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Hedge Funds Expand Bets With Most Junk Since ’08: Credit Markets

The Morningstar Awards recognize the best ETF firms as well as Morningstar ETF Category Winners for two classes of investing objectives, Investor and Trader, based on total cost of ownership and performance.

The Business Roundtable, a group whose executive committee includes JPMorgan Chase & Co. head Jamie Dimon, said 21% of surveyed chief executive officers think it’s unimportant to have a “one-stop shop” for their financial needs.

A second quarter report found growth in both ongoing net contributions and positive investment returns, and across a range of retirement account types.

The world’s biggest investors are finding U.S. government bonds becoming safer, not more risky, as the deadline to avoid the first American default approaches.

Treasuries Becalmed as Debt Cap Approaches With Gross Buying

BlackRock’s Fink Is Captivated by Pimco Favorite: Mexico Credit

A pair of the country’s largest independent broker-dealers are the first firms to get the new recognition.

Morningstar, Inc. announced the winners of its second annual Morningstar Awards for U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and ETF providers at its annual ETF Invest Conference in Chicago.

While IT budgets at buy-side firms have not fully recovered from the cutbacks of the Great Recession, front-office demands keep growing in quantity, complexity and required speed of response.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management(GSAM) announced it has entered into an agreement with Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management(DeAWM) to acquire DeAWM's stable value business, with total assets under supervision of $21.6 billion as of June 30, 2013

Mutual fund families have traditionally left the topic of how to allocate certain fund expenses to management and fund officers.

Rob Goldman founded Goldman Small Cap Research (GSCR)--not affiliated with Goldman Sachs--in 2009. He has over 20 years of investment and research experience as a senior research analyst and as a portfolio and mutual fund manager.

Innovation is a constant in any industry, but sometimes in the fund business its mark is not always obvious.

David Rainey likes to take the long view. He's held more or less the same job since 1998, even though the firms and managements around him have changed.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White met with leaders of the equities and options exchanges, FINRA, DTCC and the Options Clearing Corporation following the August 22 interruption in the trading of NASDAQ-listed securities.

For the last several years the investment management industry has seen a seismic shift towards outsourcing middle and back-office activities.

Interest rate and credit risk continue to invade investor portfolios looking for an appropriate hedge against equity investments.

During the crisis of 2008, service providers faced an environment in which they saw their clients' assets decline sharply.

Executives at mutual fund companies, asset management companies and support providers rated client reporting--which included any reporting that is created for the purpose of distribution to clients--as their top challenge followed closely by risk management in Money Management Executive's third annual Operations Survey.