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Dreyfus has launched the Dreyfus Dynamic Alternatives Fund, a mutual fund designed to provide exposure to a range of hedge fund returns.

Eaton Vance Management has launched the Eaton Vance Commodity Strategy Fund, which will take long and short positions in fixed income instruments, including derivatives, with the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Total Return Index as its benchmark.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced the year's 42nd failure late Friday.

Though touted as a way to avert the next financial crisis, the massive regulatory reform bill awaiting a Senate vote ignores key contributing factors, including an inefficient and outdated regulatory structure, a broken housing finance market and weak underwriting standards that spurred a wave of unaffordable mortgages.

Eaton Vance Management has launched the Eaton Vance Commodity Strategy Fund, which will take long and short positions in fixed income instruments, including derivatives, with the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Total Return Index as its benchmark.

With the tax deadline approaching, investors are deciding whether to convert from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.

Charles Schwab is encouraging people receiving tax refunds to resist the temptation to use the money for impulse purchases, but, rather, to use the money for long-term financial goals, especially retirement, and paying down high-interest debt.

Citigroup's mutual fund transfer agent services have again been honored with a 5-star performance rating by National Quality Review for the year ending December 2009.

Dreyfus has launched the Dreyfus Dynamic Alternatives Fund, a mutual fund designed to provide exposure to a range of hedge fund returns.

ProShares has launched the first exchange-traded funds that offer leveraged and inverse exposure to the biotechnology sector.

This isn’t the fee you charge clients. The current fee issue that made its way to the Supreme Court this week deals with the expenses charged by mutual funds.

Once you’ve decided to serve a niche, how to present yourself as an expert in their field—and mean it!

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. hopes that by maintaining its localized approach to wealth management it can continue to organically grow its trust business by cross-selling services to its roster of wealthy clients.

Although the idea of restricting grantor retained annuity trusts, or GRATs, had been tossed around previously, estate planners didn’t think it would become a reality.

Municipal closed-end funds continue to surge to new peaks despite the specter of higher interest rates threatening to throw a wet blanket on all the fun.

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Daniel Tarullo reiterated Thursday that the Fed needs to move carefully as it unwinds its liquidity facilities to ensure it does not disrupt still-fragile markets.

Or so it would seem as execs, regulators refuse to take blame

Investment management firms, custodians and broker/dealers all say that financial planners are embracing Web-based workstations that work on smart phones, but they don’t agree on how fast advisers are going down that path.

Ever since the recession began, everyone from media outlets to industry gurus have deemed 401(k)s a failure.

New leadership at Capco, changes at the CFP board of standards, and more executive moves.