Products

National Planning Holdings, Inc. (NPH) announced the launch of WealthOne, a Web-based advisory platform that offers investment strategies and products to all NPH-affiliated advisers.

Brinker Capital has announced plans to launch an absolute return portfolio embedded in a separately managed account (SMA) format.

Virtus Investment Partners has launched the Virtus Premium AlphaSector Fund (Class A: VAPAX), an extension of Virtus' AlphaSector product suite that is subadvised by quantitatively-based investment firm F-Squared...

Rydex|SGI has introduced four mutual funds “that may help investors weather the ups and downs of challenging market environments.”

Russell Investments has announced a new offering that "provides advisers with a next-generation tool that responds to current market conditions while still providing long-term risk management."  

Interactive Data Corporation has announced that it is providing end-of-day index values as well as analytics capabilities for ten of Accretive Asset Management, LLC’s Bulletshares USD Corporate Bond...

 Russell Investments has launched what it says is the first U.S. multi-manager mutual fund with a specific commodities mandate.

 Schneider Downs Wealth Management Advisors, LP has announced a name change for its retirement plan division.

 On June 29 Invesco PowerShares Capital Management, LLC and Deutsche Bank launched two Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) linked to CBOT Ultra T-Bond futures.

 Nuveen Investments announced additional efforts in developing its business platform that serves the employer-sponsored retirement market as a defined contribution investment only (DCIO) service provider.

 ReFlow Management Co., LLC has introduced the ReFlow Fund Flow Volatility Index (FLIX Index), designed to help mutual fund managers better understand fluctuating asset flows and their impacts...

UBS Investment Bank announced the new UBS E-TRACS 2x Leveraged Long Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index has begun trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol, MLPL.

EGShares has launched the India Small Cap ETF (NYSE: SCIN).

 Investment Risk Management Systems Inc. has released a new Web-based tool that uses risk, return and persistence ratings to identify funds with low risk and high returns.

 Standard & Poor's has launched a series of credit default swap sector indexes. 

 Fidelity Investments has announced it has restructured its 20‐year‐old Select Environmental Portfolio to increase exposure to faster growing industries, such as alternative energy and energy efficiency, while reducing...

Transamerica Retirement Services recently launched two new resources to help third party administrators build and expand their own retirement plan business. 

Morningstar, Inc. has created the Morningstar StockInvestor Core Index , a diversified portfolio of stocks from the Tortoise and Hare portfolios featured in the Morningstar StockInvestor newsletter.

Invesco PowerShares announced that five existing portfolios will undergo index and name changes effective on Wednesday.

Charles Schwab, has announced additional details on the integrated technology platform the company is developing.