Finance

The first of her family to work in financial services, Dina Santoro leads the strategic product and marketing agenda for Voya Investment Management.

In a bid to further enhance its capabilities for advisors, the firm is also slashing ETF transaction fees on select funds later this year.

Since joining Mackay Shields as an investment management assistant 46 years ago, Lucille Protas is now president, executive managing director and COO.

Since making the decision to join Jeffrey Gundlach at DoubleLine, Luz Padilla now oversees a 16-person team with nearly $9 billion in AUM.

Since starting her career at Vanguard more than a decade ago, Denise Krisko has launched her own sub-advisory business that manages $4.5 billion.

The hiring will “reflect the changing nature of fund management,” a company spokeswoman said.

Advisor headcount reached 2,160 advisors for the first quarter, up a net 43 from the year-ago period.

The mutual funds and ETFs that ranked at the bottom of the sector still benefited from a “long-running bull market,” an expert says.

As chief research strategist and portfolio manager at AlphaSimplex, Kathryn Kaminski is involved in the oversight of $6 billion in investment products.

With an eye on a future sale, the $48B RIA wants to build enterprise value.

Amid all available career paths, “I think [asset management] just found me," said Julie Genjac, managing director of strategic markets at Hartford Funds.

Michael Arougheti says the move his firm took last year has already boosted stock liquidity and expects it will lure more investors to alternatives.

The Invesco QQQ Trust dropped as much as 0.6% after Google’s parent company reported first-quarter sales below Wall Street estimates.

The firm joins a growing roster of asset managers taking advantage of new tax breaks for investing in low-income communities.

CEO Walt Bettinger says advisors tell him they aren’t worried about the new pricing model.

The discussions, which have since been abandoned, centered on a REIT with a market value of $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

The allegation was laid out in an SEC order, which hit a U.S. unit of the firm with a $500,000 penalty.

The firm is looking at a range of “different opportunities” for potential wealth management deals, CEO Jim Cracchiolo says.

The company hopes to recruit new advisors by taking a version of its home office tour on the road.

One theory for underperformance has been the long steady gains in markets since the financial crisis.