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The SEC is focusing on computer-driven exchanges, including BATS Global Markets, as platforms for high-frequency trading firms to gain an unfair advantage over other investors.

Affiliated Managers Group acquires the nation’s third-largest RIA and CEO Sean Healey says the Boston-based firm will be looking to make more deals down the road to bulk up its wealth management business.

Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. has launched the Aberdeen U.S. High Yield Bond Fund, which will bet on below investment grade bonds.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lopped off 78.48 points to finish at 13,046.14 Thursday as investors reacted to some disconcerting economic data at home and abroad.

Sentinel Investments has announced management changes at four of its mutual funds.

This week, IRA expert Ed Slott fields questions about withdrawal limits for non-designated beneficiaries and required distributions.

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Paul Harvey has joined Stifel Nicolaus Weisel's European investment banking team as a managing director in the firm's London office, heading up its European technology practice.

Fund administrator Gemini Fund Services has launched its third shared mutual fund trust, the Northern Lights Fund Trust III (NLFT III).

Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Harriet Jacobs regional sales director for its Government Markets business. Jacobs is based in Los Angeles and reports to Brent Neese, vice president of Government Markets.

Don’t be surprised to see a Vanguard coffee truck at a corner near you.

The uncertainty is ‘unbelievably disruptive’ for advisors at a time when clients are beginning to have more confidence in the markets and investing. Likely candidates to buy could include Cetera and Lincoln Financial, observers say.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has snapped up two financial advisors from Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch who previously had $575 million in client assets under management.

Realizing that advisors needed help in the current low-yield environment, Schwab decided to offer an automatic bond ladder investment composed entirely of PIMCO municipal bonds.

Greg Francfort, who most recently served as director of Neuberger Berman’s global equity research team, will be joining the firm’s MLG Group, which manages approximately $7 billion in assets for individuals, institutions and mutual funds.

When Moody’s Investors Service put the short-term credit rating of Bank of America under review for a downgrade back in February, that stirred up the water for tax-exempt money market funds.

Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. has selected Indianapolis-based McCready and Keene, an actuarial and retirement benefits consulting firm, as the exclusive service provider for its 401(k) plan, which currently has 6,000 employees and more than $7.5 million in assets, which transferred on March 1.

Quantitative hedge fund manager Hagin Investment Management has launched an equities market-neutral product aimed for mutual fund investors.

Alternative investment manager Direxion has launched an exchange-traded fund that provides investors with equal weighted exposure to the constituents of the NASDAQ-100 index.

Paul Fenner, president and founder of DreamWorks Capital Management, LLC, has launched a new investment management firm to provide investment advisory services to individuals, institutions and small- and medium-sized businesses.