Investments

Global X Funds has launched the Global X Gold Explorers ETF, which it says is the first exchange-traded fund to invest in gold exploration companies.

Fund will buy the stocks of companies that make much of our modern high-tech lives possible.

Bond funds attract $5.31 billion of new money in the week.

The U.S. dollar could lose 20% of its value as a result of the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is pumping into the money supply by purchasing long-term government bonds through QE II, or quantitative easing, part two, Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, told Reuters.

Aston Asset Management, in partnership with Crosswind Investments as sub-advisor, has launched the Aston/Crosswind Small Cap Growth Fund.

Cambridge CTO will provide chief technology officer expertise for funds.

RBC Capital Markets plans to announce Wednesday that Francisco Gonzalez has joined its municipal finance group to focus on large issues.

Baltimore-based global investment management firm has added Craig Sidall, a veteran of institutional investment consulting and client management, as VP and consultant relations manager focusing on Canada.

With close to $2.16 billion of assets, the fixed-income fund can be managed in a nimble style — increasing and decreasing positions without moving the market to its detriment.

Jensen Portfolio tops the list of domestic, large-cap funds

Money market funds continue to waive big chunks of their management fees as yields on cash instruments remain too low to charge the full amount.

Instead of focusing on fund holdings, brokers want to hear how fund offerings can enhance a portfolio and help them grow their business.

Janus Capital Group Inc. announced Monday it launched three separately managed account investment strategies for U.S. institutional investors.

"Uncertainty and doubt remain in the marketplace," according to Strategic Insight.

For the managers of the Thornburg International Value Fund, troubles across the Atlantic are just weak spots in what is, overall, a solid market for overseas investments.

The new offerings were developed in response to client demand for actively managed emerging market equity and global bond strategies.

NEW YORK- Growth in emerging markets has the potential to outpace the U.S. Baby Boomer explosion by 25 times, and as consumption and infrastructure in these nations builds, specialized emerging market exchange-traded funds will become increasingly viable, said Robert Lutts, president and chief investment officer of Cabot Money Management. That even means sector- and style-specific ETFs, Lutts said, as well as diversified emerging markets blend funds, added Paul Weisbruch, vice president of ETF and options sales and trading at Street One Financial.

Strategic Insight, FUSE Research

Build America Bond issuers could potentially go years without subsidy payments under the examination process the Internal Revenue Service is currently considering for them, bond attorneys meeting here warned last week.

Issuers that want to avoid disclosure mishaps — and possible federal enforcement action — should develop and closely follow policies as well as procedures that lay out who must review and sign off on their disclosure documents, Securities and Exchange Commission officials are stressing.