Investments

Salient Partners, a $17.4 billion asset management firm, has appointed Rusty Guinn and Todd Centurino, as Directors of Investments.

A new survey by InvestingNerd, an online personal investing site, has revealed some “alarming” facts about investors’ lack of knowledge concerning online brokerage accounts, stock trading and 401(k) fees.

Wealth management shop Aspiriant today officially unveiled its maiden mutual fund: Aspiriant Risk-Managed Global Equity Fund (RMEAX).

New research from NerdWallet, a personal finance site, is making a tough case for active managers to justify their fees.

Asset managers ramped up their marketing and compliance staff dedicated to social media efforts by more than 60% from 2011 to 2012, according to new research from Boston-based Cerulli Associates.

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has strengthened its ties with OppenheimerFunds Inc.

Guggenheim Partners is readying a new mutual fund to bet on equity or equity-like securities.

Fidelity's achievement wall is getting a bit crowded these days.

Asset managers ramped up their marketing and compliance staff dedicated to social media efforts by more than 60% from 2011 to 2012, according to new research from Boston-based Cerulli Associates.

New research from NerdWallet, a personal finance site, is making a tough case for active managers to justify their fees.

Projections call for a 1.9% economic growth rate, below the 2.2% average growth in the first three years of recovery since the Great Recession: TD Economics.

A team of former TCW Group equities analysts have joined DoubleLine Capital portfolio managers Husam Nazer and Brendt Stallings managing the DoubleLine Equity LP investment strategies.

The House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing this week to discuss possible tax reforms on financial products such as derivatives.

The Cyprus crisis seems to have the entire world gasping, including equity mutal fund investors.

Nearly half of all middle-class households spend all -- or more than all -- that they make every month, according to a survey by NestWise, LPL Financial’s new online planning service for middle-class investors.

PALM DESERT, Calif.-Norm Champ, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, last week took the first steps in meeting and speaking with members of the Investment Company Institute.

The Cyprus crisis seems to have the entire world gasping, including equity mutal fund investors.

The T. Rowe Price Group Inc.'s CEO James Kennedy and Chairman Brian Rogers each enjoyed a healthy jump in their compensation in 2012.

Collaboration between the Division of Enforcement and the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations at the Securities and Exchange Commission "really is very seamless," according to OCIE director Carlo V. di Florio.

Stocks go up, they go down. Never ends, as fund customers are all too well aware.