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The commercial technology arm of NYSE Euronext said it began marketing a Windows plug-in that will deliver market data in real time to the desktop computers of traders.

The movement of credit-default and other forms of complex financial swaps into electronically managed and centrally cleared markets may be increasing rather than lowering risk, Michael Bodson, chief operating officer of Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation said Tuesday at SIBOS 2011 here.

Fears over a possible economic slowdown, sovereign debt and not enough capitalization at U.S. financial institutions sent the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Risk Index up 2.5 points to 110.5 in the second quarter. This is very close to the previous high reached in the third quarter of 2010.

Mutual funds’ fair value procedures are holding up amid the unprecedented market volatility that has resulted from economic uncertainty, Middle East unrest and environmental disasters, Deloitte found in its Ninth Annual Fair Value Pricing Survey. This year’s survey queried executives at 79 asset management firms around the world with more than 3,300 fund offerings with $2.6 trillion in assets under management.

Janus Capital Group has unveiled a new online retirement income distribution tool aimed at helping financial advisors keeping their clients’ retirement income evenly flowing for more than 30 years.

Almost three years after Bernie Madoff's arrest for orchestrating the most destructive Ponzi scheme in history, financial advisors are still living with the ramifications.

Mutual funds’ fair value procedures are holding up amid the unprecedented market volatility that has resulted from economic uncertainty, Middle East unrest and environmental disasters, Deloitte found in its Ninth Annual Fair Value Pricing Survey. This year’s survey queried executives at 79 asset management firms around the world with more than 3,300 fund offerings with $2.6 trillion in assets under management.

Fears over a possible economic slowdown, sovereign debt and not enough capitalization at U.S. financial institutions sent the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Risk Index up 2.5 points to 110.5 in the second quarter. This is very close to the previous high reached in the third quarter of 2010.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has hired a two-member Morgan Keegan & Co. financial advisor team, Peter Korcusko and Frank Colucci, in Clearwater, Fla.

Investment Company Institute report finds that an astonishing $178 billion has moved out of mutual funds and equity ETFs in the past 30 months. Could this dramatic exodus from stocks mark the volatile market’s bottom and great buying opportunity for advisors and investors?