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When it comes to hedge funds winning institutional business, the amount of resources dedicated to client service means everything and more, a study of mid-sized firms has concluded.

Goldman Sachs introduced an upgraded version of its execution management system, designed to help traders carry out 'relative value' strategies aimed at cancelling out effects of broad market moves.

Asset managers are in a race to develop products that provide guaranteed retirement income, effectively duplicating annuities.

Analysts say growth will stall or slow if upper income households see a tax increase.

In short, there has never been a more important time to proactively manage our businesses.

Franklin Templeton Investments announced Wednesday it has entered into a strategic relationship with Pelagos Capital Management, LLC, acquiring a 20% equity stake in the firm.

The ­Securities and Exchange Commission would violate the Tower Amendment and the principles of federalism if it applies its proposed rules on asset-backed securities to municipal bonds, 14 market groups warned this week.

The optimal combination of high corporate bond yields and budding investment returns for defined benefit plans was not evident in this year’s third quarter, as pensions’ worldwide saw an “offset of strong investment returns” due to the decline in yields, Towers Watson said.

Top executives want to reassure lawmakers that foreclosure alternatives are paramount.

Risks can be mitigated by utilizing stronger data security programs, Ernst & Young report says.

Bank of America Corp.'s chief executive acknowledged in perhaps the starkest terms yet that for the country's largest bank, innovation may now be less important than remediation.

Use of the advice service that Bank of America Merrill Lynch Retirement & Benefit Plan Services offers 401(k) plan sponsors for free increased 23% year-to-date since September 2009.

Modest growth is predicted for 2011 approaches, with equities showing promise and emerging markets looking particularly attractive for investors, according ING’s head of asset allocation.

Imagine this: An entire generation of investors has accumulated a significant amount of investable cash, but was too apprehensive of the stock market, of advisors, and of the potential costs, to know how to invest the money.

But IRS Commissioner says the investigation isn’t over and the closed cases so far have averaged more than $200,000 in tax collections per case.

ING’s asset allocation chief says inflation won’t be a factor in the near future.

Danbury location is the firm’s 12th nationally

Only one in five advisors are increasing the amount of time they spend talking to clients in the wake of the economic meltdown, said Gregory Salsbury, in the closing session at the Financial Behavior in Retirement Summit in Chicago on Monday. And that's a mistake.

Combined market volatility and low interest rates have created the ideal environment for indexed annuity sales as fixed products continue to suffer, LIMRA says.

Steve Luckenbach, a wholesaler for Jackson National Life with 24 years’ experience under his belt, says that over that time he’s seen some advisors excel and others fail, but not for reasons you’d think.