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U.S. Bank Wealth Management has hired Daniel J. Rauchle as head of investment management in its Ultra High Net Worth Group. In this role, he is in charge of portfolio construction, asset allocation, manager due diligence, risk management and investment communication.

Invesco has introduced PlanForward Foundations, a set of three toolkits to help advisers grow their defined contribution business.

Barclays revises its inflation forecast; Lou Stanaslovich comments that TIPs will only perform well if inflation rises; S&P reports on global mutual funds holding at least 10% in cash; commodities continue to be volatile; Janney Scott Montgomery sees opportunities in the U.S., the Eurozone and Japan.

Hedge funds around the world are ramping up their technology spending to provide better service to the growing mix of institutional clients they serve and to ensure they're well prepared to adequately meet increasing compliance and regulatory requirements.

“Once the Japanese reactors are contained and other governments have assured themselves that their plants are safe, the world will return to using their nuclear power plants and building new ones,” Malcolm Gissen, co-manager of the Encompass Fund, told Financial Planning.

Advisors must be good writers. Here's a blueprint for success.

Dreyfus has launched the Dreyfus Total Emerging Markets Fund, which will invest in equities, bonds and currencies. The fund will be managed by investment boutiques of Dreyfus parent company BNY Mellon Asset Management, with Standish Mellon Asset Management running the fixed income and currencies portion of the portfolio and The Boston Company Asset Management running the equities portion.

The market's 3% decline in the week ended March 19 may be the low from which the market will rebound, according to BlackRock Chief Equity Strategist Bob Doll.

Investors in externally managed and sub-advised accounts could save about $1 billion a year in commissions paid to brokerage firms by their fund managers.

It's almost exactly four years since the financial crisis began to erupt. On March 21, 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 12,278.73, as the first indications that the subprime mortgage market might crater had surfaced. On March 21, 2011, the Dow closed at 12,039.10, a mere difference of 1.95%.