Investments

Fred Alger Management, on April 12, 2012, has added Gregory Adams to the portfolio management of the ALger Growth & Income Fund

Exchange-traded funds took in more than $14 billion bringing their total assets to $1.2 trillion as of March 31, according to State Street Global Advisors’ (SSgA’s) ETF Snapshot report for March 2012.

Socially responsible investing has increasingly become hot over the past five years with much of that growth fueled by investors' desires to "marry the utilitarian and expressive characteristics of their investments,'' according to Sheldon McFarland, co-author of a new study, Three Hurdles to Implementing an SRI Mutual Fund Strategy.

Analysts more than ever are monitoring the ebb and flow of cash into municipal bond mutual funds.

The NYSE this week said that its volume of trading in U.S. stocks fell 24% in one year. Here is a series of stats showing how numbered the days of stocks are.

Socially responsible investing has increasingly become hot over the past five years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied up 89.46 points to close at 12,805.39 Wednesday after the Fed’s Beige Book showed the U.S. economy expanded at a modest rate following a generally positive start to the quarterly earnings onslaught.

Franklin reported on April 11, 2012 that its March assets under management were up 3% from a year ago

Wilmington Trust made a multi-strat alternative offering on April 11.

On April 11 SSgA revealed ETF flows and assets for March 2012.

On Aprill 11, Mirae Asset Management named a new retail sales head.

HAGIN Investment on Apirl 11 HAGIN Investment hired an administrator for its first mutual fund.

Whitebox Advisors is making a concerted push into the RIA channel with the help of a new marketing partner.

Investors continue to turn their back on U.S. stock mutual funds. For the week ended April 4, investors pulled $4.27 billion from the funds, the largest weekly outflow so far this year.

Even not-so-wealthy clients now have a chance to participate in alternative investments, courtesy of a new mutual fund with a minimum investment of $1,000 from Wilmington Trust.

Van Eck Global’s Market Vectors ETF Trust has launched an exchange-traded fund that will focus on U.S.-issued “Fallen Angels”—corporate bonds that were rated investment grade at the time of their original issuance but which have since been downgraded to below investment grade status.

Saturna Capital Corporation, investment adviser to the Amana, Sextant, and Idaho Tax-Exempt Mutual Funds, has launched the Sextant Global High Income Fund, which bets on a globally diversified portfolio of debt and equity securities.

Market Vectors launched on Apirl 11, 2011 a new ETF focusing on U.S. Fallen Angel debt

Teucrium launches a family of funds that is jointly dubbed the Teucrium Agricultural Fund. That fund is seeded by the operation of single-product funds, including the Teucrium Corn Fund, Teucrium Soybean Fund, Teucrium Sugar Fund and Teucrium Wheat Fund.

NYSE Euronext said its trading in stocks in the United States was down 23.6 percent in March, compared to last year. In Europe, stocks were down 12.7 percent. Derivatives were down 11.5 percent, worldwide.