Portfolio

This is the week that actively managed exchange-traded funds get their biggest booster shot since they first arrived, less than five years ago: Bill Gross and PIMCO get into the game.

Joshua Levine, a former head of the America’s institutional sales team at The Permal Group, has joined BlackRock to lead the firm’s public and corporate pension plan effort in the East Coast.

Hungry for healthier returns, more mutual funds are investing in commodities, commodity futures, swaps and options.

There’s a new authority watching over faculty and staff on campus at Wellesley College.

Value Line’s mid-cap growth equity fund, the Value Line Premier Growth Fund, recently won a five-star overall rating from Morningstar.

BlackRock’s exchanged traded-fund arm, iShares, has launched two new dividend equity funds focusing on emerging markets as well as the developed markets of the Asia/Pacific region.

Bloomberg introduced what it called a “step change” in its core business, known as the Bloomberg Professional market data service.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average trimmed off 1.74 points to close at 12,982.95 Friday while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 added 6.77 points and 2.28 points, respectively.

That amounts to two-thirds of the value gained in the past year. And was driven by interest in and appreciation of...domestic stocks.

That amounts to two-thirds of the value gained in the past year. And was driven by interest in and appreciation of … domestic stocks.