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ETFS JUL 29, 2010
Nuveen jumps into ETF market

Nuveen hopes this type of arrangement is just the first of many as it hopes to subadvise more muni bond ETFs

ALTERNATIVES JUL 27, 2010
Prominent rabbi tried to blackmail Conn. hedge fund, court finds

A prominent Brooklyn rabbi has been convicted in a scheme to extort a Connecticut-based hedge fund into paying millions of dollars to two schools.

FIXED INCOME JUL 27, 2010
Fugitive who bilked Pimco, others found 'living in the lap of luxury'

Rebecca Parrett, who bilked Pimco and others out of $3 billion, had been on the lam since March 2009. Yesterday, she was arrested in a Mexican resort. Said a U.S. Marshal: 'For somebody who was on the run, it was pretty good.'

ALTERNATIVES JUL 27, 2010
Ex-cop used investors' cash to build dream vacation home: Prosecutors

A former Bend police captain and his wife who have been under investigation by the FBI and IRS over their real estate dealings in Oregon and Indiana have been indicted on fraud charges.

FIXED INCOME JUL 27, 2010
Ex-NBA star's $1.45M arbitration claim against Morgan Keegan is upheld

A federal judge has upheld a $1.47 million arbitration award given last fall to former NBA star Horace Grant for losses he sustained on investments in failed Regions Morgan Keegan Select bond funds.

EQUITIES JUL 27, 2010
Why Barton Biggs is selling his tech stocks now

Traxis Partners LLC's Barton Biggs sold almost all his U.S. technology shares last week.

EQUITIES JUL 27, 2010
Bill Miller: Forget a double-dip, S&P is set to spike

Legg Mason Inc.'s Bill Miller said the U.S. stock market, which has dropped 12 percent from its April high on concerns Europe's debt crisis may spread, will rise after the region's banks complete stress tests.

EQUITIES JUL 27, 2010
Barton Biggs is betting on the tech sector — and a 20% rally

U.S. stocks could jump as much as 20 percent, led by technology companies, as the global economy rebounds from Europe's debt crisis, said Barton Biggs.

FIXED INCOME JUL 27, 2010
Morgan Keegan to square off against regulators

Morgan Keegan & Co. has been granted an administration hearing on allegations that its brokerage firm cost investors, including retirees, more than $2 billion in losses through fraudulent and reckless business practices.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 26, 2010
Q&A: AllianceBernstein's Peter Kraus

It's been just over a year since Peter Kraus took over as CEO of AllianceBernstein LP.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 25, 2010
Private-equity-fund advisers balk at new oversight rules

Financial advisers to some private-equity funds fear that efforts to reduce systemic risk in the financial markets, a key theme of the massive reform bill signed into law last week, are unfairly targeting them.

ETFS JUL 23, 2010
Invesco to slow parade of new products after launching small-cap ETFs

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC today launched nine small-cap-sector exchange-traded funds, but that's going to be the last new offerings the firm rolls out for a while.

Janus rolls out a new value income fund
MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 22, 2010
Janus rolls out a new value income fund

Janus Capital Group Inc. has introduced a value income fund using managers from both its internal fixed-income team and its Perkins Investment Management LLC subsidiary.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 22, 2010
Janus losing portfolio manager of $2.4B fund

Laurent Saltiel, manager of Janus Capital Group Inc.'s $2.44 billion Worldwide Fund, will leave the firm at the end of May.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 22, 2010
ETFs' siren song still lures managers

As a new crop of money managers and investment banks enters the hot market of exchange-traded funds, the challenge already has proved too much for some in a sector where scale is key.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 20, 2010
Money managers' assets slipped 4% in 2009

While the market recovered in 2009, most asset managers did not, according to a report Tuesday from The Boston Consulting Group.

RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 20, 2010
Advisers weighing Goldman's push into 401(k) market

Goldman Sachs Asset Management's effort to expand its small defined-contribution business by offering custom target date funds has caught the attention of advisers.

EMERGING MARKETS JUL 20, 2010
Beware of double-dip recession, investment managers warn

The U.S. economy could well be headed for another downturn — and financial advisers should direct clients to move their money out of the domestic equities market and into long-range opportunities overseas and alternative-asset classes, two well-known investment managers said last week.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 18, 2010
American Funds plans to open mortgage, municipal bond funds

Capital Group Cos., the largest U.S. manager of stock mutual funds, asked regulators for permission to open its first new fixed-income products in four years.

FIXED INCOME JUL 18, 2010
Bond funds could be squeezed by new financial reforms

Fixed-income fund managers likely will face heightened margin requirements when trading privately negotiated derivatives under the new financial services reform bill.