Portfolio

Nearly 58% of asset management firms are using hybrid wholesalers as they increase in scale and opportunity, according to a new study from the New York research firm kasina.

T. Rowe Price is gaining new market share as banks and other intermediaries move to a fees-and-advice model, and as the mutual fund company makes a concentrated push overseas to rebuild its assets under management.

Wealth management veteran, Lawrence E. Gore, joined Wilmington Trust as the newest managing director and senior private client advisor for the company’s wealth advisory services business in the Northeast. He will work out of the firm’s New York office.

In an effort to develop its wealth management arm, Toronto insurance giant Sun Life Financial Inc. announced Thursday it is established a proprietary mutual fund company in Canada.

A Heisman Trophy winner and former vice chairman of Citigroup Private Bank, has been named to Wilmington’s advisory board.

The fund family, which will include a proprietary family of Canadian funds, is an effort to bring the investment capabilities of MFS Investment Management, Sun Life’s Boston-based asset management arm, to Canadian retail investors.

Congress should repeal the SEC's 1992 blanket exemption for asset-backed pools and re-examine the appropriateness of the $5 million-$25 million tests in the 1996 exemption.

As markets continued to rise in April, assets held in exchange-traded funds increased for the third consecutive month.

Last year saw the launch of a record 12 new non-traded real-estate investment trusts, according to analysis by Blue Vault Partners, an Atlanta research firm that specializes in this sector.

According to monthly data assets held in U.S. exchange-traded funds rose 2.9% from a month earlier to $830 billion.