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At Oppenheimer Funds, even customer service representatives become stewards of the quality of data. Who should own your data?

'I truly believe that we've entered the greatest bull market in the history of advice and it will continue for decades to come,'' the president of national sales and marketing for LPL Financial said Tuesday.

A year ago, marketing of a digital mailbox service for delivery of bills, fund documents and everything under the sun was supposed to start by mid-year. It’s going to happen this year, a vice president for digital strategy at Broadridge Financial Solutions says. Really.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average spent most of the day in the red Tuesday before fighting back for a 4.24-point gain, closing at 12,878.28.

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has developed a new platform, OmniAccess, that will make it easier for asset managers and broker-dealers to post, process and view data related to their omnibus, or combined futures, accounts.

The U.S. equities market has been losing the order flow battle for three straight years and will continue to fall until 4th quarter 2012, a Tabb Group Research Report says.

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext, has launched a post-trade monitoring tool for compliance officers.

In 2010, The Dreyfus Corporation gave iPads to every one of its 70 salespeople, to save on Federal Express billings in shipping them marketing materials. Now the manager of roughly $300 billion in mutual fund assets has decided that it should not be presenting its nine boards of directors with bulky binders any more, either.

The mutual fund manager last week supplied directors of one of its fund groups with all board materials on iPads, instead of on paper. Its other eight boards also will be getting on board with materials stored on the tablet devices.

Viteos, known predominantly as a fund administrator and operations support provider for hedge funds, has expanded its operations, accounting and reporting services to family office RIA firms.

Bennett Gross was previously director of wealth management for Pacific Wealth Advisors.

Alternative investment manager Direxion has launched a “buy and hold” fund designed to replicate the Auspice Managed Futures ER Index.

For bank reps looking to advance their careers, there’s no better news than a promotion or a job offer that’s too good to refuse. Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were either promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility from January 25 to February 9 of this year.

The sovereign debt and banking crises are not over. But the stiffest headwind facing Western economies? Trade deficits, says a Citigroup investment research director.

SunGard is expanding the execution services of its newly-consolidated broker-dealer, SunGard Brokerage & Securities Services, with trading technology from Fox River.

The sovereign debt and banking crises are not over. But the stiffest headwind facing Western economies? Trade deficits, says a Citigroup investment research director.

If you think social media is all about you (i.e., the points your company wants to get across), think again.

The SEC is about to announce reform of money market funds that is likely to include letting the net asset value float, long anathema to the industry. James P. Palermo, Vice Chairman of BNY Mellon though wants to know: What happens if that part of the mutual fund industry just goes away?

The next black swan in the financial industry is likely to be rising interest rates. And there could be a “good” black swan event: a rally over the next 10 years in stocks, said speakers at NICSA’s 30th Annual Conference and Expo.

If you think social media is all about you (i.e., the points your company wants to get across), think again.