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France, Germany and others, meanwhile, are uncomfortable with the powers of the EU’s new securities regulator.

After a short-lived period of inflows last week, tax-exempt money market funds experienced $1.81 billion of outflows and settled at $330.29 billion in total net assets for the week ending Oct. 11, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

European Union talks on granting hedge funds a Continental passport to do business and subjecting them to oversight by the new securities regulator has hit an impasse, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Van Eck Global has launched the Market Vectors China ETF, a U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund that tacks the performance of the CSI 300 Index from China Securities Index Co. to give investors exposure to the A-shares traded on China’s two main exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen. These shares account for 72% of China’s equities, whereas H-shares, or shares traded on lesser exchanges in Hong Kong and elsewhere, account for 13% of China’s total equity market.

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Fidelity has been underwriting more bonds than since the late 1980s.

Seeing an increased appetite for munis from individual buyers, Fidelity Investments has ramped up its underwriting capabilities in recent years, saying it wants to give clients quicker access to new product with better prices and more transparency.

TD Ameritrade’s bold move to offer 101 commission-free ETFs is likely to bolster the trend.

Expert investors and analysts have been saying it for years: Economies in the emerging markets have become so sophisticated that the so-called frontier markets are becoming the place to find richer yields.

Eaton Vance Management has launched the Eaton Vance Richard Bernstein Multi-Market Equity Strategy Fund, which will be managed by Richard Bernstein, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of sub-advisor Richard Bernstein Advisors.

The Russell Frontier Index offers broad coverage of African countries, which had been previously underrepresented.

Citigroup has become the second fund administrator to implement a new technology platform specifically designed for servicing hedge funds-of-funds.

Despite positive performance from “risky asset markets,” the typical U.S. corporate pension plan saw its funding ratio drop by 1% thanks to the drowning effects of high rising liabilities, a new study claims. In a Friday analysis, UBS Global Asset ...

Some parts of the fixed-income market are hard to track with a traditional ETF.

TD Ameritrade is lifting the trading commissions on 101 exchange-traded funds indefinitely. Investors must hold the ETFs for at least 30 days, however; otherwise they will be charged the standard $9.99 fee.

Vanguard Group removed AllianceBernstein as manager of the Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund, replacing it with Wellington Management and Delaware Investments. William Blair will continue to run one-third of the fund.

While hedge funds that have sought non-traditional investors have gone the ’40 Act route through funds-of-funds structures, they should consider separately managed accounts, according to a report from Pershing and Greenwich Associates based on detailed interviews with 41 hedge fund and investment managers and 27 institutional investors.

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While annuity sales are down for the first half of the year overall, second-quarter sales go a long way to closing the gap.

To help investors take advantage of opportunities created by shifting financial trends, Russell Investments has launched the Russell Global Infrastructure Fund and the Russell Global Credit Strategies Fund and added the two to the Russell LifePoints Funds Target Portfolio Series and the Russell Core Model Strategies.