Portfolio

In anticipation of the U.S. dollar's declining value, many investors are busy adjusting their portfolios to get more exposure to other major currencies. But a new research report from Merk Investments suggests that they may not be nearly as diversified as they need to be.

BlackRock’s iShares exchange-traded fund division has launched the iShares Floating Rate Note Fund (ticker: FLOT), its first floating rate fund.

Overall, hedge funds had generally positive performance numbers since January. But May numbers, when isolated, told a much different story.

Fifty-nine percent of Americans are not confident the U.S. economy will rebound within the next year, a survey of 1,011 adults by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards found.

Citigroup has completed an "extensive upgrade" of its electronic trading infrastructure and now says it is providing institutional clients with continuous, 24-hour access to global markets.

Registered Fund Services and UMB Fund Services have jointly developed a turnkey registered hedge fund program.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services has introduced a second generation of its PRIME Elements iPad application for retirement plan advisers and consultants.

Eaton Vance Management has launched the Eaton Vance Municipal Opportunities Fund, a fund that employs an opportunistic approach to investing in municipal obligations, with the aim of maximizing after-tax total return.

Average daily volume in stock trading is averaging 7.6 billion shares this year, according to a rundown of statistics at the market structure panel run Tuesday by Richard Repetto of Sandler O'Neill, the respected industry analyst. Once upon a time, they would call this a doldrum.

Direxion has launched five new daily leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds, focused on sectors that have attracted large assets and have high trading volume.