Investments

If municipal bond market observers feel there are other time bombs out there waiting to detonate that resemble the accusations surrounding the manipulation of Libor, they won't be found in variable-rate debt tied to the SIFMA municipal swap index.

On July 24, 2012, Newly formed alternative asset management shop Madison Park Capital Partners, LLC has hired Erik Ogard, former Ddrector of Multi Strategy Solutions for Russell Investments, as a managing principal.

BNP Paribas Securities Services is not well known for handling custody of fund assets in either Mongolia or the United States.

Here's what advisors need to know to help their clients build affordable and well-diversified portfolios using unit investment trusts.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed another 101.11 points Monday to close at 12,721.46 while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 lost 35.15 points and 12.14 points, respectively.

Artnet Analytics launches online indices by individual artist and category to educate advisors with clients who are collectors

On July 23, 2012, Exchange-traded funds have experienced tremendous growth over the past decade but not all of that growth is positive, according to new research from Vanguard.

On July 23, 2012, Huntington Asset Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, has extended its relationship with the Midas Family of Funds through March 2015.

On July 23, 2012, John Hancock Funds today unveiled a new program and a survey to help retirement plan advisers demonstrate their value and build stronger relationships with their plan sponsor clients.

On July 23, 2012, Raleigh, N.C. – based Hatteras Funds today revealed that it is hosting its own alternative road show, constructed as a series of forums across the U.S. for advisors, home office research teams and consultants to meet the underlying hedge fund managers of the Hatteras alternative mutual funds (Alpha Hedged Strategies Fund, Long/Short Equity Fund, and Long/Short Debt Fund).

KKR & Co. LP, the private-equity firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, plans to open two debt funds for individual investors, according to government filings.

Target-date fund providers are taking two steps forward and three steps back, according to a new report by BrightScope, dubbed Popping The Hood V, 2012.

Paul Schott Stevens has spet the past two years championing an industry-wide call for the SEC to not fix what isn't broken in a key segment of the industry: the $2.6 trillion money market mutual fund business.

Phillip D. Murphy, a former manager of municipal derivatives products at Banc of America Securities LLC, now Bank of America Merrill Lynch, was indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts of conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a fraudulent scheme to rig bids for municipal-bond related investment agreements.

On July 23, 2012, Paul Schott Stevens has been president and chief executive of the Investment Company Institute since 2004.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 120.79 points Friday to close at 12,822.57 while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 lost 40.60 points and 13.85 points, respectively.

EMPIRE FIDELITY INVESTMENTS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is closing the the PIMCO Commodity Real Return Strategy to new investors, effective today, according to a Securities and Exchange filing.

United Technologies Company last month took the plunge into providing its employees a steady stream of retirement income.

TCW Funds, Inc. is liquidating the TCW Emerging Markets Equities Fund on August 31, according to a Securities and Exchange filing.

Three days in August 2007 will live forever in algorithmic investing infamy. Numerous quantitatively driven stock funds leapt en masse off a cliff-just like lemmings.