Portfolio

As the buyer base for Build America Bonds continues to expand, Fitch Ratings has created a website so investors unfamiliar with the municipal market can visit a "one-stop shop" for all BAB-related research

Global assets under management rose 16.3% to $49 trillion last year from a year earlier, according to Cerulli Associates.

For three days in late June, advisors, industry executives and fund managers descended on Chicago for the 2010 Morningstar Investment Conference. The audience received insight on the flash crash, international investing and the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Industry bigwigs, including Vanguard's William McNabb, were among the speakers. (See part 2 here.)

According to Cerulli, net inflows rose 1.1%, as nervousness sidelined some investors.

While some financial companies worry about the ramifications of the sweeping financial reform that is set to pass, asset managers won’t feel the heat.

As the buyer base for Build America Bonds continues to expand, Fitch Ratings has created a website so investors unfamiliar with the municipal market can visit a "one-stop shop" for all BAB-related research.

If your clients have been aching to invest in master limited partnerships without the usual headaches that they bring, you now have options.

CHICAGO — Yields on floating-rate municipal prepaid gas bonds with ties to BP have spiked to nearly 9% from less than 0.5% as credit analysts continue to cut their ratings on the oil giant.

During his keynote address at the Morningstar conference, Jeffrey Gundlach forecast radical policies out of Washington that would include higher taxes and warned that deflation and the debt overhang will continue to impact investor for the next five years.

Vanguard's top executive said at the Morningstar Conference that it’s not just liquidity, but trust, and perhaps an overhaul of the regulatory system through the creation of a systemic risk council, to restore investing.