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Goldman Sachs has reshuffled a number of senior positions in its equities division in response to recent executive departures.

So you want to tap into the global markets and find new opportunities for growth?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied up 217.97 points to 13,177.68 Tuesday while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 added 56.22 points and 24.86 points, respectively.

Kip Meadows is the founder and acting chairman of Nottingham Investment Administration, which services more than $25 billion in assets for mutual funds and asset managers.

Goldman Sachs has reshuffled a number of senior positions in its equities division in response to recent executive departures.

Nearly one out of four pension plan participants invest solely in target-date funds, according to new research released from The Vanguard Group—a six-fold increase over the past five years.

Walt Bettinger, president and chief executive of The Charles Schwab Corporation, has a few reasons to smile today.

San Francisco, Calif-based Forward Management, LLC today unveiled its latest offering, the Forward Managed Futures Strategy Fund, a systematic, trend-following vehicle that will bet long and short exposure on liquid futures contracts in commodities, equities, bonds and currencies.

La Jolla, Calif.-based Altegris, an alternative mutual fund shop, has hired Amy Bennett as its new director, sales strategy and channel marketing, reporting to Andrea Trachtenberg, chief marketing officer.

lients of RidgeWorth Investments will now be able to access a variety of functions and data from their investment accounts thanks to a new application available for the iPad.

Putnam Investments today named Scott C. Sipple as head of investment product management and development, responsible for overseeing the firm’s equity, fixed income and global asset allocation product management and development teams.

High-yield bonds may sound risky, but they have some advantages in the current market environment, according to a BlackRock report.

More than half of those surveyed have investable assets of less than $25,000.

M&T Bank and Wilmington Trust have reorganized the MTB Group of Funds and Wilmington Funds into one fund family one year after their merger and two months after M&T bank revealed plans to merge its brand its funds with the Wilmington moniker.

Pension fund managers should consider managing for a total outcome rather than focusing on the returns of individual strategies or asset classes to respond to the volatility and risk now plaguing their plans, according to a paper recently released by State Street Global Advisors.

Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO of the Investment Company Institute, said the SEC has “pre-judged” the results of the 2010 round of reforms to money market mutual funds. And that a second round will undermine funds altogether.

BlackRock is looking to do some good while doing well at the same time with its latest values-based exchange-traded fund focusing on human rights.

Van Eck Global has filed for permission from the SEC to create exchange-traded fund share classes of at least one of its five mutual funds.

Although defined contribution fund managers pay lip service to global investment opportunities, many DC plans actually have a “home bias” in their investments and are severely underweighted in their overseas exposure, according to a paper released by OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. has doubled its sales force, to 220 staffers, serving financial advisors in an initiative to promote its exchange traded-fund products.