Investment products

The number and complexity of corporate events persist, even three years after the 2008 financial crisis. Here's a rundown, from Wolters Kluwers Financial Services.

Here's a an early preview of Financial Planning’s February cover story examining the savviest strategies that top planners and other financial professionals are using to put the fix back into their clients’ fixed income.

Invesco reports total net inflows of $6 billion in its latest quarter.

T. Rowe Price Group reported its fourth quarter 2011 results, including net revenues of $671.6 million, net income of $188.4 million, and diluted earnings per common share of $0.73.

Custom target-date funds are beginning to proliferate at the expense of their off-the-shelf counterparts. That’s due to plan sponsors wanting to have greater control over what’s in a fund and have access to a wider array of investments to put in them.

The former UBS trader accused of unauthorized deals that cost the Swiss bank $2.3 billion pleaded not guilty to four fraud and false accounting charges in a London court.

Fidelity Investments last week did something last week that a decade ago likely was not imaginable – or feasible. The company best known for popularizing the no-load mutual fund said that, for the first time, it would allow retail investors to trade directly in foreign markets – and in foreign currencies.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 74.17 points Friday to close at 12,660.46 while the Nasdaq managed to post a modest gain of 11.27 points to finish at 2,816.55.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 22.33 points to close at 12,734,63 Thursday following a pair of somewhat discouraging economic reports on jobs and new homes.

Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext, said at the Davos economic summit that he 'misjudged the process' that would be needed to get his company's merger with Deutsche Boerse approved.

Advisors don’t only have to bemoan the U.S. Postal Service’s decline — there are ways to profit from it. It’s worth at least considering an investment in ETFs that have exposure to companies like FedEx and UPS, according to an analysis by S&P Capital IQ.

The Global Investment Committee of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney said in its January 2012 market commentary that it expects not just Europe, but the United States, to slip into recession.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged up 83.10 points to 12,758.85 Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced it will not raise interest rates until at least late 2014 and added that it expects to maintain a “highly accommodative” stance to support the recovery.

Citi Fixed Income Indices and Research Affiliates have come together to develop a new series of investable bond indices based on the Research Affiliates Fundamental Index methodology.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 33.07 points to close at 12,675.75 Tuesday while the S&P 500 trimmed 1.37 points to finish at 1,314.63.

Payroll and benefits outsourcing provider Paychex has launched Paychex Advisor Select 401(k), an offering designed for fee-based financial advsors.

Electronic alpha capture is poised to become a major workflow tool for every portfolio manager and broker-dealer to help prioritize insights gleaned from incoming data and options, a new report from Tabb Group indicates.

Firsthand Technology Value Fund said that Facebook is now its largest holding, representing more than 5% of the fund’s net assets. Yelp, another social networking company, is also among the fund's top five holdings.

Savvis has added low-latency connections to an “open access’’ exchange for interest-rate swap futures.

Columbus, Ohio-based Beacon Hill Fund Services announced their first customer for its new Advisors Investment Trust product. The product enables multiple unaffiliated registered investment advisors to co-exist in the same registered investment company.