Investment strategies

F-Squared Investments this week announced that its assets under management topped $10 billion as of January 4, up from approximately $5.6 billion in the previous year.

Who better to help kickoff an educational alternatives summit series than Jeffrey Gundlach?

Where would a successful trader invest a hypothetical $100,000 windfall? In energy, information technology and utilities, according to Fidelity Investments’ inaugural survey of its top online traders. The survey polled customers who made at least 36 trades over the past 12 months and whose total portfolio performance during this time was at least 20%. …

Cerulli's latest Retirement Edition is out, this time with insight into the development of institutional investment vehicles, particularly collective trust funds (CTFs).

With an increasingly globalized community of investors, the United Nations Federal Credit Union is living up to its mandate of doing good in significant ways.

Luz Padilla, the senior portfolio manager at DoubleLine Funds discusses emerging markets and opportunities for global investing.

Longer-term fundamental reform will redress underlying differences within Europe.

The head of Global and International Equities at Schroders discusses the global economy and why China's new leadership could be great for investors, and which nations could be troublesome.

New U.K. regulations will force advisors there to make big changes. You should consider following their lead.

BMO Harris Private Banking is sticking to its cautiously optimistic 12-month outlook despite economic turmoil in Europe and anxiety over the much-discussed fiscal cliff.

There are a host of reasons why emerging market debt has been looking sweeter to investors.

PIMCO is looking to launch the an emerging markets bond fund sometime in the first quarter of 2013.

Credit conditions in China warrant special attention in light of the country's considerable size and systemic importance to the global economy.

A diversified portfolio may need foreign stocks, but are non-U.S. bonds worth the trouble?

The membership of the fund services industry association Thursday morning named five new directors to its board and Fred Naddaff of Sungard as the board's chairman.

Morgan Stanley reported on Thursday that its global wealth management business saw it pre-tax income fall to $239 million, down from $356 million one year ago, and net revenue of $3.34 billion, up from $3.23 billion in the third quarter of 2011, as the firm closed its acquisition of the next stake in the Smith Barney joint venture.

Global wealth management firms engaged in 65 M&A deals from the beginning of 2011 to the end of the third quarter of 2012. During that time, $635 billion in assets under management changed hands.

Increasing stability and high levels of per-capita growth in far-flung global economies have created investment opportunities for intrepid investors.

Hindsight isn't really 20/20 because there's a good chance one could misinterpret what happened. And if we connect the dots incorrectly and claim a pattern that isn't there, then we've gone through the pain without learning anything. And we're bound to repeat the same mistakes someday.

The search for global investments has become at once more far-reaching and fundamental. Expanding the search geographically can glean opportunities in essentials like food, water and energy. Population growth and higher labor costs also play a part in global investing. But be warned: Your clients will need nerves of steel.