Subject Root Tag

There are a growing number of advisor-focused "value-added programs" that fund firms are using to lure top producing and other advisors to sell their wares to investors.

Women advisors need to stop excluding themselves from male-dominated events if they want to continue rising through the ranks, advisors said at the NAPFA National conference in Chicago.

Brian K. Evans may work out of an office overlooking the Pacific Ocean, but that Left Coast location may just give him the chance to, as Apple's semantically incorrect advertising used to proclaim, think different.

The new platform aims to help banks satisfy growing investor appetite for online trading and self-service investing capabilities.

Investment Company Institute chief executive Paul Schott Stevens said last Wednesday that mutual funds need to make investments in commodities and derivative securities such as futures contracts in order to manage market swings and protect returns of the everyday investors that want the kind of "skills and insights" otherwise "available only to the wealthiest Americans."

For Mother’s Day, millions of American women could use the gift of solid retirement planning. But before offering investment advice, wealth managers need to know the challenges women face. Here are 10 of the biggest.

Tom Nally, TD Ameritrade Institutional’s new president said during a keynote address at NAPFA, that when it comes to appealing to women investors, advisors can't "just think you can change your font to pink and you have it covered."

May 11, 2012: Mutual fund operators are beginning to use cloud services offered by NYSE Euronext, in its 10-month old launch of a platform for worldwide use of computing resources by financial firms.

On May 11, 2012, MME filed a report from the ICI GMM conference.

On May 11, 2012, Lipper said ETFs experienced redemptions of $6.5B for the week ended May 9.

It looks as if the BRICs have seen their best days, but what's next?

On May 11, 2012, Mary L. Schapiro said the Securities and Exchange Commission intends to directly “confront’’ a new round of long-term reforms to the nation’s money market mutual funds.

Chairman Mary L. Schapiro said Friday that the SEC is in the midst of “honest open debate” on additional reform for the $2.6 trillion money market mutual fund industry. But she did not commit the SEC to proposing their net asset values be allowed to float, as a means of preventing a future run.

Fidelity Investments has launched a pair of global equity income funds: Fidelity Global Equity Income Fund -- available directly to investors -- and Fidelity Advisor Global Equity Income Fund -- available through financial advisors.

Online media pioneer Arianna Huffington told attendees of the Investment Company Institute’s annual membership meeting that “there’s no greater stress than financial stress.’’ And the media needs to do better at spotting and explaining potential points of stress, before they occur.

Regulators in nations around the world, including fast-developing markets, don’t know quite what to make of the asset management business, fund executives said.

Tax-exempt money market funds generated inflows for the first time in nearly a month, as $2.84 billion of new cash flowed in and total net assets settled at $274.96 billion in the week ended May 7, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

Municipal bond mutual funds saw a huge week of inflows, as investors continue to see strength in the market.

The painful and embarrassing loss at the bank's chief investment office "plays right into the hands of a bunch of pundits out there," the CEO admits.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished in the black for the first time in seven trading sessions Thursday, gaining 19.98 points to close at 12,855.04 as bank and energy stocks moved higher.