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La Jolla, Calif.-based Altegris is looking to beef up its managed futures mutual fund, dubbed the Altegris Managed Futures Strategy Fund, a fund of funds, by adding two more managers to its stable.

Qualified accounts, such as 401(k)s and IRAs, retained 42.5% of the $37.6 billion that flowed into the accounts for a net asset inflow of $22.4 billion.

Investment manager Eaton Vance has named Laurie Hylton as chief financial officer and Daniel Cataldo as treasurer. They both replace Robert Whelan, who has left the company.

Nearly 54% of mutual funds taking part in a Bonaire Software Solutions study on distributor rebate payments said that tracking and reconciliation is their biggest challenge.

Financial Planning Senior Editor Donna Mitchell says there are a litany of business models and management options available outside the structured walls of wirehouse firms.

The actively managed fund will hold commodity, natural resources and REIT securities. It will diversify those with about a 10% allocation to gold, and a fixed-income piece.

Great Bend, K.S.-based CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, a third-party admnistrator for retirement plans, has named 25-year veteran Jon Prescott as its president.

Americans feel optimistic about their immediate financial future and accept responsibility for their own financial security, according to a new CFP Board survey.

Data can be volatile on a month-to-month basis, but the signs are still pointing toward growth.

CME Group said it will start offering “one-pot” margining of positions in interest-rate swaps and futures, beginning May 7.

Investment education company FiPath has hired Michael Turgeon as managing director of Advisor Services. His primary responsibility will be launching enterprise sales and marketing initiatives for the company’s marketing tool for financial advisors, FiPath for Advisors.

Kip Meadows, founder and acting chairman of Nottingham Investment Administration which services more than $25 billion in assets for mutual funds and asset managers, shares his thoughts on the shrinking fund administration field and hedge funds' gravitation towards the mutual fund business.

San Francisco, Calif-based Forward Management, LLC today unveiled its latest offering, the Forward Managed Futures Strategy Fund, a systematic, trend-following vehicle that will bet long and short exposure on liquid futures contracts in commodities, equities, bonds and currencies.

Clients of RidgeWorth Investments will now be able to access a variety of functions and data from their investment accounts thanks to a new application available for the iPad.

So you want to tap into the global markets and find new opportunities for growth? But before you do that, you need to get re-acquainted with the new IRS requirements for reporting the basis of the cost you ascribe to a security or fund you purchase.

Unable to shed a downward trend that first began early last year, ownership of municipal bonds by households fell to the lowest level in two years as it continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to quarterly data recently released by the Federal Reserve Board.

Nearly one out of four pension plan participants invest solely in target-date funds, according to new research released from The Vanguard Group—a six-fold increase over the past five years. Further, adoption of these funds among new plan participants is even higher, with 64% of employees entering plan for the first time with a single target-date fund.

Goldman Sachs has reshuffled a number of senior positions in its equities division in response to recent executive departures.

So you want to tap into the global markets and find new opportunities for growth?

Securities regulators charged two Ameriprise Financial advisors and three others with insider-trading, saying they made $1.8 million in illicit profits based on confidential merger information one of the advisors learned through an Alcoholics Anonymous relationship.