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BlackRock Friday threw a new type of product into the mix in the rapidly growing and evolving municipal bond exchange-traded fund industry.

The 51-year-old man who shot and killed three people, injured another five and then committed suicide in St. Louis last Thursday at an ABB Power manufacturing plant where he had worked was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against ABB and Fidelity over 401(k) fees.

Janus Selects Weil as CEO

BRIC Funds Top Performers of 2009

Despite an overwhelming consensus among the scientific community that human activity is causing climate change, most of the world's largest investment managers do not factor climate-related trends into their short- and long-term investment decision making, a new study finds.

Vanguard was able to stand out in 2009 despite -- or perhaps because of -- a difficult market environment.

NEW YORK -- U.S. and international regulators are widely credited with having saved the global economy from plummeting into a second Great Depression, and the fragile, recovering economy can expect to see continued support for much of 2010, experts say.

It gives junior advisors funding to buy out practices from senior advisors.

linkedFA's launch comes amid a debate over how advisors can use social networking to expand their businesses, while still following compliance rules under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934.

Mixed emotions as earnings season begins, from Lord Abbett, Turner Investments, and more, including the week in reports.

After Janus appealed to the Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit against it for mutual fund market timing, the high court turned to the Obama administration for its input on the case, Janus Capital Group v. First Derivative Traders.

The focus will be on improving the parts of the business that interact directly with customers.

Contributions in the form of appreciated securities represented 43% of the fund’s total contributions last year.

The Managed Funds Association is planning to create the largest database on hedge funds and use the information to lobby Washington. The database will amass each hedge fund’s assets, number of investors, location and various strategies—but encrypt the information so each fund’s information is anonymous.

As a further sign that the mutual fund industry and broader asset management business and economy are gaining strength, the financial industry netted 4,000 new jobs in December. This was the first time since July 2007 that there has been job creation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Axa Equitable’s new product comes at a time when variable annuity providers are doing lots of tinkering with their offerings.

Eighty percent of fund managers expect the stock market to continue to rise in 2010, fueled by real corporate earnings growth, rather than aggressive cost-cutting, Russell Investments found.

WisdomTree Investments has introduced the WisdomTree International Hedge Equity Fund, an exchange-traded fund-of-fund.

Pennsylvania Wednesday will take bids for $900 million of ­general obligation debt — ­including the largest competitive Build America Bond transaction thus far.

On the heels of the IRS’s plan to begin regulating tax preparers, the Justice Department announced that it has filed six lawsuits this week to stop preparers charged with generating fraudulent income tax returns.