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The SSgA Tuckerman Active REIT Fund is starting the New Year with a new sub-advisor.

After two weeks of devastating outlfows, especially in domestic equities, mutual funds seem to have finally recovered their groove somewhat.

First Eagle Investment Management today is trumpeting the five-year anniversary of the First Eagle High Yield Fund (FEHIX).

3D Asset Management has added three sales executives to its business development team.

Mark Cahn, general counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission, is leaving the agency at the end of the year to return to the private sector.

Investors withdrew money last month from Vanguard Group’s emerging-markets exchange-traded fund, the industry’s largest, after the firm said it would replace the fund’s index.

Global banks, forced by regulators to reduce their dependence on profits from high-risk trading, have rediscovered the appeal of the mundane business of managing money for clients.

Global exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product assets reached an all-time high of $1.9 trillion at the end of November 2012, according to figures from ETFGI’s monthly global ETF and ETP industry insights.

A new report from mutual fund research firm Strategic Insight offers non-U.S. asset managers insights designed to help them enter the U.S. market and succeed.

Montage Investments has added Giralda Advisors and the Giralda Fund to its fund family.

Compass EMP Funds is moving its three multi-asset class funds to a new trust.

Huntington Bank has named Gregory Forbes as Senior Vice President for business development for Huntington Asset Services. Forbes will focus on expanding market share in servicing larger fund companies and institutional clients.

Cambiar Investors, LLC is giving investors early Christmas gifts this year.

The Litman Gregory Masters Smaller Companies Fund has made a roster change.

IndexIQ has announced today that it plans to close the IQ Emerging Markets Mid Cap ETF.

BlackRock’s latest November 2012 ETP Landscape Report paints a rosy picture for exchange-traded products heading into the New Year.

OppenheimerFunds today officially closed the book on its acquisition of SteelPath Capital Management and SteelPath Fund Advisors.

Gemini Fund Services has announced that its Two Roads Shared Trust, which launched in April, will soon include alternative mutual funds from Alternative Road Investment Advisers, Belvedere Asset Management, and LJM Funds Management.

Phoenix -- David Blitzer, managing director, S&P 500 Dow Jones Indices, took home the lifetime achievement award at The William Sharpe Indexing Achievement Awards Ceremony held today at IMN’s newly-named Global Indexing & ETFs conference (formerly the Super Bowl of Indexing Conference) in sunny Phoenix, AZ.

The NASDAQ OMX Group has launched the NASDAQ Global Index Family, which represents more than 98% of the global equity investable marketplace and will result in the development of 24,000 indexes.