Investments

To evolve and succeed, advisors have to make the transition from practitioners to business owners. As a result we've seen larger firms arising as advisors attempt to add scalability.

Tax-exempt money market funds' inflows slowed to $819.6 million in the week ended June 17 after a $3.13 billion surge the week before, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

The first decade of the 21st Century dramatically changed the landscape for financial advisors.

Assets in defined contribution plans flowed to target-date and international equity funds in 2012, according to a new tracking tool launched by the Defined Contribution Solutions group at Northern Trust.

Money market mutual fund’s assets dropped $25.0 billion to $2.587 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, June 19, according to the Investment Company Institute.

iShares has launched the iShares MSCI Colombia Capped ETF (ICOL) to bet on companies in the burgeoning region.

DCIO sponsors take heed.

PIMCO is teaming up retirement technology platform providers Aria Retirement Solutions and insurer Transamerica Advisors Life Insurance Company to market retirement income products to asset-based fee-only Registered Investment Advisors.

Investors pulled $13.34 billion from mutual funds for the week ended Wednesday, June 12, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Christian Thwaites has stepped down as president and chief executive officer of Montpelier, Vt.-based Sentinel Asset Management to pursue other opportunities, according to the firm.

Portland, Maine-based Forum Investment Advisors has launched the Forum ETF Trust, a series trust designed for independent investment advisers to launch and operate actively managed exchange-traded funds ETFs.

State Street Global Advisors, the investment research and trading arm for Boston-based State Street, said it will lose Global Equities CIO Alistair Lowe as it plans to transition toward combining various investment disciplines.

The mutual-fund industry, in what may be the last round of lobbying against tighter rules for money-market funds, rejected a scaled-back proposal to force only the riskiest funds to give up their stable $1 share price.

It’s no secret that the Investment Company Institute is opposed to proposals by the Securities and Exchange Commission to float the net asset value of money market funds and ICI President and CEO Paul Stevens today reiterated the group’s stance on the SEC’s proposal.

Investors pulled $13.34 billion from mutual funds for the week ended Wednesday, June 12, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Paul Jablansky, the head of structured products at fixed-income manager Western Asset Management Co., has left the unit of Legg Mason.

Global asset managers are looking to get their investment data management house in order, according to a study released by DST Global Solutions.

In May, stock and bond mutual funds, including exchange-traded funds attracted $56 billion of net inflows bringing total net intake for the first five months to about $350 billion, according to data from Strategic Insight.

For a majority of financial advisors, life insurance planning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Leawood, Ka.-based Montage Investments has been busy lately adding more sales executives, assets and a new mutual fund to boot.