Industry

Value Line Funds has combined the Value Line U.S. Government Money Market Fund (VLCXX) into the Reich & Tang Daily Income Fund – U.S . Government Portfolio, effective October 19.

Brown Advisory, a Baltimore-based independent investment management firm, hired Christopher Bartlett as a partner in its Baltimore office.

Morgan Keegan & Co., the brokerage firm acquired by Raymond James Financial Inc., was ordered by a federal appeals court to pay a group of 18 investors a $9.2 million arbitration award.

Almost one in two consumers (47%) say they keep the majority of their assets with banks, up from 44% in 2011. Self-directed firms and full-service brokers, in contrast, had only 28% and 15% of the market, respectively.

The hybrid RIA firm says it chose LPL after a 'Bachelor'-style bakeoff.

Orion’s accounting and performance review software provides SWS advisors with performance dashboard.

Paladyne Systems has appointed Paul Cucurullo as senior director of sales to lead and develop the Paladyne offering for long-only asset managers and investment advisors.

Marc Jimenez, former regional director for Dimensional Funds, a $240 billion mutual fund family, has joined Cambridge Southern Financial Advisors to run the firm’s new Denver office.

Principal Funds’ president and CEO Nora Everett has been elected to the Investment Company Institute's Board of Governors.

Raymond James Executive Chairman Thomas James said he is optimistic that the financial services industry can work more closely with regulators, even as evolving regulations such as a uniform fiduciary standard and the Volcker Rule have started off with the wrong approach.