Investments

The platform, which allows clients to obtain two-way dealable prices and execute trades live or with delta exchange, is a component of BofA Merrill’s overall eFX offering.

Currently, wirehouse market share is at 56% of total fee-based managed account assets, but Cerulli Associates predicts that market share will tumble to 50% by 2014.

Recent, surprisingly positive signs for the economy and the markets are on the rise-indicating that investors might return to equities and equity funds in 2011.

PHOENIX-Investors' renewed respect for risk management and interest in global opportunities will drive an entire new wave of index innovation, speakers at Investment Management Network's "Super Bowl of Indexing" predicted last week.

Asset management fees for hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure and real estate have all fallen in both pooled and separately managed accounts, according to the 2010 Asset Manager Fee Survey by Mercer.

Index will generate resources for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Dow Jones has partnered with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to launch the Dow Jones Global Fund 50 Index to help the Global Fund’s cause, with a portion of the revenues generated from licensing the index going to the fund.

Positions are being funded with the help of $2.4 million in state tax credits.

And money market funds saw $32.53 billion in inflows.

In conjunction, ProShares is launching a marketing campaign with the tagline, “The Alternative ETF Company.”

ProShares’ new ProShares RAFI Long/Short exchange-traded fund began trading on NYSE Arca Thursday.

The Financial Services Roundtable offers a common-sense guide to help American’s make the most of their long-term investment decisions and retirement planning.

Nearly $500 million added in week ended Dec. 1, partially reversing the $1.85 billion that walked out the door the previous week.

Deutsche Bank’s fund arm goes the extra mile to promote its funds, a Corporate Insight study finds.

Despite a recovering economy, mass affluent investors believe the recession isn’t quite over.

EDGAR Online said Tuesday it struck agreements that will let it create risk-return summaries in the eXtensible Business Reporting Language for as many as 2,000 out of the roughly 8,000 mutual funds that must meet a new federal requirement for interactive financial filings.

The North Carolina-based company becomes the third bank to sell a guaranteed income option as part of its institutional plan offering.

The average immediate annuity premium is $107,000, and what’s more, 90% of policyholders purchase additional riders that either keep payments flowing to heirs, or that return the balance of the contract to heirs, if the contract holder dies unexpectedly early, according to LIMRA research.

Citigroup, which seeded Claren Road, and a Goldman Sachs fund, which has a minority stake, are using the deal to exit their investments.

PHOENIX—If the U.S. economy grows at Goldman Sachs’ forecast of 2.7% in 2011 and 3.6%, this will represent three years of respectable growth, said Heather Shemilt, managing director and head of the pensions, endowments and foundations group at Goldman Sachs. Shemilt was addressing Information Management Network’s “Super Bowl of Indexing” here Monday. In the first three quarters of this year, the U.S. GDP has grown 2.63%.