Portfolio

Socially responsible investing has increasingly become hot over the past five years.

A federal judge has declared that Fidelity Investments and the American uni

Here is what investors get told, before investing in one set of exchange-traded notes:

Now, Prima Capital’s due diligence and other research services will reach RIAs and financial planners via the Envestnet wealth management platform.

Norwood, Mass.-based W.E.Donoghue & Co., Inc. has struck up a distribution deal with Mutual of Omaha’s Retirement Plans Division to distribute its Power Income Fund to retirement plan participants.

Federated Investors, Inc. is acquiring $5 billion of money market assets from four Fifth Third money market funds and merging them into four existing Federated money market funds.

“I am very excited about this transaction. In addition to increasing our assets under management, it gives us some new and interesting fund offerings, and access to a premier distribution system,” says Steven M. Graziano, president of Touchstone.

Just five months after agreeing to buy Old Mutual Asset Management’s funds from the firm’s U.S. mutual fund business, Cincinnati, Ohio-based Touchstone Advisors today revealed that it is acquiring the assets of 16 mutual funds from Fifth Third Bancorp.

Natixis Global Asset Management has launched an international hedged equity fund to bet on international equity.

The Exchange Traded Products industry recorded its best ever start to a year, attracting net new assets of $67.3 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a 57% increase over the $42.8 billion gained in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Q1 2012 ETP Landscape Report released by BlackRock.