State Street has acquired Complementa Investment-Controlling AG, a Swiss supplier of investment performance measurement and analytics services.

Guggenheim Partners and Rydex/SGI announced Wednesday that Guggenheim will acquire Rydex in the first quarter of 2012 and combine its asset management capabilities under the name Guggenheim Investments. Once the deal is closed, Guggenheim Investments will have $119 billion of assets under management. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

SS&C Technologies Holdings has completed its acquisition of BDO Simpson Xavier Fund Administration Services Limited, in Dublin, Ireland.

Broadridge has acquired Paladyne Systems, a provider of front-, middle- and back-office trading platforms for multiple asset classes, for $76.5 million. Paladyne also provides portfolio management tools, pricing and valuation applications, data warehousing and data aggregation and reporting.

Allianz announced Tuesday it is rolling up its Allianz asset management division and PIMCO units into a new structure to be called Allianz Asset Management, effective Jan. 1.

Natixis Global Advisors has acquired a controlling interest in Darius Capital Partners, an investment advisor that offers a menu of third-party hedging strategies. These include Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities (UCITs), managed accounts, hedge funds, hedge fund replicators, funds-of-funds and alternative exchange-traded funds.

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Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services will acquire Securities America, the embattled, independent broker-dealer subsidiary of Ameriprise, for an initial payment of $150 million in cash, according to a company statement released Wednesday morning.

Envestnet’s platform services agreement with FundQuest 18 months ago has gone well, apparently.

DST Systems Reviews Strategic OptionsAugust 5, 2011Chris KentourisAfter insisting it wants to stay independent, DST Systems on Friday came close to confirming it was on the block.Like what you see? Click here to sign up for Securities Technology Monitor's weekly newsletter to get the latest news and analysis that matters to the effective operation of capital markets.Last month, DST said it was not entertaining discussions with any party regarding a sale of the company and didn’t think its stock price was representative of its long-term intrinsic value. Therefore, it couldn’t entertain a takeover.But on Friday, the Kansas City, Mo. based firm which provides recordkeeping and other services to mutual funds and broker-dealers, said that it hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch and law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP to advise its board. Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP is providing legal advice.“The board of directors of DST Systems, Inc continuing its long standing practice of engaging in an ongoing review of the Company’s business plan, assets and investment portfolio,” said DST in a statement on Friday.In that same statement, DST also confirmed that it rejected a bid from Russell Glass, the founder of RDG Capital LLC, that he and two other people be added to its board. Glass said in June he made a bid to buy DST.DST’s stock dropped $2.92 a share or six percent to $45.91a share on Thursday giving the firm a market value of $2.1 billion.DST’s news on Friday followed a dismal second quarter earnings report; second quarter earnings fell 41 percent to $55.2 million from the year earlier period due to a large payment the firm received when a customer dropped its contract last year.The 2010 figure included a $58 percent termination payment. Eliminating the payment from earnings, DST’s earnings declined 14 percent to $49.4 million from $57.6 million the year earlier in large part due to a decline in the number of registered accounts it handles. Revenues declined 9 percent in the 2011 second quarter to $424.1 million.After insisting it wants to stay independent, DST Systems on Friday came close to confirming it was on the block.

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has acquired a majority stake in The Mutual Fund Store as well as a minority stake in Summit Partners, which invested in The Mutual Fund Store in 2006.

DST Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALPS for $250 million in cash.

Federated Investors has completed its acquisition of $509 million in mutual fund assets covering equities, fixed income and money markets from EquiTrust Series Fund and EquiTrust Variable Insurance Series Fund.

Hutchens Investment Management has merged with New Leaf Asset Management, with New Leaf executives Fletcher Cole and Carrie Bossi joining the Hutchens team.

DST Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALPS for $250 million in cash. Once the deal closes, which is expected in the fourth quarter, ALPS will be marketed as “ALPS, a DST Company.”

CIBC is taking a 41% stake in American Century, paying $848 million in cash for the shares that JP Morgan currently holds. JP Morgan paid $900 million for a 45% stake in American Century in 1998 and pared back its holdings over the years.

A trickle of corporate cash is beginning to flow into acquisitions, business launches and other capital expenditures, according to the 2011 AFP Liquidity Survey by the Association for Financial Professionals.

Teucrium Trading, the issuer of six single-commodity exchange-traded products, has received an investment from private equity and venture capital firm Sun Mountain Capital.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. on Monday said it struck a deal to buy Royal Bank of Canada's U.S. retail banking operations for $3.45 billion.

AXA Private Equity has signed an agreement to purchase a $1.7 billion portfolio of limited partnership interests in private equity buyout funds and direct stakes in companies from Citigroup.