Portfolio

ProShares has launched the ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury. The ETF lists on NYSE Arca today.

New York-based Clear Alternatives is ready to make a name for itself in the asset management space.

Officials at State Street Corporation today have a few billion reasons to smile.

San Francisco, Calif.-based Forward Management, advisor to Forward Funds, today said that it will close the Forward Select Income Fund to most new investors beginning March 30.

BlackRock’s Canadian investment arm, BlackRock Investments Canada, Inc., is now rebranding to iShares the names of most of the exchange-traded and closed end funds previously marketed under the Claymore Investments brand.

Raymond James managed to straddle both the RIA and employee channels, placing second in both.

Mutual fund families routinely, and on purpose, use the capital in affiliated funds as “insurance pools” to offset or prevent cash shortfalls in other funds within family, according to research released by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

You don’t have to act like Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross to close a sale. But you do have to know a little something about human nature and psychology. Here’s a preview of an upcoming story in our April issue called “The Art of the Close” by Rick Rummage.

Guinness Atkinson Asset Management, advisor to the Guinness Atkinson Funds, has launched a new equity fund aimed at providing investors with current income and consistent dividend that will exceed inflation.

Retirement plan provider ShareBuilder 401k has expanded its All-ETF 401(k) platform with five new funds.