Portfolio

HAGIN Investment on Apirl 11 HAGIN Investment hired an administrator for its first mutual fund.

Whitebox Advisors is making a concerted push into the RIA channel with the help of a new marketing partner.

Investors continue to turn their back on U.S. stock mutual funds. For the week ended April 4, investors pulled $4.27 billion from the funds, the largest weekly outflow so far this year.

Drawn by the independent business model, Douglas King is leaving a 25-year career at Merrill Lynch in Minnesota to become the Los Angeles-based president of Financial Network Investment Corporation, a Cetera Financial Group company.

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Associated Bank has hired Douglas Lee as senior vice president and trust manager on its investment advisory team in Green Bay, Wis.

Even not-so-wealthy clients now have a chance to participate in alternative investments, courtesy of a new mutual fund with a minimum investment of $1,000 from Wilmington Trust.

Van Eck Global’s Market Vectors ETF Trust has launched an exchange-traded fund that will focus on U.S.-issued “Fallen Angels”—corporate bonds that were rated investment grade at the time of their original issuance but which have since been downgraded to below investment grade status.

Saturna Capital Corporation, investment adviser to the Amana, Sextant, and Idaho Tax-Exempt Mutual Funds, has launched the Sextant Global High Income Fund, which bets on a globally diversified portfolio of debt and equity securities.

Market Vectors launched on Apirl 11, 2011 a new ETF focusing on U.S. Fallen Angel debt