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PrimeVest Financial, one of the big third-party marketers in the bank channel, launched a website designed to help banks and credit unions staff up their advisory programs. It also will help individual advisors search for new career opportunities across the country.

The fund invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets in a diverse equity portfolio, with a focus on larger companies with market capitalizations equal to or more than $1 billion.

PIMCO is continuing to build out its active equities platform with the launch of two new funds: the Dividend and Income Builder Fund and the EqS Dividend Fund.

PIMCO is continuing to build out its active equities platform with the launch of two new funds: the Dividend and Income Builder fund and the EqS Dividend fund.

While all eyes were on Bank of America’s stock price last year, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch retirement and employee financial benefit plan businesses quietly thrived by pulling in $19 billion in new financial benefit plan assets.

NYSE Euronext said the volume of trading in stocks it handles in the United States fell 10.6% in December.

The European debt crisis will likely continue to cast a shadow on the markets in the coming year, with a full solution to those problems unlikely to emerge in 2012, according to a panel of investment executives from BlackRock, Lord Abbett and Pacific Investment Management Company.

U.S. stocks moved slightly higher Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 32.77 points to finish at 12,392.69 while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 added 2.34 points and 2.89 points, respectively.

Cetera Financial Group has agreed to buy Genworth Financial Investment Services, an independent broker-dealer with almost 2,000 independent advisors specializing in integrating wealth management services with tax and accounting services.

Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ research unit said it has developed a method of forecasting negative and positive earnings surprises of a magnitude of 5% or larger.