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The world’s largest asset manager will use software from Hewlett-Packard to speed development of applications for Aladdin, its investment management platform.

Individual investors like what they see in long-term muni bond mutual funds and so have been pouring more money into them in 2012 than they have in years.

Defined contribution plan sponsors need to do a better job communicating key information to participants, according to a survey of plan participants.

BMO Asset Management is changing the investment objectives of several ETFs. The biggest change involves switching two of the ETFs to more recognized indices.

Henry Blodget, former cheerleader for the dot-come bubble, names the big fund managers that got taken to the cleaners with the Facebook IPO.

At four years and counting, the low-yield environment for bond looks likely to continue well beyond 2012 and has caused many investors to sit on the sidelines and miss out on additional income.

For some clients, it might make a lot of sense for planners to hedge large corrections by treating market volatility as an asset class to protect them from excessive downside risk.

The stock fund exit stampede continued last week, but at a slower pace. Investors withdrew $3.56 billion the week ended Aug. 8, down significantly from $5.65 billion the previous week.

Individual investors like what they see in long-term muni bond mutual funds and so have been pouring more money into them in 2012 than they have in years.

FINRA says the brokerage didn't have enough controls in place to detect that Jared Weinryt had breached his $116 million trading limit as he made overnight bets on so-called futures.

Midsized RIA firms are the new sweet spot for managers of mutual funds and ETFs, according to a new report from Cerulli Associates.

The tech-laden Nasdaq added 13.95 points Wednesday to finish at 3030.93 but the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 lost 7.36 points and 1.60 points, respectively.

BlackRock remains the behemoth in ETF/ETP assets under management, with a global market share of over 38% and a U.S. market share of more than 40%.

Investors poured $7.2 billion into bond funds last week, while pulling $3.6 billion from funds that invest in U.S. stocks.

Victory Capital Management has selected Citi Transaction Services for a range of middle office outsourced services.

Newfleet Asset Management has named Frank Ossino a senior portfolio manager of the Virtus Senior Floating Rate Fund.

U.S. bond fund investors have been more reliant on government bonds and corporates than their European counterparts but that will change if rates stay low.

JonesTrading Institutional JonesTrading to Acquire Conifer SecuritiesServices said it signed a letter of intent to acquire Conifer Securities from the Conifer Group.

Equity fund investors appear to be exiting from mutual funds and investing in ETFs instead. The ICI reported net redemptions of $64.673 billion for U.S. equity funds and $42.887 billion for all equity funds for the year to date.

Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States government a year ago has had a wide but shallow impact on municipal bonds.