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Bruce Dirks, former portfolio manager at Fidelity Management & Research Company, has agreed to join ViaSat, a provider of mobile satellite network services, as chief financial officer.

Asset management firms with pro-defined contribution viewpoints may want to think twice about asking public sector defined benefit plans for contributions to their funds.

Hundreds of employees of the country’s fourth-largest independent broker-dealer were directed to head to the firm’s emergency backup office outside of Boston Friday morning as law enforcement officials announced a citywide lockdown.

The ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee is making another push to charge advisors for SEC examinations.

Nuveen Asset Management is making a sub-advisory change to the Nuveen Multi-Manager Large-Cap Value Fund (NNGAX).

What is driving the upswing in assets in socially responsible investments?

Robert Buzzelli was formerly Allegheny Valley Bank’s chief banking and wealth management officer.

iShares has launched four iSharesBonds Corporate ex-Financials Term exchange-traded funds.

As a financial advisor to numerous types of clients, including recent retirees, I often think deeply about the issues my clients face in this market environment.

Beth Mooney, the chairman and CEO of KeyCorp (KEY), and other executives took several questions from analysts about their decision to sell Victory Capital Management this year.

Longleaf Partners is flipping the placard on its Global Fund from “Closed” to “Open”. The fund originally launched on December 31, 2012.

Barclays Plc’s investment-banking chief Rich Ricci and wealth-management head Tom Kalaris, two of the last remaining members of former Chief Executive Officer Robert Diamond’s management team, will step down.

U.S. mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, excluding money-market funds, pulled $6.5 billion in net inflows in the week ended April 17, according to Lipper.

UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) is liquidating one of its 25 money market funds in June.

BlackRock said first-quarter earnings rose 10% as its exchange-traded stock funds drew client cash and assets increased.

Piper Jaffray announced Wednesday that it will acquire Seattle-Northwest Securities, pending shareholder approval at Seattle-Northwest. The deal is expect to close in the second half of 2013.

The market saw outflows to muni bond mutual funds for a seventh consecutive week at $535 million.

The money market fund industry fell victim to seasonal outflows as significant withdrawals by individuals and corporations signaled the arrival of the filing deadline for federal income tax season in the week ended April 15, according to The Money Fund Report.

Establishing mentoring programs and better employee communication, drawing on the expertise of nonfinancial companies and holding special events aimed at women business owners are some of the ways banks can develop more women executives and clients.

The Bureau described the use of various senior designations as “extremely confusing for consumers,” noting that more than 50 different such designations are currently used to sell a wide variety of financial and insurance products.