Investments

Institutional investors held around half of total equity exchang-traded fund assets in 2012, according to a new report from Strategic Insight.

WisdomTree Asset Management is prepping the WisdomTree Brazil Bond Fund (BBF) to launch within the next few months.

New findings from Boston-based global analytics firm Cerulli Associates show that clients feel their advisors often recommend products that do not fit their risk profiles.

The investment management industry is undergoing a transformation.

After experiencing nearly 30 years of benign, cooperative capital-markets behavior, Ken Haman says many advisors are baffled or frustrated by how difficult it has become to get clients to accept new investment ideas. But if we can understand more accurately how humans cope with anticipating various outcomes, we can structure our messaging to be more effective at getting clients to take the right kinds of actions.

Nuveen Investments has launched two new dividend-focused funds.

Mutual funds, especially of the equity variety, enjoyed the affections of investors in February, celebrating net inflows for the month.

Mutual funds, especially of the equity variety, enjoyed the affections of investors in February, celebrating net inflows for the month.

Los Angeles-based Aspiriant is launching a new equity fund dubbed the Aspiriant Risk Managed Global Equity Fund, which will bet on a diverse group of common stocks of companies in developed and emerging markets with an emphasis on small capitalization and value companies.

Grandeur Peak Global Advisors is growing.

AdvisorShares is launching a new actively managed exchange traded fund tomorrow.

Nuveen Investments has launched two new dividend-focused funds.

BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest money manager, is cutting about 300 jobs, extending a reorganization that included the shakeup of its investment units last year.

Sentinel Investments has hired Jason Ronovech, as lead portfolio manager of both the Sentinel Small Company Fund (SAGWX) and Sentinel Mid Cap Fund (SNTNX).

If you’re outsourcing record-keeping around the world, you still have to oversee it, for compliance purposes, experts and asset managers say.

PALM DESERT, Calif.—Developing products to meet intermediary demands is one challenge but a whole new can of worms is opened once that product hits the market.

The second set of reforms of the money market mutual fund industry now being considered will be an “interesting test case” of regulators’ ability to conduct effective analysis of the costs and benefits of rules they institute, according to a former director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

PALM DERSERT, Calif. Hurricane Sandy caused major disruptions in the financial services industry.

BlackRock is cutting about 300 jobs, extending a reorganization that included the shakeup of its investment units last year.

Federal regulators would “like to codify exemptive relief” from provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, so they can focus on more innovative fund applications.