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Prudential Investments has launched a long-term growth equity fund that invests in companies from a broad range of countries, including emerging markets.

PIMCO’S Douglas M. Hodge, managing director and COO of PIMCO, on the debate around how much investment managers should incorporate social responsibility into their investing decisions on behalf of clients.

Retirement executives at Fidelity Investments today have a few billion reasons to smile. That’s because the plan provider has renewed its contract with Raytheon Company, a technology and defense company, through 2017. The two companies have a 20-year relationship that began in 1992.

If an industry-wide fiduciary standard is adopted, what might the practicalities of meeting that standard be? Citi’s financial services unit has some possible technology-based answers to this question.

Russell Investments has launched two exchange-traded funds focusing on high dividend yield investments in American companies.

Nearly 54% of mutual funds taking part in a Bonaire Software Solutions study on distributor rebate payments said that tracking and reconciliation is their biggest challenge.

PIMCO's Bill Gross decided to take the active management he used to make the firm's Total Return Fund the largest mutual fund extant and apply it, with some variation, to bonds that could be traded at any time in an exchange-traded fund.

Van Eck Global is stirring up another exchange-traded fund in the form of the Market Vectors Global Chemicals ET, which will bet on U.S. and non-U.S. chemical concerns.

Chicago-based brokerage and investment advisory firm David A. Noyes has hired an executive away from Fifth Third Bank to join the ranks of its wealth advisors as a vice president.

Van Eck Global is stirring up another exchange-traded fund in the form of the Market Vectors Global Chemicals ET, which will bet on U.S. and non-U.S. chemical concerns.