Portfolio

If you’re a fan of bonds issued in local currencies, your job just got slightly easier.

Janus, a fund shop known for nurturing growth-fund talent, turned to its value-oriented subsidiary, Perkins Investment Management, to co-manage a new fund targeted to risk-averse retiring baby boomers.

Rate Climate Spurs Fewer Waivers.

Now that Congress has passed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, more commonly known as the Dodd-Frank bill, it is useful to stand back and assess what Congress did and did not do in this legislation. As with most contested legislation, it is not as extensive as some had hoped and, naturally, it is deemed excessively burdensome by others. But in the quiet period following final passage, we can now separate the likely impact of the bill from the rhetoric and evaluate it in a dispassionate light.

The insurance company made a series of changes to its college-savings program, including a new business relationship with Upromise and new age bands in the age-based portfolios.

Net inflows into exchange-traded funds in the first half of 2010 beat inflows into ETFs in the previous year, according to State Street Global Advisors, the investment management business of State Street Corporation.

Investors increasingly opt in to automatic investment accounts like target-date funds.

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Sander Levin Wednesday introduced a new bill that enables Congress to make another attempt at extending several bond provisions slated to expire at the end of the year, including Build America Bonds.

State Street Global Markets Wednesday unveiled seven new indexes designed to help institutional investors map out hidden market opportunities.

NEW YORK—State Street Global Markets Wednesday unveiled seven new indexes designed to help institutional investors map out hidden market opportunities.