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FIXED INCOME AUG 19, 2010
Financial adviser pleads guilty in muni bond bid-rigging case

A New York financial adviser pleaded guilty to rigging bids for investments sold to local governments, the fifth person to admit participating in an industrywide conspiracy to profit at taxpayers' expense.

By Bloomberg
FINTECH AUG 19, 2010
Broadridge rolls out new ETF tool

Tool will help ETF providers to focus their marketing and educational materials on the needs of advisers.

By Jessica Toonkel
ETFS AUG 18, 2010
Two more firms pull the plug on ETFs

Grail Advisors, Claymore Securities bag several smaller funds; more firms to follow suit?

By Bloomberg
FIXED INCOME AUG 18, 2010
Gov't bonds are anything but 'risk-free': First Eagle's McLennan

Buyers of government bonds beware. Efforts by central banks to stimulate the global economy are distorting bond and currency prices and causing potential economic dislocation, according to Matthew McLennan, a portfolio manager for the First Eagle family of funds.

By Bloomberg
Vanguard targeting advisers, institutions with new funds
ETFS AUG 18, 2010
Vanguard targeting advisers, institutions with new funds

Vanguard said Thursday it will expand its index investment offerings with 19 new mutual funds, each with an exchange-traded fund version holding the same stocks or bonds as the companion mutual fund.

By Associated Press
FIXED INCOME AUG 17, 2010
High-yield bonds get more heft

A weak economy, dropping stock market and low interest rates are bringing a strong boom to the weakest-rated fixed-income sector — high yield — giving investors top relative returns.

By Barry B. Burr
ALTERNATIVES AUG 17, 2010
Gross calls for U.S. to refinance home mortgages

Pimco's Bill Gross said the U.S. government should offer to refinance mortgages for homeowners as a way to stimulate the struggling economy.

By Dan Jamieson
A sweet buy: Hershey options
ALTERNATIVES AUG 17, 2010
A sweet buy: Hershey options

Investors should purchase Hershey Co. options because their prices don't reflect the high probability that Nestle SA will bid for the candymaker, according to Capstone Global Markets LLC said.

By Bloomberg
EQUITIES AUG 17, 2010
Tea Party may hold key to second-half market rally

Growing dissatisfaction among conservatives and independents with President Barack Obama before this year's midterm elections is good news for stock investors if history is any guide.

By Bloomberg
EQUITIES AUG 16, 2010
BlackRock's Bob Doll: Where we go from here

Bob Doll, the vice chairman and chief equity strategist at Blackrock, sat down with InvestmentNews to offer his thoughts on the direction of the global markets, as well as interest rates, over the next several weeks and for the remainder of 2010.

By Mark Bruno
ETFS AUG 16, 2010
BlackRock, Dreyfus, Huntington file to launch active ETFs

The three firm companies join the growing number of firms looking to get into the active ETF area.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
EQUITIES AUG 15, 2010
An overview of SMA performance in the second quarter

The second quarter opened up with high hopes and generally positive expectations for the remainder of the year. As noted last quarter, there was a wide variety of opinions on the strength of the recovery but a strong majority believed a recovery was in fact under way.

By Nathan Behan
MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 11, 2010
Flash crash aftermath? Mutual funds hardly hit

The recent turbulence in global stock markets prompted just a small portion of mutual fund investors to pull out of stocks in May, according to research firm Strategic Insight.

By Jeff Benjamin
MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 10, 2010
Hennessy eyes nixing 12(b)-1 fees on two funds

Management isn't convinced it needs the marketing fees to attract assets; 'bang for the buck'?

By Jessica Toonkel
EQUITIES AUG 10, 2010
John Hussman: Don't take the bait -- stocks are not cheap

Important metrics of economic activity are slowing rapidly.

By John Hussman
ETFS AUG 10, 2010
ETF providers take action after recent 'flash crash'

As regulators and stock exchanges try to figure out what caused the 1,000-point stock market drop May 6, exchange-traded-fund providers are doing damage control.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
ETFS AUG 10, 2010
ETF providers want say on flash-crash rules

As regulators and stock exchange officials discuss putting rules in place to make sure that the market volatility of May 6 never happens again, exchange-traded-fund providers are making sure considerations are made for their offerings

By Bloomberg
ALTERNATIVES AUG 09, 2010
UBS: Sell S&P 500 options

By Bloomberg
FIXED INCOME AUG 09, 2010
Fixed-income allocations: How to evaluate your next move

What are the key distinctions in choosing individual bonds or bond funds for fixed income allocations?

By John Radtke, President, Incapital
H-P's slide bad news for three Fidelity funds
MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 08, 2010
H-P's slide bad news for three Fidelity funds

Investors in three of Fidelity Investments' mutual funds have the most to lose in the wake of the resignation of Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Mark Hurd, though analysts said that they think that the stock is a better buy now as a result of the scandal.

By Jessica Toonkel