Investments

Looking at the cultural chasm between independent and wirehouse broker/dealers, the fast-growing fee-based separately managed account business seems, to date, to have stayed on the wirehouse side of the divide.

Although there have been a smattering of articles about a reformation at Janus Capital appearing over the past few months, none has been as colorful or as compelling as one last week in Kiplinger's Personal Finance.

Former Fidelity Lawyer Sues Firm Over Policies

Offshoring functions save companies millions of dollars a year, and as the practice matures, financial institutions are moving to the next stage of optimizing their offshoring operations, according to Deloitte & Touche's fourth "Global Financial Services Offshoring" report, based on interviews with 36 financial institutions in eight countries.

SEC Judge Dismisses Late-Trading Case Against Former J.B. Oxford Lawyer

NEW YORK-As unified managed accounts become more well known among investors and financial advisers, firms creating them are faced with questions of what functions to outsource, along with related technology issues and compliance rules, according to panelists at Financial Research Associates' "Unified Managed Account" conference here last week.

At the beginning of this year, Barclays Global Advisors was the only investment management company with a bond exchange-traded fund. Today, however, there are nearly two dozen fixed-income ETFs from the likes of State Street Global Advisors and Vanguard, with more on the way from Bear Stearns and Ameristock.

The markets have gone global, and U.S. regulators ought to catch up if they want keep American exchanges competitive, allowing investors, particularly institutional, greater access, said participants during a roundtable discussion hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington last week.

Even if the Securities and Exchange Commission were to eliminate all restrictions on cross-border trading, retail investors' best bet for access to foreign markets might still be the good-old mutual fund, said panelists during a roundtable discussion in Washington last week hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

NEW YORK-Global warming will have major economic, environmental and societal impacts if steps are not taken to help reduce the problem, and increasingly investors and the public are aware of this sobering fact.

Fidelity Reduces Profit Goals for Adviser Services

Zader Becomes Chief Exec Of UMB Fund Services

Initiatives at IXIS Asset Management Advisors of Boston will not be slowing down this summer. The firm, a manager of managers with 15 affiliates in its stable, will be cutting several of its mutual funds' management fees, putting its B Share classes into permanent storage and polishing up a new brand name. But it will keep its tag line: The Name Behind the Names.

It is an honor for Money Management Executive to sponsor SourceMedia's 2007 Fund Operations Awards, our fifth annual, and we would like to thank all those who entered their thoughtful submissions, as well as this year's panel of judges, who gave so generously of their time to assess the impressive entries: T. Neil Bathon, managing director, PMR Associates, Peter Delano, senior analyst, investment management, TowerGroup, Bob Goldberg, president emeritus, The National Investment Company Service Association, Burton J. Greenwald, president, B.J. Greenwald Associates, Vincent Walsh, managing director, advisory services practice, KPMG and Kathleen Whalen, managing director, Dalbar.

It is an honor for Money Management Executive to sponsor SourceMedia's 2007 Fund Operations Awards, our fifth annual, and we would like to thank all those who entered their thoughtful submissions, as well as this year's panel of judges, who gave so generously of their time to assess the impressive entries: T. Neil Bathon, managing director, PMR Associates, Peter Delano, senior analyst, investment management, TowerGroup, Bob Goldberg, president emeritus, The National Investment Company Service Association, Burton J. Greenwald, president, B.J. Greenwald Associates, Vincent Walsh, managing director, advisory services practice, KPMG and Kathleen Whalen, managing director, Dalbar.

Two Former Putnam Execs Avoid Draconian' Charges

Scamming U.S. Military: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Retirement confidence remains high among minorities, despite the fact that they are saving less than they were three years ago.

Relying on the brand recognition of the Lipper name, the cache of exchange-traded funds, and the buzz around target-risk investing, Parsippany, N.J.-based Hennion & Walsh Asset Management is hoping to attract attention, flows and perhaps some space on 401(k) platforms.

When hedge funds, long known for their exclusivity and secret-sauce approach to investing, go public, it takes a lot of planning and some cultural adjustment, too, according to a web-based presentation hosted by Deloitte & Touche last week.