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Kristen Pelling has joined Putnam Investments to fill a new role focused on large market defined contribution recordkeeping sales.

In an increasingly connected world, word spreads quickly, especially on social media platforms.

Oklahoma City, OK—based Exchange Traded Concepts, an exchange-traded fund platform for emerging managers, has received the green light from the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch actively managed ETFs, Money Management Executive has learned.

Touchstone Investments is closing its Touchstone Sands Capital Institutional Growth Fund to new investors. The fund managed some $2.6 billion as of March 8.

If your website or blog is the hub, then social media channels are the spokes that connect you to others.

We know it's there, but in many cases the extent and complexity of manual pricing can be significantly under estimated.

Forbes has compiled its list of the world's billionaires and a few mutual fund executives have made the cut.

Investors injected roughly $10.8 billion into mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for the week.

Charles Schwab & Co. is in the midst of a regulatory struggle with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that threatens to change how the firm and other retail brokers do business with its clients.

The debate rages on among fund managers regarding the merits of active versus passive management, especially in light of the growing buzz for low-fee passive funds.

A year ago, Ira Cohen would await the delivery a week or so ahead of time of a 1,000-page binder of agenda items and background to prepare for board meetings of the Valued Advisers Trust.

At the outset, the U.S. Supreme Court's latest ruling against the Securities and Exchange Commission-that there is a five-year limit on bringing fraud claims- may sound like a victory for mutual funds and their advisors.

San Francisco-based Shelton Capital Management is launching a “green” fund that will bet on companies that “are leaders in managing environmental risks.”

U.S. exchange-traded fund assets totaled $1.41 trillion as of Feb. 28– up 5.1% year-to-date, according to State Street Global Advisor’s latest ETF Snapshot.

Expect improvements in kasina's productivity benchmarking and advisor insights services with the hire of a new product manager.

Norm Champ has been on the job as Director of the Division of Investment Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission for eight months and a lot of mutual fund executives are nervously waiting for the SEC has in store for the industry in 2013 and beyond.

A year after not-quite-closing the book on one retirement-related lawsuit, Fidelity Investments is once again fighting allegations that it improperly used customers’ money earned in overnight accounts to pay its own operating expenses, Reuters reports.

To make your investment in social media worth it, know what you want to get out of it.

Blogging doesn’t just give you something to tweet, it can help make you an easy-to-find expert.

OppenheimerFunds has launched the Diversified Alternatives Fund (ODAAX), a fund of funds that has exposure to the firm’s alternative mutual funds.