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Canada's Industry Regulatory Organization has proposed the implementation of single-stock circuit breakers.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Jennifer B. McHugh as acting director of the division of investment management, replacing Andrew “Buddy” Donohue, who left Friday after four years heading the division.

The FBI raided the offices of three hedge funds Monday, beginning its investigation into insider trading, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter. The FBI is planning to raid additional hedge funds, they said.

New York Life Insurance Monday launched a new advertising campaign aimed at financial advisers called, “Let’s Give Americans Their Pensions Back.”

The average 401(k) retirement account rose nearly 32%, 31.9%, in 2009, according to a report issued Monday by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Investment Company Institute. The average balance among those who consistently contributed to their 401(k) plan reached $109,723 at year-end 2009, up from $61.106 at year-end 2003—for an annual growth rate of 10.5%.

Absolute-return funds may only comprise $140 billion, a scant 1.2% of the $11.26 trillion in mutual funds, but that will grow to 10% to 15% over the next decade, predicts Putnam Investments President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Reynolds.

Stephen Wedel, an LPL adviser and founding partner of Four Seasons Wealth Management in St. Louis, is gathering a lot of assets by investing his clients' money in alternatives, including non-traded real estate investment trusts, oil-and-gas limited partnerships, managed futures and private equity.

If there's still cash on the sidelines, it doesn't belong to millionaires, according to U.S. Bank's Millionaire Investor Insights Annual Survey.

On November 1, we reported on how Dreyfus Corp., manager of more than $400 billion in mutual funds and separately managed accounts, was giving iPads to all of its 70 salespeople, across three divisions.

Bay Colony Partners has named Paul G. Escobar senior vice president of its new wealth management division.

The settlement of a lawsuit involving one of the U.S.'s largest custodian banks is shedding light on just how much fund managers and their plan sponsor clients are losing from inefficient executions of foreign exchange trades.

You're asking managers of your funds to react to changing market conditions every day. Scores of managers, scores of funds, nationally and globally.

The papers reported over the weekend that the SEC, FBI and the office of Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara are readying insider-trading charges against numerous financial professionals.

Two former back office assistants of Bernard Madoff were arrested Thursday, after the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday charged the employees with helping to create phony account statements for his multibillion dollar fraud.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating a complex $1 billion investment deal Citigroup Inc. arranged leading up to the financial crisis.

College savings funds have slashed fees this year, Morningstar reports, making them worth another look.

AllianceBernstein has launched the AllianceBernstein International Discovery Equity portfolio, a bottom-up fund that will look for small- and mid-cap companies outside the U.S. with strong prospective earnings growth, valuation and management.

Stock funds saw net inflows for the fourth time in the past five weeks, netting $1.62 billion for the week ended Nov. 10, the Investment Company Institute said.

Despite the growing argument that buy-and-hold investing and diversification no longer make sense, Burton Malkiel, Princeton economics professor and author of “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday that is absolutely not true.

IndexIQ, an innovator in hedge fund replication and index-based alternative investments, has partnered with institutional consulting firm Rocaton Investment Advisors to bring alternative investments to small and mid-sized 401(k) plans. Rocaton has also made a minority investment in IndexIQ.