Partner News 

For wealth managers who seek exposure to the financial sector outside of the U.S., there is a new ETF that could merit a closer look. It’s based on the Dow Jones Emerging Markets Financial Titans 30 Index. ...

Hedge fund managers who want to invest in distressed debt in Asia can get some help in the form of a new “strategic” partnership between two hedge fund service providers. ...

A bond research portal is the newest addition to MarketScope Advisor, part of Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Equity Research services....

A new fund offered by Van Eck Global gives investors the opportunity to explore one of the world’s youngest and most dynamic economies—Vietnam—by investing in the U.S.-based ETF....

(SIFMA) survey projects net treasury issuance to continue to rise in the third quarter of 2009, from second-quarter levels, but it’s not projected to hit a level as high as the $527 billion seen in the third quarter of 2008. ...

Vanguard will be adding seven new bond index funds and ETFS to its range of actively managed funds. ...

Black Diamond’s performance reporting solution will give wealth managers who are Pershing customers tools to track their clients’ investment portfolios more effectively. ...

Schwab Charitable expands the investment choices for its donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts and adds asset allocation tools. The result: open architecture....

AlphaSimplex Group’s Andrew Lo launches a multi-strategy, absolute-return fund: Natixis ASG Diversifying Strategies Fund (DSFAX)....

: Putnam Funds proposes comprehensive changes to performance and management fees, and fund family breakpoints, pending shareholder approval later this year....