Investment products

Investors gravitate to bonds, alternative investments and international equities.

The new program provides advisor coverage for B and C clients as well as recruitment gaps.

The Boston-based company launched the suite of services to help advisors meet regulatory requirements

Investment managers rely on an array of high-fangled electronic tools to execute the most complex program trading and algorithmic trading strategies. But such is not the case when it comes to managed accounts.

It is not often one hears someone nicknamed “Wild” Bill exhorting patience.

The Valley Forge, Pa., company's decision comes just a few months after a similar move by Charles Schwab.

Indexes will focus on required business performance standards required to support their current stock prices.

Industry net income noted as the single-largest factor in the 2009 improvement.

Two veterans of the hedge fund world are touting a product they say lets advisers focus less on investment decision-making and more on business development and client service.

Consider that 97% of the world’s water is the salty variety; another 2% is frozen in the ice caps; and of the remaining 1%, the vast majority, is currently underground. This means that there is a lot of potential investment opportunities in water.

Nearly half of alternative investors surveyed by Brighton House Associates said they were interested in hedge funds following global macro trends because of its broad economic approach and highly liquid structure.

Sen. Kohl applauds DOL, SEC providing more information to employers and investors alike.

French bank wants to become a tier-one prime broker

The Treasury Department released interim guidance yesterday instructing municipal issuers how to issue four tax-credit bonds as direct-subsidy bonds, as was authorized by a jobs law enacted in March.

A Thornburg portfolio manager says dividend-paying stocks may be income-seeking investors’ best option right now.

The Department of the Treasury is asking primary dealers what impact the SEC’s revisions to Rule 2a-7 will have.

Wherever the money’s going, it’s not going to municipal bond mutual funds.

With stock gains in the triple-digit, where can an investor turn for the next big thing?

JPMorgan, the nation’s third largest municipal underwriter, and Charles Schwab, one of the world’s largest financial services companies, have joined forces to meet what they see as increasing demand from retail investors in the fixed-income market.

The Denver-based investment management saw profits and assets under management increase as trading continued to recover from the depths of the recession a year earlier.