Portfolio

Vanguard is planning to launch an actively managed emerging markets equity fund that will be managed by four investment advisors.

Invesco has introduced PlanForward Foundations, a set of three toolkits to help advisers grow their defined contribution business.

Hedge funds around the world are ramping up their technology spending to provide better service to the growing mix of institutional clients they serve and to ensure they're well prepared to adequately meet increasing compliance and regulatory requirements.

Dreyfus has launched the Dreyfus Total Emerging Markets Fund, which will invest in equities, bonds and currencies. The fund will be managed by investment boutiques of Dreyfus parent company BNY Mellon Asset Management, with Standish Mellon Asset Management running the fixed income and currencies portion of the portfolio and The Boston Company Asset Management running the equities portion.

The market's 3% decline in the week ended March 19 may be the low from which the market will rebound, according to BlackRock Chief Equity Strategist Bob Doll.

It's almost exactly four years since the financial crisis began to erupt. On March 21, 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 12,278.73, as the first indications that the subprime mortgage market might crater had surfaced. On March 21, 2011, the Dow closed at 12,039.10, a mere difference of 1.95%.

The 171 respondents to the 2011 Money Management Executive Compensation Study were asked to express themselves in their own words on their level of satisfaction with their total compensation (base salary, bonus and benefits).

In Money Management Executive's first survey of its readership on their personal "profit" from this industry, the piggy bank looks full to about half the executives and managers polled ("Half Satisfied," p. 1). And not, to the other half.

The year had started off so well.

Despite heightened patches of political and economic instability around the globe in the first couple of months of 2011, many hedge funds of various strategies found ways to thrive, according to figures from Morningstar.