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Baltimore asset management titan T. Rowe Price reported its executives took compensation cuts in 2009, led by CEO James Kennedy, who had his compensation package slashed by 17%.

Investors showed uncanny calm, inertia or perhaps even malaise during the recession, with a scant 1% selling out of equity funds at the height of the market volatility in October 2008, Vanguard found.

Electronic trading in the equity markets has grown dramatically in recent years and is expected to continue growing, according to a new survey of institutional equity traders and technologists. RBC Capital Markets, Bradley Katsuyama, proprietary trading, electronic trading

It’s impossible to completely protect against inflation but some old asset classes, and one new product, can help.

Merrill Lynch’s high account minimums could banish many BofA clients to a call center, taking their advisors’ main source of production with them.

But, even a few bankruptcies can set a bad precedent.

An event Wednesday asked how we can move from turbulence to transformation economically and in terms of gender equity. And the answer seems to be clear: by including women.

Sales declined 11% from the previous quarter and 40% from a year earlier.

529 college savings plans have attracted $100 billion in 11 million accounts, roughly a quarter of the money parents in the U.S. have set aside for their child’s education. But that’s far short of the hundreds of billions of dollars asset management firms expected them to attract.

Over the past decade, the firm's mission has remained the same: to help women build confidence and an open dialogue around financial responsibility and knowledge.

Investors recover their appetites on a steady diet of bonds and fixed income, but can you have too much of a good thing?

More than one in four, 28%, of wealthy Americans with at least $500,000 in investable assets and annual incomes of $150,000 or more have or plan to cut back on charitable giving due to the economic climate.

Citigroup has hired Sanjiv Sawhney as global head of fund services, a new position. He was previously head of fund services operations at JP Morgan and is returning to Citi, where he began his career and served for 15 years.

Financial advisors are looking forward to 2010. In fact, 68% of advisers recently surveyed define their 2010 business mindset as one of acceleration and growth.

Inflows and performance take funds to pre-crisis levels.

The New York company announced Monday that it has hired a former T. Rowe Price executive to lead its charge in the bank channel.

Fidelity International has fired two Hong Kong-based fund managers for what it said were breaches of its ethics policy.

Combined assets in the nation's mutual funds decreased by $234.5 billion, or 2.1% to $10.886 trillion in January, according to a survey by the Investment Company Institute.

Traditional value has its fans Benjamin Graham for one but Evermore’s David Marcus says that approach can lead to a “value trap.”

Although women are just as optimistic as men about the stock market, women are much less confident about their investment decisions, according to a survey by MassMutual.