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Hungry for healthier returns, more mutual funds are investing in commodities, commodity futures, swaps and options.

There’s a new authority watching over faculty and staff on campus at Wellesley College.

Value Line’s mid-cap growth equity fund, the Value Line Premier Growth Fund, recently won a five-star overall rating from Morningstar.

BlackRock’s exchanged traded-fund arm, iShares, has launched two new dividend equity funds focusing on emerging markets as well as the developed markets of the Asia/Pacific region.

Bloomberg introduced what it called a “step change” in its core business, known as the Bloomberg Professional market data service.

Bloomberg co-founder Tom Secunda and global head of financial product strategy and development Jean-Paul Zammitt are set to make this morning “a significant announcement related to the Bloomberg Professional service” at the company’s headquarters in New York.

That amounts to two-thirds of the value gained in the past year. And was driven by interest in and appreciation of … domestic stocks.

Dennis Sugino, president and co-founder Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based Cliffwater LLC, is retiring, as part of changes in the ownership structure of the alternative investment consulting firm.

Market Vectors, the exchange traded product arm of Van Eck Global, has launched a new exchange traded fund designed to tap into the growing oil and natural gas sector.

Aneser Named Chief Marketer at Lincoln; PIMCO Announces New Managing Directors; Pyramis Hires Jones as New CEO; SGSS Appoints Werthmann Sr. Relationship Manager

PIMCO Makes a Push into Equities; Credit Suisse Suspends High Volatility ETN; SEC Widens Probe of ETFs

This week, the age of the actively managed exchange-traded fund officially debuts.

Hungry for healthier returns, more mutual funds are investing in commodities, commodity futures, swaps and options.

On Feb. 14, Vanguard's 64,000 Facebook fans received virtual candy hearts with the messages:

This is the week that actively managed exchange-traded funds get their biggest booster shot since they first arrived, less than five years ago.

State Street’s SPDR Morgan Stanley Technology ETF MTK announced that it had received a $108,328 payment from a class action settlement related to Juniper Networks, Inc. The SPDR has slightly more than 2.7 million shares outstanding, meaning that the payment will translate into just over 4 cents of gain per share.

Los Angeles, Calif.-based First Pacific Advisors is inviting its investors to spend a day at the beach with the firm. Specifically, the firm is holding its first Investor Day on Monday, May 21, at the Hotel Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica, Calif.

The Highland Credit Strategies Fund has changed its name to Pyxis Credit Strategies Fund.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $6.22 billion to $2.665 trillion in the week ended Wednesday, Feb. 22, the Investment Company Institute reported.

Fidelity Investments reported that its sales of defined contribution plans to small- to medium-sized firmst grew 40% in 2011, reaching commitments of $6.6 billion in assets by year’s end.