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Curian Capital has launched the Curian Research Select Portfolios. The managed account offerings include two distinct sets of portfolios, one focused on asset accumulation, the other on income distribution.

Even three years can increase income by 38%

As the general public becomes increasingly familiar with hedge funds, a new investment approach is unfolding: the mutual fund that employs hedge fund strategies.

Fulltime students at four year schools received about $16,000 in aid this year.

What is your unique value proposition? What is the strategic direction of your practice? What can you do that will really drive referrals? The best answers may come from consultants often underutilized by financial advisors – your clients.

Franklin Templeton Investments is staffing up as it expands services for RIAs.

Franklin Templeton Investments is staffing up as it expands services for RIAs.

The U.S. and Singapore were co-valedictorians in a new Morningstar report released on Friday as both countries earned "A" grades on a report card that measured the overall experience of mutual fund investors based on a variety of factors including taxation, transparency and investor protection.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined Dallas-based financial services company Southwest Securities Inc. $500,000 for soliciting violations related to its municipal securities business.

Nothing that Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or President Barack Obama can do at this point is going to prevent this country from going into another Great Depression.

River Road Asset Management has expanded its business development team with the hiring of Katrina Howard O'Leary as vice president of client services. In this role, she will work with institutional investment consultants and plan sponsors.

Although they have little trust in financial advisers, young American investors feel they are well-educated about handling their own budgets and are optimistic about the future.

Fidelity Investments’ operating profit rose 17% in 2010 to nearly $3 billion, up from $2.51 billion in 2009, driven by strong mutual fund sales and brokerage business. The company released the information in its annual report to private shareholders.

The Fidelity Millionaire Outlook, a survey of 1,000 millionaires, found that while their current outlook on the economy is weak, many expect marked improvement in the fourth quarter.

More adept now at tapping capital, a small but significant number of community banks in the hardest-hit states like California, Georgia and Illinois are escaping from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

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Due diligence reports from the securitization boom could worsen the financial industry's litigation headaches — and conceivably expose some firms and individuals to criminal charges.

A 1.7% drop in the Nikkei is not devastation. Many advisors are already suggesting that by Monday morning, the financial markets will have priced it in as a minor bump in a global bull market.

The U.S. and Singapore were co-valedictorians in a new Morningstar report released Friday as both countries earned "A" grades on a report card that measured the overall experience of mutual fund investors based on a variety of factors including taxation, transparency and investor protection.