Investments

Touchstone Investments has hired BNY Mellon as its accounting and administration, transfer agency and blue sky service provider for four additional Touchstone funds.

Investors have stepped up their flight from mutual funds that invest in stocks.

PIMCO is currentlly crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s on its latest offering, the PIMCO Mortgage Opportunities Fund.

Three ING funds are bidding their subadvisor, Tradewinds Global Investors, adieu.

Investor confidence dropped slightly in the third quarter of 2012, according to the John Hancock Investor Sentiment Index, released Wednesday by John Hancock Financial Services.

Federated Investors is looking to take its fixed income prowess across the pond with the help of Bury Street Capital, a London-based investment marketing and distribution firm whose clients include leading global pension funds and wealth managers throughout Europe.

ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services company, introduced its annual database of fund managers who invest for maximum social, environmental and financial impact.

Based on conversations with more than 20,000 professionals, a new white paper proposes five natural starting places where planners can look for members of the 80 million-person-strong Generation Y, which will account for the next generation of financial planning clients.

Mutual fund executive John Mattera, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pleaded guilty this week to three criminal counts, including conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud, in connection to an $11 million scam involving the sale of non-existent private shares in companies such as Facebook (FB) and Groupon (GRPN).

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.