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Investors are getting fixated on fixed income, in the next wave of global investing. A Q&A, with Gregory E. Johnson, new Chairman of theInvestment Company Institute

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Firsthand Technology Value Fund announced that Facebook is now its largest holding, representing more than 5% of the fund’s net assets. Yelp, another social networking company, is also among the fund's top five holdings.

Exchange-traded funds are like stocks and mutual funds. Except they're not. Here's a glossary on how ETFs really operate.

Vanguard Chief Investment Officer Gus Sauter challenged the exchange-traded fund industry to be responsible in developing new products and also called for greater efforts to educate investors about ETFs.

Exchange-traded funds are like stocks.Except they're not. Here's a glossary on how ETFs really operate.

SEC OKs NYSE Merger; e ETFs Grow 20.6 Percent; Investors Venture Back Into Stock Mutual Funds

You've heard of structured products. These largely were complex securities based on lots of streams of cash in underlying loans whose flows were not well predicted. There was a credit crisis associated with them in 2008.

Mann Dagan Now Trustees Of F Squared Investments; Direxion Names Abreu Senior Sales Director

"I cannot think of a time when ICI faced more top-tier issues that could directly affect mutual fund investing,'' Gregory E. Johnson, incoming chairman of the Investment Company Institute, says.

The regulators charged with implementing the Volcker Rule have posed 1,300 questions to the public, but on Wednesday, at a House subcommittee hearing, they fielded one query they seemingly hadn't considered.

Q&A with Peter Hess, the new president and CEO of Advent Software Inc., San Francisco, a leading provider of software and services to the investment management industry.

Money Management Executive is nearing its 20th year of operation. For two decades, the newsweekly has been providing top executives in the asset management business with the information and insight they need to get their jobs done effectively.

You’ve heard of structured products. These largely were (and are) complex securities based on lots of streams of cash in underlying loans whose flows were not well predicted. There was a credit crisis associated with them in 2008.

Bank of America’s Global Wealth and Investment Management business saw its 2011 fourth quarter net income decline precipitously compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 as lower transactional activity offset higher net interest income and asset management fees.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 30 component companies said they expect to pump up their annual dividend payouts by 12.3% in 2012 to almost $105 billion.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has joined the U.S. Department of Justice in approving the merger of NYSE Euronext with Deutsche Boerse.

inShare WASHINGTON — The regulators charged with implementing the Volcker Rule have posed a whopping 1,300 questions to the public, but on Wednesday, they fielded one query they seemingly hadn't considered.Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., described a scenario in which a foreign firm with no U.S. operations sells a security, as a part of a proprietary trading strategy, to an American firm.

Investors steered $1.43 billion into stock mutual funds during the week ended Wednesday, Jan. 11, breaking a near nine-month spell of investor redemptions that totaled more than $172 billion, according to the latest statistics from the Investment Company Institute.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that it fined UBS Global Asset Management $300,000 for overvaluing 48 mortgage-backed securities purchased for $22 million.