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Natixis Global Asset Management has launched an international hedged equity fund to bet on international equity.

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has added a new senior relationship manager and a managing director to its sales and client management organization increasing the company's support for retirement plan customers in the South/Central region.

The Exchange Traded Products industry recorded its best ever start to a year, attracting net new assets of $67.3 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a 57% increase over the $42.8 billion gained in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Q1 2012 ETP Landscape Report released by BlackRock.

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There were 7,693 mutual funds at the end of February 2012, according data from the Investment Company Institute.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 124.80 points to end at 13,074.75 Wednesday as investors weighed the implications of the Fed’s latest policy meeting and cast a wary eye toward Europe.

Davidson Fixed Income Management (DFIM) has acquired SeaCap Investment Advisors, a fixed-income portfolio manager for institutional and individual clients. DFIM is part of Davidson Companies, the financial services holding company that is the parent of D.A. Davidson & Co., a broker-dealer.

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has added a new senior relationship manager and a managing director to its sales and client management organization increasing the company's support for retirement plan customers in the South/Central region.

The Exchange Traded Products (ETP) industry recorded its best ever start to a year, attracting net new assets of $67.3billion in the first quarter of 2012, a 57% increase over the $42.8billion gained in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Q1 2012 ETP Landscape Report released by BlackRock. The first quarter 2011 figure had previously been the best annual start on record.

Investors continue to spurn mutual funds that invest long-term in U.S. stocks, according to the latest statistics from the Investment Company Institute. For the week ended March 28, investors pulled $3.53 billion from domestic stock funds, the largest weekly outflow so far this year.