The ever-increasing focus on social and environmental causes is attracting a segment of the hedge fund industry to a movement that is considered by some to be the ultimate test of socially conscious investing.
OTTAWA — In a confusing compromise, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his peers from the provinces and territories agreed last Tuesday that the feds would set up a panel to study the creation of a single Canadian securities regulator.
BOSTON — A San Francisco-based company that says it can help mutual funds cut costs and boost returns through better management of investor cash flows has won its biggest-name client yet — OppenheimerFunds Inc. of New York, the eighth-largest U.S. fund group.
NEW YORK — Recent changes in management at independent-contractor broker-dealer National Planning Corp. and National Planning Holdings Inc., its broker-dealer network, have some of its affiliated advisers concerned, while others accept the changes as part of the business.
NEW YORK — After receiving suggestions from financial professionals, the Social Security Administration has designated a section of its website specifically for advisers.
PHILADELPHIA — A mutual fund company is taking a chance on the burgeoning market of infrastructure investments.
CHICAGO — Data gathered by Boston-based research firm Cerulli Associates Inc. confirm what most observers have long suspected: Fidelity Investments is the nation’s individual-retirement-account powerhouse.
NEW YORK — Advisers may want to exercise some tough love when their clients approach them about going back to school for an advanced degree.
WASHINGTON — Disclosures of 12(b)-1 fees should be made clearer and easier to decipher, but the fees themselves should not be abolished, officials from the mutual fund and brokerage industries said at a Securities and Exchange Commission round table last week.
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. economy has some shaky elements, but Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s track record still is rock solid, according to financial advisers, chief economists and other executives in the investments industry.
