This year, fundsters read up on the fate of the Hartford, actions of the SEC, and the movement of top executives. These are the top-read MFWire stories of 2012:

1) June 15 -- "SEC Sends Northern Lights a Wells Notice"
The letter means that SEC staff are recommending that the SEC take action against the series trust.

2) March 21 -- "Hartford's Keeping its Mutual Funds"
The financial services giant is splitting, but its keeping three core business lines, including its mutual fund unit.

3) August 28 -- "Nick Calamos Has Three Weeks Left as Co-CIO"
The president and co-CIO will leave his day-to-day duties behind by the middle of September.

4) April 18 -- "Three Guggenheim Chiefs Leave and Two Rise"
The asset management arm of the private equity firm says goodbye to three of its own while appointing two others.

5) April 25 -- "Ned Johnson Made Steve Jobs Look Like He Was Asleep"
The bold-faced names of Boston turned out to honor Fidelity builder Ned Johnson last night.

6) February 21 -- "Aster Dies"
An accident killed the fund company executive last week.

7) June 21 -- "A Top Templeton PM Dies"
Sir John Templeton's third investment professional passed away earlier this week.

8) March 9 -- "Walt Brings One of Bob's Boys to Schwab"
A top fundster will take over the retail branch network for the brokerage giant.

9) June 4 -- "Did Pimco Say "No Vacays" and Tank the Stock Market?"
Some hedge funds pros and a guy from Minyanville are tweeting about what they heard at lunch on Friday.

10) February 14 -- "Three Firms Gobbled Half of Inflows in January"
Vanguard dominated net long-term mutual fund inflows last month. 

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