Investments

INTECH Investment Management LLC (INTECH), an independently managed subsidiary of Janus Capital Group Inc., launched two global dividend strategies: one focused on seeking capital appreciation and higher-than-average dividend yields and the other focused on absolute risk.

Investors are interested in adding alternative assets to their IRAs, but lack the expertise — and often the advisors — to go about it.

There were 7,693 mutual funds in February 2012, so how do women-managed funds find a way to stand out in this $12 trillion industry?

There were more than 8,500 mutual funds at the end of 2010, according to the 2011 Investment Company Fact Book. They range from long only equity and bond funds to alternative long/short mutual funds.

The IRS has launched a compliance practice research team that will seek to identify red-flags indicating questionable municipal bond transactions.

Allianz will still own about 5% percent of the company, worth approximately $464 million.

For some Dow component stocks, the first three months of the year were forgettable. Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the 5 worst-performing Dow stocks so far this year.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 64.94 points to close at 13,199.55 Tuesday as investors digested the release of minutes from the Fed’s latest policy-setting meeting in March.

Milwaukee, Wisc.-based CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors has teamed up with Academy Asset Management, a Philadelphia, Pa.-based investment advisor to launch Innovator Management LLC, purveyor of the Innovator Matrix income Fund.

Independent mutual fund service provider Ultimus Fund Solutions, LLC has hired Kirk Littleton as director of business development to help the company double its business within the next seven years.

It looks like iShares isn’t going to be scared off that easily by the BATS Exchanges’s glitch last month.

Principal Funds has added three new regional directors to the firm’s investment only team: Marcel Dawson, Gary Nakamura and Pamela Suing. Each will focus on growth within the registered investment advisor distribution channel.

Investors’ confidence rose during the first quarter of 2012, according to the newly-released John Hancock Investor Sentiment Index.

Market Vectors ETF Trust has launched the International High Yield Bond ETF, which bet on the corporate high-yield bond market.

The percentage of investors who believe they’re in a better financial position today than they were two years ago rose to 43% in the first quarter, compared with 33% in the last quarter of 2011.

BlackRock Investments Canada Inc. has appointed Mary Anne Wiley managing director and head of its combined exchange-traded fund business, replacing Som Seif, founder and chief executive of the recently-acquired Claymore Investments, Inc.

The moment was remarkable, if not dramatic.

Invesco’s shareholders of the Invesco High Income Municipal Fund and the Invesco U.S. Mid Cap Value Fund have approved a plan to merge those funds into the Invesco Van Kampen High Yield Municipal Fund and Invesco Van Kampen American Value Fund.

SEI, a provider of investment processing, fund processing, and investment management business outsourcing services, has appointed Stephen Beinhacker as Global Head of Equities for SEI's Investment Management Unit.

Financial advisors such as Matthew Tuttle represent the front lines of raging conflict between mutual funds and exchange-traded products, in particular over management fees and related costs.