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Mutual fund research companies Access Data and Strategic Insight have entered into a partnership pooling together their resources for financial data gathering.

State Street Corporation unveiled the State Street Fund Insights Valuation Toolkit to provide timely industry insights for fund managers and directors and help them better manage data.

What exactly makes an alternative mutual fund “alternative”? According to Cindy Erickson Zarker, director at research firm Cerulli Associates, the definition of what constitutes an alternative investment fund has changed markedly since 2008.

Mutual funds may have been an American innovation, but asset managers will now go to China, Brazil, India or wherever returns can be found, said Alan Reid, founder of Forward Fund Management, at the Investment Company Institute’s Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference.

The operator of the Frankfurt Exchange, Eurex derivatives market and Clearstream clearinghouse plans the suit in order to recoup some of its merger costs and to clear the way to potentially make a future deal in which it could expand its derivatives operation.

In January, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority released Regulatory Notice 12-03 regarding heightened supervision of “complex products.”

The Altman Group, an affiliate of American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, has rebranded to AST Fund Solutions, LLC and formally launched its new brand at the 2012 Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference held this week in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Castle Rock Investment Company has added Kristen Sanchez as Director of Communications. In her new role, Sanchez will gdevelop and implement a strategy to effectively communicate the firmfs ability to help plan sponsors reduce their liability while optimizing their plans,h according to the firm.

What exactly makes an alternative mutual fund “alternative”?

Mutual funds may have been an American innovation. But asset managers will now go to China, Brazil, India or wherever returns can be found, said Alan Reid, founder of Forward Fund Management, at the Investment Company Institute’s Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference.