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The investment platform is aimed at investors with at least $200,000 in investable assets.

Only 62% of Americans have a basic financial literacy level.

MarketRiders has released a 2010 Portfolio Report Card showing that stock and bond market portfolios returned between 4 to 16 percent.

There are several reasons for the long-term performance success of Vanguard Group’s GNMA Fund Investor Shares, but one of the simplest is this: It doesn’t have high fees weighing down its returns.

In the last two weeks of December, investors placed $507 million into U.S. equity funds, the first positive inflows since just before the Flash Crash in early May.

The Raymond James executive wrote, “the current ‘buying stampede’ is now 90 sessions long, making it the longest one ever recorded in my notes of more than 40 years. Combine that with many other ‘finger to wallet’ indicators suggesting caution and I am currently just sitting.”

Morningstar reported that it has found that managers who invest in their own funds remain invested more than twice as long.

According to a survey, four in five corporations could drop money market funds from their portfolios if funds are required to shift to a floating net asset value reporting structure.

Investors kept pulling their cash from municipal bond mutual funds at a record pace last week as frightened money continued to flee the market.

Genworth discontinues retail and group variable annuities, while Western & Southern and Allianz put faith in new variable annuities.

These are the firm’s first funds to concentrate individually on these areas.

NYSE Euronext said average daily volume in dervivatives contracts were down 6.2% worldwide in December 2010, compared to the prior year.

A new survey concludes that nearly half of boomers have no financial plans in place in case they live longer than expected.

Don Schreiber Jr., the chief executive officer and founder of WBI, said the funds’ strategies previously were only available to high-net-worth investors through separately managed accounts.

Since August, the funding status for the typical U.S. corporate pension plan has posted a more than 13 percentage point improvement, marking the largest four-month positive swing for the BNY Mellon Pension Summary Report since it was created in 2006.

The markets in 42 of the 48 countries included in the index posted positive returns last year.

For more yield, consider actively managed funds with broad discretion and floating rate funds

The CM Commodity Index Fund takes on contango with staggered maturities.

Investors are now pulling money out of bond funds at fastest rate in two years, and U.S. stock funds see their first positive net weekly inflows since April.

Despite the government’s insider trading case against expert consultants and hedge funds, flows to hedge funds should be strong in 2011, predicts Agecroft Partners, basing its findings on interviews with 300 hedge funds and 1,500 institutional investors.