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Advisors are turning to annuities, using tactical asset allocation and continuing to move to fee-based business models, as they cope with the effects that the sluggish economic climate is having on their practices, according to findings from the latest Russell’s Financial Professional Outlook, released last week.

The SPDR S&P Global Natural Resources ETF began trading on the NYSE Arca on Tuesday.

The service leverages Citi’s existing services for traditional mutual funds and their investment advisors.

Morgan Stanley announced Monday it has named Paul Price head of the firm’s investment management international sales.

Broker dealer BTIG Ltd. has expanded its global fixed-income group to include a London-based team focused on emerging markets, it announced Monday.

The U.K. hedge-fund giant made four hires as it looks to ramp up its U.S. institutional and private client businesses.

New core processing systems are helping a growing number of banks achieve a longtime goal: a comprehensive view of their customers.

The White House is considering appointing Elizabeth Warren as interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, bypassing a likely Senate confirmation battle.

Morgan Stanley announced Monday it has named Paul Price head of the firm’s investment management international sales.

FINRA today announced it has censured and fined New York-based Trillium Brokerage Services LLC $1 million for using “an illicit high frequency trading strategy and related supervisory failures.”

After analyzing 13 planning tools, Boston-based Aite names the three best products.

Todd Locicero was named office manager of UBS Wealth Management Americas' Los Angeles Private Wealth Management office.

Citi’s Global Transaction Services unit has launched a suite of regulatory administration and compliance support services for hedge funds, private equity funds and their SEC-registered investment advisors. The service leverages Citi’s existing services for traditional mutual funds and their investment advisors.

Charlie Armstrong has joined Lincoln Financial Group as vice president, brand management, reporting directly to Chief Marketing Officer Heather Dzielak.

Retail investors ignored the pullback in the state and local government debt market last week, committing the third-heaviest slug of new money to municipal bond mutual funds this year.

FINRA has censured and fined the New York-based brokerage firm $1 million for using an illicit high frequency trading strategy and related supervisory failures.

Mutual fund managers - not their hedge fund counterparts - are the original alpha males (and females).

The Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to revise its approach to circuit breakers on the nation's equities exchanges, to include a "careful review" of price bands that limit how far up or down the price of a stock can move at any given time.

The class-action lawsuit initiated by Third Avenue Management against the Reserve Primary Fund is only just beginning and will undoubtedly make for salacious headlines in the months ahead.

Aviva Investors, Pat O'Brien