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Investment education company FiPath has hired Michael Turgeon as managing director of Advisor Services. His primary responsibility will be launching enterprise sales and marketing initiatives for the company’s marketing tool for financial advisors, FiPath for Advisors.

Kip Meadows, founder and acting chairman of Nottingham Investment Administration which services more than $25 billion in assets for mutual funds and asset managers, shares his thoughts on the shrinking fund administration field and hedge funds' gravitation towards the mutual fund business.

San Francisco, Calif-based Forward Management, LLC today unveiled its latest offering, the Forward Managed Futures Strategy Fund, a systematic, trend-following vehicle that will bet long and short exposure on liquid futures contracts in commodities, equities, bonds and currencies.

Clients of RidgeWorth Investments will now be able to access a variety of functions and data from their investment accounts thanks to a new application available for the iPad.

So you want to tap into the global markets and find new opportunities for growth? But before you do that, you need to get re-acquainted with the new IRS requirements for reporting the basis of the cost you ascribe to a security or fund you purchase.

At least 50 advisors who managed nearly $12 billion in client assets at Merrill Lynch have left the "thundering herd" so far this year.

Unable to shed a downward trend that first began early last year, ownership of municipal bonds by households fell to the lowest level in two years as it continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to quarterly data recently released by the Federal Reserve Board.

Nearly one out of four pension plan participants invest solely in target-date funds, according to new research released from The Vanguard Group—a six-fold increase over the past five years. Further, adoption of these funds among new plan participants is even higher, with 64% of employees entering plan for the first time with a single target-date fund.

Goldman Sachs has reshuffled a number of senior positions in its equities division in response to recent executive departures.

So you want to tap into the global markets and find new opportunities for growth?