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Well, Fidelity’s chief executive won’t personally meet the oracle of Omaha but a contingent of his senior executives will, Fortune reports .

Total money market mutual fund assets decreased by $15.49 billion to $2.622 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, March 21, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Global accounting firm Ernst & Young has expanded its West Coast asset management tax practice with four new hires.

Mutual funds may have been an American innovation. But asset managers will now go to China, Brazil, India or wherever returns can be found, according to Alan Reid, founder Forward Fund Management, at the Investment Company Institute's Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference.

Insurer and wealth manager The Hartford is trimming its focus to a few core business areas: property and casualty, group benefits and mutual funds.

The "race for quality has no finish line. So technically it's more like a death march," according to the inspirational poster that Tamara K. Salmon, senior associate counsel at the Investment Company Institute, was reading at the outset of a session Tuesday at its Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference on the biggest operational risks fund firms face.

Peter Graham is the head of Product Development and Marketing at New York-based Mirae Asset Global Investments (USA), an arm of an Asian financial services firm that tries to provide investors in the United States with access to investments in emerging markets.

PHOENIX - The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections is increasingly bringing along representatives of the Division of Enforcement into its examinations of brokers and advisers.

PHOENIX - Commissioner Elisse Walter told fund industry executives gathered here to re-engage with the Securities and Exchange Commission on a new round of reform of money market mutual funds - and end its "unconstructive disengagement'' on the subject

A shift in American investor appetite towards investment outcome, as opposed to relative return, is changing their buying behavior, according to research published by Casey, Quirk & Associates and the eVestment Alliance.

Leslie Christian, former CEO, and CIO of Portland, Ore.–based Portfolio 21 Investments, has left the firm.

John Hancock has launched an ad campaign reaching out to financial advisors, focusing on the position of trust many enjoy with their clients.

Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. has launched the Aberdeen U.S. High Yield Bond Fund, which will bet on below investment grade bonds.

If you’re just getting serious about social media, here’s the regulatory landscape for social media, as of March 2012.

Here is a succinct list of ingredients for getting seriously involved in social media.

How do you measure social media return on investment?Here’s the story, step by step, as compiled by Barnraisers, a marketing firm in Norwalk, Conn.

Sentinel Investments has announced management changes at four of its mutual funds.

Here is the three-part playbook to consult, as you get serious and more serious about communicating through social media.

If you’re getting serious about social media, here’s the regulatory landscape, as of March 2012.

Here is a succinct list of ingredients for getting seriously involved in social media.