Investments

iShares has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch the iShares Latin America Bond Fund, which is benchmarked to the Barclays Latin America Bond Index.

Morningstar, Inc. recently filed a comment letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission urging the regulator to require target-date series to provide more details on how the investments are managed and structured.

State Street Global Markets today said that its broker dealer omnibus trading capabilities have been added to its Fund Connect money market fund trading platform.

Morningstar has launched Annuity Intelligence, a web-based research and evaluation tool for advisors and broker-dealers charged with finding the best variable annuity products for their clients.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mary L. Schapiro did not 'break the buck' at the annual membership meeting of the Investment Company Institute.

Trading opened a half hour late Friday. Orders placed on its IPO Cross system did not get delivered to the market. For about two hours, Nasdaq could not issue quotes on Facebook shares. And, yet, it continued trading in Facebook shares, a possible violation of Regulation National Market System.

Over the past year, nearly 70 mutual funds have snapped up pre-IPO shares of Facebook on private markets ahead of its IPO today, CNNMoney reports.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed another 73.11 points to close at 12,369.38 and Facebook’s much-hyped initial public offering failed to prop up the downtrodden tech sector as the Nasdaq dropped 34.90 points to finish at 2,778.79.

On May 18, 201, Invesco’s Small Companies Fund will change its name to...

Andrew Engel, a portfolio manager at Minneapolis-based Leuthold Weeden Capital Management, passed away on May 9, according to the firm.

Over the past year, nearly 70 mutual funds have snapped up pre-IPO shares of Facebook on private markets ahead of its IPO today, CNNMoney reports.

On May 18, 2012, Investors snubbed U.S. stock mutual funds yet again, according to the latest statistics from the Investment Company Institute.

Indexed annuities were one bright spot in the market, hitting $8.1 billion in sales, up 14% from the year-ago period.

Cantor Fitzgerald has hired five investment professionals to expand its presence in emerging markets in Latin American, with a particular emphasis on Brazil.

On May 18, 2012, The Hartford unveils its latest chief investment officer.

Altegris Advisors has launched the Altegris Equity Long Short Fund (ELSAX), designed to generate and capture alpha on the long and short side of the equity markets, predominantly US stocks.

The hunger for paper and search for yield in the municipal market reached their limits this week.

As the brokerage is learning with Joe Ricketts, even a casual connection to a founder or former CEO can carry reputational risks in the social media age.

On May 17, 2012, Brendan Clark was named president of Clark Capital Management Group, taking over for his father, Harry Clark, who founded the firm and will continue as chairman and chief executive officer.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged another 156.06 points to end at 12,442.49 Thursday as Wall Street preps for Facebook’s much-anticipated debut on Friday.