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Global X Funds has launched the Global X FTSE ASEAN 40 ETF, which targets the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, comprised of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. The fund tracks the FTSE/ASEAN 40 Index.

Fund managers are the most bullish they have been on global equities they have been in a decade, with 67% overweight the asset class, according to the February BoA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers, which surveyed 188 fund managers with total assets of $569 billion under management. This is up from 55% in January and 40% in December.

The platform, which offers products from Axa, Allianz, Lincoln Financial, Prudential and Sun Life, enables discretionary management of variable annuity assets.

Fidelity Investments reported Thursday that one-third of all of the Roth IRA conversions it handled for advisers and individual investors occurred in December.

The two marriage partners did not describe this as a ‘merger of equals.’ Deutche Borse shareholders, after all, will have 60% control. But NYSE Euronext chief executive Duncan Niederauer says it’s not a takeover. So what is it?

The savings are part of a $500 million initiative to rationalize trading operations which could mean that as many as 3,000 people associated with JPMorgan Chase trading would lose their jobs or be redeployed inside the company.

Senate Banking Committee Republicans worry Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Schapiro and other regulators are rushing to implement rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act without sufficient regard to cost-benefit analyses or public comments.

Executives at two bailed-out lenders could earn the kind of big paychecks that are normally a no-no for banks that still owe the federal government.

Pretirement described was supposed to be for those who were somewhere “between the rat race and the rocking chair," but over the last few years, the concept - if not the name itself - has begun to take hold among a much broader – and younger - group.

Annuities sold through banks hit a rough patch last year, but 2011 looks brighter as interest rates begin to rise and the Dow Jones Industrial Average continues to improve.

There's a post-retirement crisis coming. But research indicates that the very individuals that most need guaranteed income in their lives are most resistant, according to Shlomo Benartzi, an expert in how human behavior affects the financing of human lives.

"Social media" is not just some amorphous glob of communications outlets to be employed or avoided. Here's the quick setup to get going with a strategy to use social technologies effectively.

UMB Healthcare Services announced it has seen a significant increase in the number of health spending accounts and expects even more in 2011.

The CFP Board of Standards handed down disciplinary actions against 27 financial planners who use the CFP mark, the board announced.

The sudden departure this week of Deborah McWhinney raises concerning questions for brokers, advisors, customers and the firm's executive management team as it embarks on a search for her replacement and, more important, its strategy for the highly coveted mass-affluent market.

Joseph Price, FINRA senior vice president of corporate financing and advertising regulation, told Dow Jones a second Social Networking Task Force will meet in March and more guidance will be issued by the end of the year.

Through an internal memo issued Wednesday, Bank of America executives announced it hired Tom McAuliffe, the former director of consulting at Morgan Stanley's Graystone Consulting, to head institutional consulting at BofA Merrill Lynch.

The sweeping move affected financial planners in 14 states, and is the largest number of sanctions that the CFP Board has issued in three years, Dan Drummond, a CFP Board spokesman said in a telephone interview Wednesday morning.

Let's get straight to the point: If you think your 17-year-old daughter is taking plastic sandwich bags out of kitchen cabinet to hide a cocaine habit, you're wrong.

Mobile apps and smartphones are all the rage on Main Street, but only a small minority of investors and traders are using them for their portfolios.