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Federated Investors said its second-quarter earnings rose from a year earlier, but assets under management declined slightly, because of difficult market conditions.

The Senate is expected to vote on the pension reform bill this week that the House of Representatives approved on Friday.

The newest exchange-traded funds to hit the market appear to be edging toward active management, The Wall Street Journal reports.

While sales of exchange-traded funds continue to soar, analysts are beginning to sound warnings about their increasing popularity. One of the latest salvos comes from Marketwatch, which notes that ETFs are increasingly becoming narrow niche.

A biography on New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer that has just been published, "Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer," certainly does not fall short of underscoring his successes in taking on investment research conflicts of interest and putting an end to the mutual fund trading abuses, according to a review in USA Today.

Canada is starting to grow their charitable-giving fund market, with a long way to catch up to the multi-billion dollar market in the U.S.

Janus Capital said difficult market conditions caused its second-quarter to miss Wall Street expectations, as profits and assets under management declined.

A look back at the growth of the mutual fund history over the past 20 years should give a firm lesson to those who claim it can't possibly grow much bigger, according to Bloomberg columnist Chet Currier.

To attract more conservative investors, a growing number of states are adding federally insured bank products to their 529 college savings plans, according to Dow Jones.

Robert Hetzer, a former senior vice president in charge mutual fund trading at Fiserv Securities, will pay more than $600,000 to settle allegations from the Securities and Exchange Commission that he engaged in late trading of mutual funds in his own account. Hetzer, of Hollywood Beach, Fla., was, and did not admit or deny the SEC charges.