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Commodity and currency-based ETFs are gaining popularity as investors disappointed with poor returns on traditional investments like stocks and bonds look to diversify their holdings.

The SEC's market structure crimes unit is hiring a group of non-lawyer trading specialists to aid in its investigations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's market structure crimes unit is hiring a group of non-lawyer trading specialists to aid in its investigations.

UBS zeroes in on five events that will happen in the upcoming year, five that may and five that won’t.

Investors went on a bit of a buying spree Friday after digesting the latest plan by euro zone leaders to shore up their debt issues and a somewhat encouraging consumer sentiment report.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has cut its total number of regions from 19 to 16 in its latest streamlining move.

Economic and sovereign risks are likely to dissipate in 2012, according to Barclays Capital’s quarterly research publication, the latest titled, “Global Outlook: A Cautious Step Forward.” As a result, an economic rebound could come as early as the spring.

Lobbying over the contentious issue of regulatory oversight of investment advisors will likely continue deep into the next session of Congress, with some advocacy groups working to scuttle the measure altogether in an election-shortened legislative calendar.

An estimated $9.2 billion flowed out of long-term mutual funds for the week ending Wednesday, Nov. 30, according to the latest statistics by the Investment Company Institute, a trade association for U.S. investment companies.

New cost basis reporting rules are particularly challenging. Here's how to turn them into an opportunity for your practice.

Financial data, analytics and disclosure management services provider Edgar Online has launched I-Metrix Enterprise, the latest version of its I-Metrix professional risk analysis technology.

The Hartford will hire up to 50 in its mutual fund sales distribution unit, in a push to beef up this division.

U.S. Bancorp has launched a new exchange-traded funds service, ETF-Fusion, which helps existing or start-up ETFs with product development, administration and trade support, proprietary technology and regulation and compliance.

Investors dumped shares in late trading Thursday on reports that German officials rejected some of the EU summit draft measures intended to help extricate some Eurozone nations from their daunting sovereign debt issues.

Markit, a specialist in valuations and post-trade processing for swaps and other non-exchange traded products, has launched a service to help US mutual funds and other institutional investors find a fair value for their bonds.

This week, IRA expert Ed Slott returns to answer questions from investors on topics ranging from Medicare premiums and replacing IRA withdrawals to required minimum distributions.

LPL Financial said it has added more than 500 net new advisors this year, bringing it close to 13,000. The additions came as the company prepared hikes in the fees it charges them.

As equity funds across different regions, capitalizations and investment styles plummeted between -15% and -26% in the third quarter, publicly traded asset managers were hit with an average 8.9% decline in fee-earning assets under management, Moody’s said Thursday. U.S. small-cap stock and emerging markets indices suffered the sharpest losses.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that it is accepting registrations for its next national seminar for chief compliance officers and other senior investment management executives.

Financial advisors looking to save costs, improve productivity and meet compliance standards recognize the importance of an effective document management application that goes above beyond Adobe Acrobat – but thus far the options remain fairly limited.