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Man Group, the largest publicly traded hedge fund manager in the world, will buy fund-of-hedge funds assets from Merrill Lynch Alternative Investments to expand in the U.S. The London-based firm will acquire the contracts to manage Merrill’s $1.2 billion multi-strategy investments, and will pay Merrill Lynch $2.9 million when the deal closes and 35% of the management fees generated annually for five years, not to exceed $30 million.

Bill Gross’s main bond fund at Janus Capital Group Inc. received an estimated $769 million in new money last month, bringing assets above $1 billion. His Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund reported assets of $1.21 billion as of Nov. 28. That’s an increase from $442.9 million from the prior month.

'It's mayhem' at firm, an ex-advisor says, following CEO David Zier's suicide.

Facing the threat of competition from Google and Amazon.com, UBS has turned to a company that uses artificial intelligence for help delivering personalized advice to the bank's wealthy clients.

HighTower recruited a Merrill Lynch advisor to join a group that broke away from the wirehouse earlier this year.

The resignation comes in the wake of the apparent suicide in October of David Zier, Convergent's chief executive.

An ex-Ameriprise franchise advisor was fined and suspended by FINRA for allegedly copying and pasting client signatures onto documents.

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The new approach enables workers to know their income at a specific age based on their plan's current balance; plus, mutual fund firms acting as 401(k) providers that favor their own funds and how your Social Security benefits measure up.