Investments

Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched Broadridge Fluent, a new service that aims to significantly improve communications between financial services firms and their customers via marketing, transactional and regulatory communications.

Even as a new video has brought negative attention to Mitt Romney's campaign, a new poll finds financial advisors still think he's the best pick to lead the country.

In 2013, asset managers will face the challenges of volatile markets, ramped up regulations, increased need for capital preservation, and a general tendency towards risk aversion. Yet even in a globally compressed economy, there are pockets of underlying opportunities and under-served investors. From our friends at Ceruilli, here are trends for advisors (and their clients) to watch in 2013.

Abigail Johnson, the newly minted president of Fidelity Financial Services, the parent company of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, was notched at #27 in the recently published Forbes 400 List of the Richest People in America, leading all other members of the mutual fund world, including a member of her own family.

AllianceBernstein has hired two new executives for its alternative business, which the firm has targeted for expansion.

Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $6.12 billion for the week ended Wednesday, September 12, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

For the week ended Sept. 12, investors pulled an estimated $2.75 billion from funds that invest long-term in U.S. stocks, marking the eighth consecutive week of outflows.

Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $6.12 billion for the week ended Wednesday, September 12, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Emerging market shop Mirae Asset Global Investments is shelving two funds from its Mirae Asset Discovery Funds trust, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Emily Colella has joined Palmer Square Capital Management as a managing director, business development, Money Management Executive has learned.

Hatteras Funds has added Yuri Khalif as Executive Director for the Northeastern region.

Franklin Resources, the parent of Franklin Templeton Investments, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in K2 Advisors Holdings, a fund of hedge funds manager, from private equity shop TA Associates.

Fidelity Investments seems to be not-so-secretly building its long-awaited foray into the exchange-traded fund market out West, after hiring an executive and creating a new division in Denver.

Nationwide Funds has launched a new inflation-protected mutual fund, the Nationwide Inflation-Protected Securities Fund (NIFAX/NIFIX), which will primarily bets on U.S. Treasury-issued Inflation Protected Securities.

A greater number of Americans believe that their personal finances and the economy are in better shape than they were a year ago, according to a new survey from a unit of JPMorgan Chase.

Palmer Square Capital Management this week added a merger arbitrage manager to its growing stable of alternative funds.

The Alternative Strategies Mutual Fund, a series of Northern Lights Fund Trust II, has bid farewell to a quartet of subadvisors, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

What are mainstream media publications writing about the wealth management industry: A look at tax hikes (and tax cuts); college savings; the Fed's attempt to boost the economy; what should entrepreneurs know about estate planning; and how good are your planner's credentials?

Emerald Asset Advisors has tapped Trademark Capital Management to manage the EAS Global Cycle Fund (EGCAX, EGCEX, EGCSX), now renamed the EAS Trademark Capital Global Fund.

Orinda Asset Management, an independent, privately-held asset management firm, has launched the Orinda SkyView Macro Opportunities Fund (OMOIX and OMOAX), a multi-manager hedge fund offering.