Investments

Discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp is reviewing whether to add a warning when a customer is about to trade certain exchange-traded products, in one of the strongest warnings yet for retail investors about these esoteric securities.

Expanding its relationship with Wellington Management, The Hartford is relocating the headquarters of its mutual funds business to Radnor, Pennsylvania, in a complex where Wellington also has an office. It also plans to hire as many as 50 new sales people to this office, adding to the already existing 100 person force nationwide, to support sales of its funds in the advisor-sold and defined contribution investment only (DCIO) channels. .

Despite wildly different 10-year returns, international stock funds all have similar impact in a 12-asset portfolio.

One reader took exception to a line in the article, "The Rich Rush To REITs," which appeared in the March 2012 issue of On Wall Street. The reader writes:

As it turns out, losing to the S&P 500 last year wasn't quite as shameful as we thought.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average picked up another 66.22 points to close at 13,212.04 Friday while the S&P 500 added 5.19 points to finish at 1,208.47.

Tradewinds Global Investors, a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, is throwing in the towel on its Global All-Cap Plus Fund.

Henderson Global Investors Inc. has launched an all asset fund aiming at long-term growth of capital with lower volatility through flexible allocation across a wide range of asset classes around the world.

Peter Dorsey has been named the new managing director of institutional sales for TD Ameritrade Institutional, a division of TD Ameritrade, Inc.

Mutual funds come in every shape, size and color imaginable. How else are newcomers and smaller fund firms supposed to contend against 8,500 of their peers, already extant?

There were more than 7,693 mutual funds at the end of February 2012, according data from the Investment Company Institute.

The moment was remarkable, if not dramatic.

Investment advisor Matthew Tuttle spends a lot of time moving the money of newly-acquired clients out of mutual funds and into exchanged-traded instruments.

Los Angeles, Calif.-based Oaktree Capital Group, LLC has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO priced at $595 million with Class A units valued between $43 and $46 per share.

Investors under 50 have a general understanding of the tax advantages of IRAs but appear to confuse the specific benefits of traditional and Roth IRAs.

Lazard Asset Management LLC has launched the Lazard Global Fixed Income Portfolio targeting both institutional and individual investors.

Mutual fund families routinely, and on purpose, use the capital in affiliated funds as “insurance pools” to offset or prevent cash shortfalls in other funds within family, according to research released by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

It is the third ProShares ETF providing inverse exposure to long-term Treasurys.

Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. financial services industry took a dip last year but potential sell-offs in Europe could pave the way for a better M&A market for 2012 and beyond, according to a new PwC report.

1492 Capital Management is jumpstarting its mutual fund business with the addition of Michael Micciche as vice president of sales, responsible for developing the sales strategy across market segments and investors.