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Whether or not you work for a best practice firm, it pays to manage your book to maximize its value.

Los Angeles, Calif.-based First Pacific Advisors is inviting its investors to spend a day at the beach with the firm. Specifically, the firm is holding its first Investor Day on Monday, May 21, at the Hotel Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica, Calif.

RBC Wealth Management continues to bulk up its Paramus, N.J., force with the hiring of financial advisor John Ebanietti from Oppenheimer & Co.

The Highland Credit Strategies Fund has changed its name to Pyxis Credit Strategies Fund.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $6.22 billion to $2.665 trillion in the week ended Feb. 22, the Investment Company Institute reported.

BATS Global Markets said the SEC's Division of Enforcement is looking at its methods for developing new order types as well as how it develops its information technology systems.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted to approve new rules governing, among other things, when swaps dealers can delay reporting on the size and price of their block trades.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has released a long-range plan to improve transparency in the muni market by collecting a wide range of new information from a variety of sources, integrating that data on the Electronic Municipal Market Access system, and making it available to investors and other market participants in a more user-friendly and searchable format.

Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $6.22 billion to $2.665 trillion in the week ended Wednesday, Feb. 22, the Investment Company Institute reported.

Deborah Fuhr is launching her own firm devoted to research and consulting in the exchange trade market, called ETF Global Insight.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied up 46 points to close at 12.984.69 Thursday as investors took a shine to stocks in virtually all the major industries following a one-day sell-off.

Fidelity Investments reported that its sales of defined contribution plans to small- to medium-sized firmst grew 40% in 2011, reaching commitments of $6.6 billion in assets by year’s end.

Here’s an interactive slide show detailing five advisors who have already found themselves in the SEC’s crosshairs this year.

Yorkville Capital Management said it created 11 sector indices and 4 composite indices that will track the performance of investment partnerships that get traded on public exchanges.

BlackRock’s former global head of exchange traded fund research, Deborah Fuhr, is back.

New information FINRA is exploring adding to the BrokerCheck system could include the reason for and comments related to a broker’s termination as well as scores on industry qualification exams.

Affluent retail investors are pulling assets away from traditional mutual funds in favor of exchange-traded funds and other alternatives, resulting in significant market consolidation, according to new findings by Cogent Research.

Cove Street Capital is sponsoring its first mutual fund, the CSC Small Cap Value Fund, which it begin managing on Jan. 27. The fund’s former investment manager was City National Asset Management, Inc.

Affluent retail investors are pulling assets away from traditional mutual funds in favor of exchange-traded funds and other alternatives, resulting in significant market consolidation, according to new findings by Cogent Research.

Fidelity Investments reported strong sales growth last year of defined contribution plans to small and midsized employers in 2011.