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Aston Asset Management announced that its mutual fund assets under management exceeded $10 billion, as of the close of business on January 19. Aston surpassed the $10 billion mark shortly after celebrating its five-year anniversary.

A FINRA arbitration panel has ordered Citigroup to pay $24 million to a team of financial advisors formerly employed by the firm.

Amid record attendance and formidable growth in its membership ranks, the leaders of the Financial Services Institute insisted that ensuring the organization’s potency as lawmakers define a fiduciary standard for the industry is chief among their strategies and challenges for the coming year.

As an advisor, your ability to engage in clients’ goal-setting conversations may well prove the difference between them staying with you or going elsewhere.

Firsthand Technology Value Fund said that Facebook is now its largest holding, representing more than 5% of the fund’s net assets. Yelp, another social networking company, is also among the fund's top five holdings.

Savvis has added low-latency connections to an “open access’’ exchange for interest-rate swap futures.

The number and complexity of corporate events persist, even three years after the 2008 financial crisis. Here's a rundown, from Wolters Kluwers Financial Services.

Even as the company sets out on a second round of cost-cutting in Project New BAC, chief executive officer Brian Moynihan said the company considers Wealth Management one of its core businesses – and will increase efforts to build it up.

Even as the company sets out on a second round of cost-cutting in Project New BAC, chief executive officer Brian Moynihan said the company considers Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management one of its core businesses – and will increase efforts to build it up.

Columbus, Ohio-based Beacon Hill Fund Services announced their first customer for its new Advisors Investment Trust product. The product enables multiple unaffiliated registered investment advisors to co-exist in the same registered investment company.