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Investors wanting in on one Eaton Vance Management fund better buy up now. 

The Board of Trustees of the Direxion Shares ETF Trust has decided to liquidate and shutter three exchange-traded funds because of their “inability to attract sufficient investment assets.”

President Obama lowered his tax revenue demand by $200 billion and offered to start tax rate increases at $400,000 in income instead of $250,000, moving closer to a budget deal with House Speaker John Boehner.

More than 100 advisors descended on the Women Advisors Forum in Boston Tuesday to hear speakers from throughout the profession offer advice on finding new clients, managing a practice, intelligent technology use, meeting special sets of client needs and more.

Only two weeks remain in 2012 and the fiscal cliff is still cause for alarm among many investors. And yet, it may not be that bad. One equities expert expects a short term deal to blunt the fiscal pain, coupled with an agreement to come back next year to deal with tax and entitlement reform.

The largest exchange-traded fund tracking municipal bonds traded at a discount to its underlying assets for the first time since July as states and cities flooded the market with the most borrowing in six months.

All of a sudden, everyone wants to give the retail investor a break.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management named Tracy Tuens, a seven-year veteran of Wells Fargo Bank, to a newly created position as senior sales director for the firm’s Family Office and Advisor Solutions group.

Barclays has brought on directors in New York and San Francisco.

“Go online or contact your Human Resources department now and request an increase in your salary deferral, beginning with your first paycheck in January,” advises Matthew Illian, a planner with Marotta Wealth Management in Charlottesville, Virginia. “The people there will appreciate the advance notice.”