Investments

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.

Teton Advisors (TETAA) has renamed its group of funds that it has advised since it was spun off from GAMCO Investors—Mario Gabelli’s fund group—in March 2009.

"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments," Julius Sextus Frontinus, Roman engineer, 10 A.D.

UMB Fund Services has launched a transfer agency service dubbed Alternative Investment Communication Engine for it growing number of registered hedge fund clients and potential clients.

Vanguard's Gus Sauter is finishing up a quarter century with the giant investment company. In those years, he has been a big part of market structure changes. In the first part of a multiple part Q&A, Sauter explains how he views those changes.

Pyxis Capital has hired Keith Watts as Head of National Sales.

Hatteras Funds has launched the Hatteras Managed Futures Strategies Fund (HMFIX, HMFAX), which bets on an existing $56 million strategy of the Hatteras Alpha Hedged Strategies Fund (ALPHX, APHAX, APHCX, ALPIX), a multi-strategy, multi-manager alternative mutual fund.

The Vanguard Mega Cap 300 Index Fund is replacing its index and changing its name in the next few months, according to a filing.

A decade ago, the fund industry got mired in a market-timing scandal, involving the placement of orders after the market closed.

Financial advisors and investors should brace themselves for increased market volatility brewing for after the November election as the U.S. heads for tax increases and budget cuts at the end of the year, according to new research from Cetera Financial Group.

Vanguard Group Inc., the biggest U.S. mutual-fund firm, attracted more money from investors in the first nine months of 2012 than it has in any full calendar year in its 38-year history.

Citi Private Bank has hired foreign exchange trading expert Oscar G. Salem as director and foreign exchange investment specialist. In this newly created position, Salem will oversee the bank's currency business in the Southwest region.

Taylor Alternative Mutual Funds has launched the Taylor Xplor Managed Futures Strategy Fund (TMFIX), the first mutual fund of the Taylor ALTS family of funds.

The PIMCO Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund has cut its advisory fee by 10 basis points to 75 bps.

Denver-based GaveKal Capital renamed its fund company the GaveKal Knowledge Leaders Fund.

Vanguard Funds' Chief Investment Officer George "Gus" Sauter is finishing up a quarter century with the giant investment company.

CharlesSchwab is letting its pricing do the talking in selling exchange-traded funds.

David Rubenstein, co-founder of the buyout firm Carlyle Group LP, said ordinary savers may someday be able to invest with firms like his, a business that so far has been limited to wealthy individuals and institutions.

Two suspects, Jay Jeffrey Nieto and Wilmer Cadiz, were arrested after a tip led investigators to the $10 million booty stolen from the home of Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive officer of DoubleLine Capital, the Los Angeles Times reports.

After 28 years in the Social Security Administration, Jack Butler, an advisor with HTLF Investment Services, takes his knowledge to the bank channel to educate clients on what they can expect from the program.