Investments

BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager, is planning to become an exchange operator.

Nine mutual fund providers can expect to see not only positive, but stronger-than-average investment momentum from investors in 2012, according to findings in the 2012 Investor Brandscape, an annual report released earlier this month by Cogent Research.

On April 12, Cogent named nine fund firms that were most likely to gain business from affluent investors.

On April 11, the ICI said investors yanked $4.7 billion from stock mutual funds.

On April 12, BlackRock revealed plans to become an exchange operator.

A day after snapping a five-session losing streak, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied up another 181.19 points Thursday to close at 12,986.58.

On April 12, 2012, Janus Capital Group asked its shareholders to vote in favor of a new chief executive officer compensation plan that will cap CEO pay at $10 million, tie it directly to year-over-year change in operating income and comprise it with 40% cash and 60% long-term incentives.

Advisors looking to diversify client portfolios into international and emerging markets investments should take a close look at Latin America, says Heiner Skaliks, portfolio manager of the Strategic Latin America Fund.

On April 12, 2012, J.P. Morgan announced that it had been appointed by PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company LLC), to offer two PIMCO U.S.-registered exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the international segment of the Mexican Stock Exchange, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV).

On April 12, 2012, AllianceBernstein reported that preliminary assets under management dipped 1.2%, to $419 billion, at the end of March compared to the previous month.

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.