Exchange-traded products gathered net new assets of $67.3bn during the first quarter of 2012, making it the best start to the year ever for the industry.

Markets moved modestly higher last week, which helped stocks to return one of the strongest first quarters in history.

BlackRock has called on the European markets authority to improve the way exchange-traded products are labelled, including identifying synthetics, and increase transparency over conflicts of interest.

GAME Group administrators have announced 333 of its UK shops that are still open have been sold to private investment firm OpCapita.

Royal London Asset Management's Martin Cholwill is backing Hargreaves Lansdown in the view worries over impact of RDR on the firm are overdone.

US real GDP increased at an annual rate of 3% in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the third and final estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

PIMCO's Bill Gross has urged investors to stage a Steve McQueen-style 'Great Escape' from today's 'repressed' environment for returns.

J.P. Morgan's head of intermediary sales, Jasper Berens, has been appointed head of UK retail in a restructure of the group's retail arm.

British banks do not have enough capital to ensure they surivive if there is another crisis, the Bank of England has said.

Barclays has launched an investment strategy to give investors exposure to the Vix volatility index.