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The highly regulated mutual fund industry has largely been spared from the post-2008 financial crisis reforms-except, of course, for money market funds which can't seem to move off the regulatory target zone.

There's nothing quite like the feeling of coming out from under a guardian's wing.

Jeffrey Gundlach is starting his New Year the way he ended 2012.

Money market reform. Operations. Competition from and opportunity in exchange-traded funds.

If you're in fund services, the next big growth opportunity is handling middle office functions.

It looks like famed movie director George Lucas is finally channeling his inner Jedi Knight Force to wed long-time fiancée Melody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments.

The end of December was a "dud" for flows into equity mutual funds, reports Jeff Tjornehoj of Lipper.

Making a to-do list probably sounds like a very basic time management tool, but the following approaches can help refine your list-making practice and make it even more useful.

Pax World Management, which touts itself as having launched the industry’s first socially responsible mutual fund in 1971, has hired Judy May as senior vice president of marketing.

Morgan Stanley's Jim Detterick started out by beta testing a career as a financial advisor. Now he applies that acumen to clients’ portfolios.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $37.78 billion to $2.705 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, January 2, according to the Investment Company Institute.

It's a big happy family for Hartford Mutual Funds, which announced today five new additions to its team.

3D Asset Management is giving its operations team a boost with a series of promotions.

In the most recent move by a large firm to help planners solve pressing succession issues, Cetera Advisor Networks is now offering its regional directors, s well as other small- to mid-sized broker dealers, the opportunity to sell their businesses to Cetera.

Advisors anticipate some additional tax questions and continued concern for clients in the high net worth bracket.

Sandip Bhagat has resigned as head of Vanguard’s Equity Investment Group, according to a regulatory filing.

Morningstar named its 2012 U.S. Fund Manager of the Year award winners in the allocation, alternatives, domestic stock, international stock, and fixed income categories.

After another year of record low municipal bond interest rates, next year is expected to see a slight increase in yields, according to municipal research analysts.

Flows to muni bond mutual funds, though still negative, recovered much of their lost ground over the previous two weeks.

The RIA sector drastically outpaced the growth rate of the rest of the financial services industry in the past year, growing at 13% versus 1.3%, according to research from Cerulli & Associates. For our annual RIA Leaders report, Financial Planning ran the numbers to look at the 50 fastest-growing fee-only RIA firms for 2012.