Investments

Retirement plan provider ShareBuilder 401k has expanded its All-ETF 401(k) platform with five new funds.

T. Rowe Price has unveiled the iPad edition of T. Rowe Price Investor, the company’s quarterly magazine for mutual fund shareholders.

PIMCO is getting a new ticker for its closely-watched Total Return Exchange Traded Fund: BOND.

The outflow of $1.8 billion in the week ended March 21 compares to $2.9 billion pulled from such funds in the prior week. The last time domestic equity funds saw an inflow was the week of Feb. 15 when they picked up $46 million.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 71.52 points to end at 13,126.21 Wednesday while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 lopped off 15.39 points and 6.98 points, respectively.

The exodus of capital from mutual funds investing in domestic stocks slowed down last week.

In order to improve investor access to the fund, PIMCO will change the NYSE ticker for its Total Return ETF from TRXT to BOND on April 4, 2012.

T. Rowe Price today unveiled the iPad edition of T. Rowe Price Investor, the company’s quarterly magazine for mutual fund shareholders.

Guinness Atkinson Asset Management, advisor to the Guinness Atkinson Funds, has launched a new equity aimed at providing investors with current income and consistent dividend that will exceed inflation.

Multi-asset manager Virtus Investment Partners has launched a mobile app designed to give users access to what the firm has to say about the latest developments in the financial markets.

Retirement plan provider ShareBuilder 401k has expanded its All-ETF 401(k) platform with five new funds.

In the wake of The Hartford’s recent decision to place its individual annuity business “into a runoff,” Edward Jones this week has stopped offering the firm’s annuities and has suspended sales of new life insurance policies and retirement plans pending the eventual resolution of the uncertainty surrounding these businesses.

While the municipal bond market is still strong, experts agree that increasing local financial strain makes the landscape more complex.

The iShares MSCI Frontier 100 Index Fund will have regional exposure to countries such as Croatia, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam with sector exposure to energy, financial and telecommunication services companies. The ETF will also bet on futures, options and swap contracts.

Santa Fe, N.M.-based Teucrium Trading, LLC unveiled the Teucrium Agricultural Fund, which is being touted as the first fund to offer exposure to agricultural commodities in a single fund of exchange-traded funds.

The world’s largest asset manager – with $3.5 trillion under its auspices as of Dec. 31 -- still is the only firm with shares of any sort listed on the rival to the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Santa Fe, N.M.-based Teucrium Trading, LLC today unveiled the Teucrium Agricultural Fund, which is being touted as the first fund to offer exposure to agricultural commodities in a single fund of exchange-traded funds.

Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. has promoted Jamie Kosharek to southeast regional director for the Financial Institutions Division.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 43.90 points to finish at 13,197.73 Tuesday with most of the losses coming in the last couple hours of trading.

Financial services firms, including mutual fund managers, admitted that they invited negative public perception by their actions, or inactions, according to the 2012 Makovsky Wall Street Reputation Study.