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John Hancock Funds has made a number of enhancements to its Portfolio Insight tool for financial advisers, including the ability to compare portfolios side by side and see full transparency into holdings.

Clearinghouses, not regulators, should be responsible for imposing risk management practices on clearing brokers when it comes to monitoring their end customers, says the trade group representing futures commission merchants.

Investors withdrew $5 billion from U.S. stock and bond long-term funds in September, Strategic Insight reports.

Investors withdrew $5 billion from U.S. stock and bond long-term funds in September, Strategic Insight reports. This was a “significant improvement” from August, when open-end and closed-end mutual funds (excluding ETFs and VA sub-accounts) were hit with $33.6 billion in outflows following the downgrade of the U.S. debt rating.

Fidelity Information Services tops the rankings in 2011 of the largest financial technology vendors in the world, according to the eighth annual FinTech 100 survey compiled by IDC Financial Insights, American Banker and Bank Technology News.

Financial Tracking Technologies said its insider trading detection technology has been expanded to cover international markets.

The Hartford is taking part in the upcoming National Save for Retirement Week of Oct. 16 with the “It’s In Your Power Campaign,” based on superheroes.

The Consumer Reports Sentiment Index remained weak in October, dropping minimally to 47.6 from 48.8 the month before but reflected some degree of hope for the economy.

LVW Advisors will also be a member of New York-based Focus Financial Partners network of firms.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 16.88 points to 11416.30 Tuesday in mixed trading. Stocks are down 10.88% from their closing high for 2011 of 12810.54 on April 29.