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The nation's second largest mutual fund manager has a new leader, but the last name will remain the same.

The drive for boutique fund providers to outsource in order to streamline operations is largely motivated by the largest providers that make it difficult, if not impossible, for many new players to enter the industry and succeed over the long run.

A small but growing number of fund managers are finding that patenting an index strategy can have strategic and marketing advantages.

Ken Pfeil, the chief information security officer for the Pioneer companies, shares the security measures he's taken to keep cybercriminals and malware exploits from affecting the infrastructure he oversees.

Fund companies are known to go too great lengths to try to create alpha for their clients. Some rely on high-conviction strategies - a formula Alpha Architect says it can offer at lower costs. Money Management Executive asked the company's founder, Wesley Gray, about its business model and how it competes.

Mutual fund and ETF companies are always looking for more effective ways to communicate with current and prospective clients. The most valuable way is face-to-face communication.

Abigail Johnson has climbed the ranks of Fidelity Investments, the company started by her grandfather in 1946, over more than 25 years, starting as a stock analyst and working her way through almost every major division.

Mobile apps have become center-pieces of many businesses the last few years, but asset management companies have been slower to catch on.

Pimco may have begun to unwind some of Bill Gross’s market bets, according to changes in holdings data from the world’s largest bond mutual fund.

Should fund companies rethink the ways they measure risk? Amid a rush into alternatives, will fund providers be introducing many more long/short or multifactor products? Money Management Executive put those questions and many more to Aye Soe, senior director for global research and design at S& P Dow Jones Indices, to get her assessment of how the fund industry environment is changing.