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Advisors needs and wants are moving targets and mutual fund wholesalers must constantly adjust to if they want to hit the bullseye.

Mercer has made three senior-level appointments to its global investments and retirement units in Europe and in the emerging markets.

AdvisorShares is prepping another active exchange-traded fund to add to its roster.

Exchange-traded fund investors pumped in some $84 billion of assets into equity ETFs while fixed income funds brought in $30 billion through May 31, according to data from State Street Global Investors.

Advisors and institutions are turning to mutual funds as their choice du jour to access alternative strategies, according to new findings by Morningstar.

Thirty eight percent of fund firms across the country said that they will increase technology-related costs while a total of 17% of respondents said they expected no change in whether their firm's technology costs would rise or decline for the rest of 2013, according to the 2013 Money Management Executive Technology Survey.

A South Florida man charged with running a $13.6 million scam involving nonexistent shares in companies including Facebook and Groupon was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Milwaukee-based Direxion Funds is currently prepping the Direxion Long/Short Global Currency Fund to launch within the next few months.

Classes may be coming to an end for millions of students this month but it is just beginning for one BlackRock executive.

T. Rowe Price Group has added former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to its board of directors.

Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of discussion about socially responsible investing and socially responsible benchmarks.

Franklin Buys Remaining Stake in Alt Shop

A few weeks ago the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority rang an alarm bell regarding the burgeoning alternative mutual fund asset class in hopes that the average retail investor will do their homework before diving into these funds.

Thirty eight percent of fund firms across the country said that they will increase technology-related costs while a total of 17% of respondents said they expected no change in whether their firm's technology costs would rise or decline for the rest of 2013, according to the 2013 Money Management Executive Technology Survey.

Advisors needs and wants are moving targets and mutual fund wholesalers must constantly adjust to if they want to hit the bullseye.

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management has launched the PowerShares Global Short Term High Yield Bond Portfolio (PGHY) on the NYSE Arca.

Equity mutual fund investors added $1.5 billion while equity exchange-traded fund investors added $3.2 billion into their respective funds of choice for the week ended June 19, according to data from Lipper.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest public pension fund in the U.S. with approximately $260 billion in assets, has made a few changes to its investment fund lineup for the system’s Supplemental Income Plans (SIP).

The first decade of the 21st Century dramatically changed the landscape for financial advisors.

Assets in defined contribution plans flowed to target-date and international equity funds in 2012, according to a new tracking tool launched by the Defined Contribution Solutions group at Northern Trust.