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Curian Capital has launched the Curian Research Select Portfolios. The managed account offerings include two distinct sets of portfolios, one focused on asset accumulation, the other on income distribution.

As the general public becomes increasingly familiar with hedge funds, a new investment approach is unfolding: the mutual fund that employs hedge fund strategies.

Fulltime students at four year schools received about $16,000 in aid this year.

The U.S. and Singapore were co-valedictorians in a new Morningstar report released on Friday as both countries earned "A" grades on a report card that measured the overall experience of mutual fund investors based on a variety of factors including taxation, transparency and investor protection.

Nothing that Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or President Barack Obama can do at this point is going to prevent this country from going into another Great Depression.

Although they have little trust in financial advisers, young American investors feel they are well-educated about handling their own budgets and are optimistic about the future.

Fidelity Investments’ operating profit rose 17% in 2010 to nearly $3 billion, up from $2.51 billion in 2009, driven by strong mutual fund sales and brokerage business. The company released the information in its annual report to private shareholders.