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Franklin Templeton Investments has launched the Templeton Frontier Markets Fund in Canada, which will invest at least 80% of its portfolio in 61 countries in the very early stages of development, such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Romania, Jordan, Tunisia, Columbia, Zambia, Paraguay and Kenya. International investing expert Mark Mobius will run the fund.

With loan demand still weak in many areas of the country, more and more bankers are starting to believe that their banks will need to merge with other institutions to achieve meaningful growth.

In the battle over Dodd-Frank implementation, large U.S. banks may do well to remember the story of the boy who cried wolf.

Ever wonder how much it might cost to properly promote a book or one big initiative? Given the importance of either scenario, you may decide it makes sense to work with a PR firm. You have a lot at stake and should make the most of things.

The earthquake, tsunami and ensuing damage to nuclear power plants that rocked Japan in early March were blamed for a good chunk of the slowdown that hit the U.S. economy this spring. But now Moody’s Analytics is reporting that half of the loss of output in Japanese economic and industrial activity resulting from the disaster has rebounded, and the outlook for 2012 is for 3.2% growth.

It turns out, talk of Bank of America's proposed settlement with a group of institutional investors that suffered steep financial losses investing in mortgage-backed security issued by mortgage loan provider Countrywide Financial Corp. may be a bit premature.

Cohen & Steers, an asset manager specializing in real estate, predicts that U.S. REITs will boost dividends by 10% a year for the next five years.

Franklin Templeton Investments has launched the Templeton Frontier Markets Fund in Canada, which will invest at least 80% of its portfolio in 61 countries in the very early stages of development, such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Romania, Jordan, Tunisia, Columbia, Zambia, Paraguay and Kenya. International investing expert Mark Mobius will run the fund.

Fidelity Investments this week named Scott Couto as the new president of its Financial Advisor Solutions unit where he will oversee the firm's product suite, investment consulting services, product analysis and marketing endeavors.

Pyramis Global Advisors, Fidelity Investments’ institutional business, has established a cash management business in London to offer a suite of money market and other cash management solutions in the world’s major currencies.