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Many Baby Boomers fear outliving their savings even more than death. Here’s a 10-point checklist to help Boomers save themselves from retirement shortfalls.

On April 12, 2012, AllianceBernstein reported that preliminary assets under management dipped 1.2%, to $419 billion, at the end of March compared to the previous month.

Fred Alger Management, on April 12, 2012, has added Gregory Adams to the portfolio management of the ALger Growth & Income Fund

Denver-based Whitebox Advisors, the $2.3 billion asset management firm founded by Andrew Redleaf, is making a concerted push into the RIA channel with the help of third-party marketing firm Havener Capital Partners LLC.

Exchange-traded funds took in more than $14 billion bringing their total assets to $1.2 trillion as of March 31, according to State Street Global Advisors’ (SSgA’s) ETF Snapshot report for March 2012.

Franklin Templeton Investments says the preliminary month-end assets under management by the company’s subsidiaries reached $725.7 billion at March 31.

Socially responsible investing has increasingly become hot over the past five years with much of that growth fueled by investors' desires to "marry the utilitarian and expressive characteristics of their investments,'' according to Sheldon McFarland, co-author of a new study, Three Hurdles to Implementing an SRI Mutual Fund Strategy.

A new IRS team looking at the business activities of the ultra-wealthy has missed its own goals, reviewing only one privately held company and 10 partnerships in fiscal 2011, according to a Syracuse University research group.

Analysts more than ever are monitoring the ebb and flow of cash into municipal bond mutual funds.

A recent study of Americans’ buying habits found that nearly 20 percent of Americans shopping for life insurance went through their place of work, according to a research report released by LIMRA.