended June 27, compared with net inflows of $555 million the week ended June 20.

New York Life says its Guaranteed Future Income Annuity product has garnered more than $500 million in premiums in less than a year.