Portfolio

Loomis Sayles on Wednesday launched the Loomis Sayles Absolute Strategies Fund, a flexible, risk-managed absolute return fund.

As news comes out of the climate change conference in Cancun, investors are eager to bet on non-fossil fuel technology.

After performance, advisers look for robust support.

“Incomplete monitoring and fractured reporting" makes it difficult for fund managers to see a complete picture of risks from derivatives, the U.K.’s securities regulator said in a draft proposal.

Investors pulled $4 billion out of long-term stock funds in November, according to Morningstar. Biggest loser: Muni-bond funds. Biggest winner: money market funds.

A change in the methodology the Federal Reserve uses to measure who owns municipal bonds has masked the growth in foreign ownership of state and local government debt.

Wealth-X ranks the states with the most ultra-wealthy.

The Financial Services Authority is asking fund managers to improve how they monitor risks involved with derivative transactions.

Ninety-six percent of institutional investors overwhelmingly believe Europe will be able to avoid a “full-fledged crisis,” according to the inaugural Barclays Capital Global Macro Survey.

Variable annuities outsell fixed, but overall sales figures are uninspiring.