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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could be hampered down in conducting oversight and regulatory actions granted back in 1934 thanks to a new bill that passed through the House Financial Services Committee yesterday.

The yield on 30-year Treasury notes at the close of business on Valentine's Day was 3.125%, according to Bloomberg.

The Great Recession ended 32 months ago. But fear about the sturdiness of its recovery persists.

"A mutual fund seeking current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in fixed-income securities issued by developed countries, including the U.S. The Fund is not a money market fund. The share performance of this Fund fluctuates on a daily basis."

James Roche is stable asset sales director for Standard Insurance Company's ("The Standard") stable value products (SVPs). Here, Roche walks through the key tenets behind stable value funds.

What happens if the money market mutual fund industry just goes away?

The leadership team for Citi Capital Advisors (CCA) disclosed in a memo yesterday that the global alternative asset management platform for institutional and ultra high net worth investors will soon be under employee ownership separate from its parent company.

The asset manager cut about 90 jobs this week, including those of analysts, portfolio managers and distribution workers. AllianceBernstein also will consolidate or close some of its smaller funds.

ICI president Paul Schott Stevens Thursday argued that the SEC's upcoming proposal to tighten the regulation of money market funds will harm investors, damage financing for businesses and governments and jeopardize the economic recovery. Here’s his speech.

Had NYSE Euronext merged with Deutsche Börse, NYSE Technologies could have claimed perhaps the most formidable portfolio of trading tools and services in the world. Here's the bill Fixnetix fills instead.

After two weeks of decline, total money market mutual fund assets increased by $2.86 billion to $2.659 trillion in the week ended Wednesday, February 15, according to the Investment Company Institute.

S&P Capital IQ has published a paper that outlines a new method for analyzing how macroeconomic figures can lead to microeconomic results. That is to say, choices of what companies to put in a mutual fund’s holdings.

Growth will be selective, so while some countries enjoy good times others will suffer severe recessions forecast global economy

Seventeen muni groups are urging members of Congress to reject President Obama's proposal to place a 28% cap on the value of tax-exempt interest, warning it will hurt the market and that its retroactivity will reverse nearly 100 years of legislative history.

BlackRock has launched seven iShares exchange-traded funds, including its first fixed-income ETFs to focus on specific industries and mortgage-backed securities.

DST Systems has designed a new program, Retirement Income Clearing Calculator (RICC), which will widely distribute retirement income products to sponsors and participants of defined contribution plans.

Investors poured an estimated $13.17 billion into equity, bond and hybrid mutual funds during the week ended Wednesday, Feb. 8, the largest weekly inflow this year.

Hedge fund manager and long-time gold bull John Paulson cut his gold ETF bullion holdings by about $600 million in the fourth quarter, a second straight reduction that was likely driven by client redemption needs as he remained upbeat on the metal.

Wave Management AG, the asset management unit of the German VHV insurance group with over €14bn in assets under management, has chosen SimCorp Dimension as its future investment management system

Citi has entered into an agreement with Credit Suisse’s Asset management division to provide a comprehensive suite of milled office, custody and hedge fund administration services to support part of its U.S.-based alternative investments business.