International funds

Collaboration between the Division of Enforcement and the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations at the Securities and Exchange Commission "really is very seamless," according to OCIE director Carlo V. di Florio.

Market Vectors ETF Trust has launched the Market Vectors Treasury-Hedged High Yield Bond ETF (THHY) to bet long on high-yield corporate bonds and shorting Treasury notes.

WisdomTree Asset Management is prepping the WisdomTree Brazil Bond Fund (BBF) to launch within the next few months.

Los Angeles-based Aspiriant is launching a new equity fund dubbed the Aspiriant Risk Managed Global Equity Fund, which will bet on a diverse group of common stocks of companies in developed and emerging markets with an emphasis on small capitalization and value companies.

Nuveen Investments has launched two new dividend-focused funds.

Houston-based Salient Partners, a $17.4 billion asset management firm, has officially lifted the veil on its Salient Pure Trend Fund (SPTAX, SPTCX, SPTIX). Money Management Executive previously reported on the fund’s launch.

Forbes has compiled its list of the world's billionaires and a few mutual fund executives have made the cut.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched the Goldman Sachs World Bond Fund (GWRAX)—a core bond strategy that bets on fixed income securities and currencies across the developed and emerging markets.

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Last month, exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products globally had net inflows of $11.4 billion, according to ETFGI.

Chicago-based Driehaus Capital Management is liquidating its Driehaus International Credit Opportunities Fund (DRCIX) after a year of less-than-stellar performance.

Russell Investments, which advises funds with $2.4 trillion in assets, will reclassify Greece to an emerging from a developed market, an unprecedented step taken after a recession reduced the nation’s economy by 20%.

Continued demand for equity exchange-traded products booted ETP flows $47.1 billion, the strongest two-month total on record, according to BlackRock’s latest ETP Landscape Snapshot.

William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, last week called out Charles Schwab & Co. for recently changing up its customer arbitration agreements by striking its investors' ability to join class action lawsuits.

Managed futures mutual funds? They are so 2012.

PIMCO has launched the PIMCO Emerging Markets Full Spectrum Bond Fund (PFSIX), which it touts as a "one stop" fixed income strategy to bet on investment opportunities in the developing world.

Franklin Templeton plans to open three new offices in Italy.

Pacific Investment Management Co., the world’s largest active bond manager, plans to open a fixed- income fund today that will allocate money across a range of emerging-market debt, according to a person briefed on the plan.

Guggenheim Investments is liquidating nine exchange-traded funds to make room for other "products that have demonstrated the most marketplace demand."

"Guarded optimism" is how a new survey from Towers Watson characterizes fund managers' views on investing in 2013.