Investments

Canadian investors are missing out of up to $500 million a year in yields by sticking with money market funds rather than higher-yielding, insured premium savings accounts, according to a 21-page report from Fair Canada (Foundation for Advancement of Investor Rights).

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced in a pair of filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to introduce a pair of exchange-traded funds.

The company plans to launch its first actively-managed ETF later this year that would invest in about 300 domestic large-cap stocks.

Advent Software has acquired Norwegian software provider Goya AS. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Through this acquisition, Advent now offers the product Tradex, which is complementary to Advent’s existing products and is already implemented at a significant number of Advent clients in Europe and the Middle East.

Union Bank’s licensed retail banker staff should double this year, to about 200, and increase to 325 within three years.

Your dad’s generation could get away with investing domestically; your clients cannot.

Long-term mutual funds took in $12.75 billion in the week ended March 3, marking the 51st straight week for inflows, which now total $500 billion, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Reserve Management submitted court documents Thursday denying that it, founder Bruce Bent or his son Bruce Bent II intentionally tried to mislead investors in the flagship $62 billion Reserve Primary Fund into believing the now-defunct fund that broke the buck was solvent.

Reserve Management submitted court documents Thursday denying that it, founder Bruce Bent or his son Bruce Bent II intentionally tried to mislead investors in the flagship $62 billion Reserve Primary Fund into believing the now-defunct fund that broke the buck was solvent. The defendants also requested a jury trial.

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Long-term mutual funds took in $12.75 billion in the week ended March 3, marking the 51st straight week for inflows, which now total $500 billion, according to the Investment Company Institute.

After the stock market wiped away so many investors' wealth over the past two years, and amid disagreements among economists whether the recovery is sustainable, investors remain on sidelines—even though stocks are up 69% from their March 9, 2009 lows.

Assets held in domestic exchange-traded funds increased last month, but couldn’t quite keep pace with the Standard & Poor’s 500.

The company has already partnered with the city of San Francisco to offer wealth management services to its residents through direct mailings in their water and electric bills.

Bucking their overall skepticism or outright distrust of financial services companies, 90% of Americans trust the advice their financial planners have been giving them amid the financial turmoil of the past two years, according to the First Command Financial Behaviors Index.

When going through a divorce, having just any financial advisor won't do. People need a planner who specializes in the subject and can help clients navigate the difficult emotional and financial terrain ahead.

While financial advisers have been relying on internal wholesalers more heavily since the financial downturn, they are also finding those contacts not as accessible or responsive as they would like.

The top Republican tax-writer in the Senate yesterday warned colleagues that provisions in the House-passed jobs bill that offer high subsidy rates for Build America Bond-type programs would allow Wall Street banks to pocket more in underwriting fees.

Do Buyers Prefer Passive or Active?

While financial advisers have been relying on internal wholesalers more heavily since the financial downturn, they are also finding those contacts not as accessible or responsive as they would like, according to the latest installment in Financial Research Corp.’s Advisor Insight Series, “Wholesaler Effectiveness.” FRC concluded that fund companies may be underestimating and spreading this valuable resource too thinly.