Global investing

TIAA-CREF has appointed Robert Leary as executive vice president and president of TIAA-CREF Asset Management, effective June 24, 2013.

F-Squared Investments this week announced that its assets under management topped $10 billion as of January 4, up from approximately $5.6 billion in the previous year.

Who better to help kickoff an educational alternatives summit series than Jeffrey Gundlach?

Cerulli's latest Retirement Edition is out, this time with insight into the development of institutional investment vehicles, particularly collective trust funds (CTFs).

PIMCO is looking to launch the an emerging markets bond fund sometime in the first quarter of 2013.

The membership of the fund services industry association Thursday morning named five new directors to its board and Fred Naddaff of Sungard as the board's chairman.

Total managed solutions assets ended the second quarter at $2.5 trillion, a decline of $600 million or less than 0.1% from the first quarter, according to data from The Money Management Institute.

Curian Capital has rolled out two alternative-focused strategies for separate accounts.

Year-to-date, total annuity sales declined eight percent compared to the first half of 2011, reaching $57.0 billion, according to LIMRA.

Anchor Capital Advisors will hire Michael C. Pierre as portfolio manager and acquire the client accounts that he manages from Moody Aldrich Partners.

On August 30, the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration participant fee disclosure rule, dubbed ERISA 404(a)(5), will go into effect.

On May 22, 2012, Washington, D.C.-based Money Management Institute today released the early edition of MMI CENTRAL Q2 2012.

On May 9, 2012, Neuberger Berman has launched the Neuberger Berman Long Short Fund (NLSAX, NLSCX, NLSIX), designed to provide investors with a long-short investment strategy that seeks long-term capital appreciation and principal preservation.

The next black swan in the financial industry is likely to be rising interest rates. And there could be a “good” black swan event: a rally over the next 10 years in stocks, said speakers at NICSA’s 30th Annual Conference and Expo.

Even as the company sets out on a second round of cost-cutting in Project New BAC, chief executive officer Brian Moynihan said the company considers Wealth Management one of its core businesses – and will increase efforts to build it up.

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The International Securities Exchange said Thursday that it intended to provide venture capital to the exchange-traded product industry.

Money and time are both precious commodities at family offices, and Fidelity Investments’ 140 single-family office clients were looking for ways to help their clients get on top of the administrative tasks involved in doing good.

Lord Abbett and Wilshire Associates have partnered to launch Pro Active Income Solutions, an actively managed approach designed to deliver income for the independent advisory market. The solution combines Wilshire’s dynamic asset-allocation capabilities and Lord Abbett’s comprehensive suite of fixed income mutual funds.

Edward Jones has added UMA Models to its advisory platform for its 12,000 advisers, Edward Jones Advisory Solutions.