Portfolio

A meeting at the $79 billion Oregon Investment Council (OIC) last Wednesday resulted in two new investments, Jeff Sinks, communications director for the Oregon State Treasury, confirmed to Investment Management Mandate Pipeline, a sister publication to Money Management Executive.

While the number and size of RIA mergers and acquisitions stayed relatively constant last year, the players shifted sharply, according to a new report released Monday by Schwab Advisor Services.

Hatteras Funds earlier this month announced that its Hatteras Managed Futures Strategies Fund (HMFIX, HMFAX) is now available on the Charles Schwab Mutual Fund OneSource Platform.

Here we present a new look at our Top 50 Bank Advisors list, reshuffled and ranked by percentage increase in annual production (and then we cut it down to just the top 20).

Exchange-traded products are on a roll, following up a record year of flows with a major milestone the first month of the new year.

Jonathan Baum, the chairman and CEO of Dreyfus, resigned from the firm on Monday, Jan. 21, to pursue other interests, Morningstar reports.

Cynthia Friedlander has been named director of fixed income regulation in the member regulation division of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA announced Thursday.

John M. “Jack” McCarthy, who became a widely quoted stock market bull during a 32-year career at Lord Abbett & Co., where he managed the flagship Affiliated Fund (LAFFX), has died. He was 85.

News headlines today are riddled with fines and lawsuits against some of the biggest financial brands in the world, even as regulators crack down and push major legislative overhauls into implementation, such as 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in the U.S. and Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in the UK.

Pioneer Investments is reshuffling its fund lineup including reorganizing four domestic equity funds and liquidating another.