Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank hired employees faster than it expanded the compensation pool last year, leading to a drop in average pay per worker.

Funds set aside to reward traders, deal makers and the unit’s other personnel increased 4 percent to $9.73 billion, or an average of $369,651 for each of the 26,314 workers, the company said today in an earnings supplement. That’s 2.4 percent less than the average of $378,600 a year earlier, when 24,654 people worked there. Compensation amounted to 37 percent of revenue last year, up from 33 percent in 2009.

Everybody wants to be healthier and many of us want to be wealthier, but it's just not that easy.

Most of us are creatures of habit and discover that making permanent changes in behavior is surprisingly difficult. However, discipline and a simple set of New Year's investment resolutions can help get you on the right track in 2011.

For those of us who believe in making and keeping the promises we make to ourselves, consider making resolutions based on the following 10 tips.

Do not confuse entertainment with advice: The financial media is in the entertainment business, and their messages can compromise a long-term focus and discipline, leading investors to make poor investment decisions.

Stop searching for tomorrow's star money manager: Capitalism should be the guide, because with capitalism, there is a positive expected return on capital, and it is there for the taking. Success does not mean someone else has to fail.

Jan. 13 – In a statement published on January 12, the Shanghai government announced the launch of a pilot scheme titled the Qualified Foreign Limited Partner program which will allow foreign private equity firms to directly invest in the nation.

According to a joint statement issued by the Shanghai Finance Office, the Shanghai Ministry of Commerce, and the Shanghai Administration of Industry and Commerce, the scheme aims to “attract quality, long-term overseas capital, boost domestic investment, and would promote the development of a local private equity market.”

Actively-managed ETFs have so far failed to attract significant attention from investors. This may be about to change, as Barron's reports that many new active ETFs will join the market in 2011. A growing number of active choices on the market may serve to attract more investors to the investment group.

While the ETF market reached a new high of $1 trillion in invested funds in 2010, the vast majority of those assets are invested in passive index ETFs. The relatively new actively managed ETFs comprised only $3 billion of total assets in the ETF market.

For actively managed funds, a track history of good performance is important to attract investors. All of market's 33 existing actively managed ETFs were launched within the past two years, after the SEC approved the creation of these funds. The first actively managed funds (launched in early 2008) will complete their third year of performance history in 2011. This may be a turning point for adding new investors who were hesitant to buy actively managed funds before their ability to outperform the market was tested.