News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Burke Intros Her $590B-AUM AM's 1st ETF Trio
The folks at a PE-backed fund firm in the Southeast enter ETF space today with three launches. Watch for three more in early 2025, too...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
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Iwry, Borzi, and a Late Plan Sponsor Win In D.C., But ...
Only one of the three winners was able to attend the ceremony in person today, though...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
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As Voya Closes In, Kofkoff Transitions to a New Role
Update | A 10-year OneAmerica veteran is on the rise, even as the provider's parent is preparing to sell the recordkeeper, as planned...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
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Reader Rating: 5
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What's Next For an 11-Year Insti DC I-O Chief?
Word is that this senior leader is moving on from a publicly traded asset manager after more than a decade...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
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It's Paul! Pan and WSJ Cheer
Yesterday U.S. President-elect Donald Trump officially revealed his choice for taking over the top mutual fund industry regulator next year...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
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Albergo Oversees the New IRALogix Team-Up
A CEO talks about his new COO and reflects on the outgoing COO's legacy...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
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Newfound and Tidal Team For a 3rd ETF
The new fund stacks exposure to bonds and stocks...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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Henon Hires a Membership Consultant For RAC
The trade group's new hire is a retirement plan industry sales vet...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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At a 5,400-Employee RKer, a C-Suiter Will Pass the Reins In 2024
A new CFO will take over next month, after another big leadership change last summer...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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Reader Rating: 4.76
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A 39,000-Participant Program Reups
Its relationship with its recordkeeper spans more than 14 years. ..
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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Two of the Best Fund Firms For Parents In 2023
A workplace culture specialist's team recognizes 70 large employers and 30 smaller ones...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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A New Hawkeye State PPP Is Coming
The new PEP player has not revealed information about any planned PEP offerings...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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An ETF Chief Departs From a $196B-AUS Firm
The exec spent five years with the fund firm...
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Monday, December 5, 2022
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There Are 21 New Nominees Today. Vote Now!
We need your help! The 401kWire team is once again working on a list of the Most Influential People In Defined Contribution...
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Monday, December 5, 2022
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Reader Rating: 2
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Hiring, an Aggregator Builds a Concierge Model
An insurance brokerage's retirement services team welcomes a provider-vet-turned-KPA in the Midwest...
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Monday, December 5, 2022
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401k Trading Sextupled In November
Participants favored large cap stock funds, bond funds, and money market funds last month, according to a recordkeeper's latest data...
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Monday, December 5, 2022
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Week In Preview, December 5 - December 11
This week, the teams at ASPPA, DCIIA, Faegre Drinker, and WIPN will host events...
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Monday, December 5, 2022
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Week In Preview, December 5 - December 11
This week, the teams at Expect Miracles, IMEA, MFDF, MMI, SEC, VanEck, and WE are hosting events...
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Monday, December 5, 2022
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Five Ways to Take White Label Products Up a Notch
The team at a big DC provider offers ideas for building the next generation of customized and bespoke investment products for retirement plans...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
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From MF RIA Channel Chief to Family Office Services
A Lone Star State fundster moved to the Boston Behemoth a few months ago...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
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Pat Murphy Sees Changing Dynamics Around Stable Value
The John Hancock Retirement chief talks about the provider's new investment offering and hints at what might come next...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
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Reader Rating: 3
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Hub Buys a 74-Year-Old Shop With a KPA Arm
The private equity-backed insurance brokerage acquires again, this time in the Great Plains...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
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Reader Rating: 5
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Rob Goldman Promotes a 17-Year Transamerica Vet
A familiar face fills shoes vacated earlier this year when Goldman was promoted...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
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What a Fin Wellness Entrepreneur Looks For In 401k Allies
A provider veteran now leads the firm's new enterprise arm...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
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A Multinational AM's Parent Trims Five Percent
The publicly traded firm's team releases their fiscal 2019 earnings...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
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Will This Large-Market RKer IPO Next Year?
An initial public offering of a retirement plan and healthcare benefits administrator to large and jumbo plan sponsors reportedly could come in the first half of 2019...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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Targeting SARPs, a Custody Titan Teams Up
Next up, the allies will go after government DC plans and the RIA 401(k) marketplace...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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What Do FAs Want In an ESG Fund?
New research sheds light on financial advisors' perspectives on ESG and SRI investing...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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Milliman Lands a $150MM Oregon Plan
The plan sponsor, with about 4,300 participants, previously recordkept the plan internally...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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BB&T Agrees to a Schlichter Settlement
The two parties submitted the settlement for approval last week...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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Spark Wants Your Help Tackling Privacy Issues
The SPARK advisory board requests the formation of a new committee on privacy...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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Reader Rating: 5
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The World's Fifth Most Powerful Woman Runs a Fund Firm
The 33rd most powerful woman, according to a new list, is another asset management chief...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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InspiraFS Switches Hands
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based rollover IRA specialist has been acquired with $500 million in assets under administration...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
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Beware Fee Cuts Beyond the Point of Deal Viability
An acquisitive fundster leading a publicly traded company sees lots more industry M&A, but he worries that the industry's reaction to Vanguardization has gone too far and may stifle deals...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
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Ackerley Shares BlackRock's Next DC Step: Auto-Retirement
The DC I-O team at the world's largest asset manager is trying to bring auto-plan ease to the 401(k) decumulation.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
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For Deutsche AM, It's Back to the Future
Deutsche Bank is bringing back an old brand as it prepares to IPO its asset management arm as early as the first half of next year...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence Meets Retirement Plan Advising
The recent partnership between Barnum Financial Group and Dream Forward highlight what could be the next big trend in the 401(k) industry...
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Monday, December 5, 2016
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Reader Rating: 2
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LPL Chief Mark Casady Set to Retire
LPL announced Mark Casady's retirement, effective at the beginning of next year...
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Monday, December 5, 2016
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The Next Gig for the Week of December 5, 2016
The latest jobs available in the industry!..
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Monday, December 5, 2016
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TIAA CEO Speaks on U.S. Retirement Crisis
Ron Pressman, head of institutional financial services, sat down with 401kWire to touch on a handful of retirement-related topics. ..
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Monday, December 5, 2016
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LPL's Mark Casady to Retire as CEO
The CEO of the largest independent broker-dealer is stepping down...
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Monday, December 5, 2016
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The Pioneer Bidding Narrows ... to One
Even as Italian voters rejected a constitutional reform referendum, UniCredit has publicly revealed exclusive negotiations with just one contender in the sale of Pioneer...
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Monday, December 5, 2016
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Fundsters, Talk to This Barclays Analyst
The British bank restarts its asset manager coverage, with a new chief...
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Friday, December 5, 2014
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McCulloch Expands TCW's Retail Reach
The PE-backed mutual fund shop welcomes a private client services sales exec and searches for more...
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Friday, December 5, 2014
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NFP Acquires a Texas KPA Shop
...and recruited a new 401(k) plan advisor (KPA) to the collaborative. ..
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Friday, December 5, 2014
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Nationwide's Frustaglio Creates a New Territory and Hires Two
Joe Frustaglio, vice president of private-sector retirement plan sales for Nationwide, just appointed two new wholesalers to the collaborative...
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Friday, December 5, 2014
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Reader Rating: 5
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401k and IRA Penetration Has Fallen Since 2001
An study issued by EBRI shows that a percentage of all families with a 401(k) or an IRA decreased from 52.8 percent in 2001 to 48.2 percent in 2013…..
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Friday, December 5, 2014
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Reader Rating: 4
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Wamco Mourns an Ex-CEO
He led the bond fund shop for 16 years and through its sale to Legg Mason...
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Friday, December 5, 2014
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Reader Rating: 2
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WSJ Likes Baron's $8B Growth
The national newspaper highlights the success of a mutual fund PMed by Ron Baron himself...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall
A new partnership aims to turns 401k advisors' gaze inward...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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The Next Lebowitz? Borzi's New COO Talks Shop With 401kWire
...And Borzi chimes in, too. ..
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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After Buying a Client, an Ex-Subadvisor Hires a Sales and Marketing Chief
Firm adopts four funds and hires honcho with 14-years of sales experience...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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New Year, Same 5500 … For 401ks At Least
The labor department discloses the latest version of the form...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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When RIAs Pick Funds, Investing Transparency is King
That's the key takeaway from survey results just released by Aberdeen Asset Management...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Crying Foul Over "Excessive Mutual Fund Switches" and More, Finra Orders a B-D to Return More than $700K
The regulatory agency also attacked the Peach State B-D over its use of leveraged and inverse ETFs...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Panagakis Gains TIAA-CREF Funds Access to Three Key Platforms
Updated | The mutual fund arm of the higher education retirement plan specialists gains access to a wirehouse and its online brokerage sibling, as well as an indie B-D...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Fido Cuts Fees for Part of Its TDF Lineup
Fidelity lowered the fees for its Fidelity Freedom Index Funds, making them lower-cost than Vanguard's TDFs. ..
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Reader Rating: 5
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Blackrock's Fink Talks Retirement Mess and the Curse of Longevity
The Wall Street Journal reports on the Blackrock CEO's negative views of the current retirement system. ..
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Fido Slashes FundsNetwork Commissions On All But Five Shop's Funds
RIABiz picks up on the changes, which affect both the institutional platform used by RIAs and the retail channel...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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The WSJ Considers the Fuss About 401k Fees
The change in fees may be minor, but with sponsors and participants already scrutinizing fees, they won't go unnoticed...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Reader Rating: 1
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Only Two CEOs in the Country Earn More Than This Fundster
TIME highlights the $69 million that one top mutual fund executive is paid...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Reader Rating: 5
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Single State Muni-Fundsters' Quirks Catch WSJ's Attention
The national paper highlights single-state municipal bond mutual funds' investments in Puerto Rican debt...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
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A 401k Survey Shows Employees Are Still Worried
Percentage believing they are financial ready for retirement is down...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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SEC Loses Two Top Leaders
Both were instrumental in Dodd-Frank reforms...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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A DC I-O Hunts for Three Sales People
DC specialists wanted for Boston, Chicago and Orange County...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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New York Life Finds More Data Supporting Auto-Enroll
Not only does it increase participation, it increases deferrals...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Reader Rating: 1
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Managers Is Looking for Wholesalers
Firm wants sales people for RIA and B-D channels...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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T. Rowe Unveils an Ultra Short-Term Bond Strategy
The firm is pushing further into money market-like products.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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The Montage Family Grows
Firm adopts an asset manager and a fund...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Cammack LaRhette Wins Over a USI Retirement Exec
Updated | A veteran industry consultant in the Big Apple switches shops...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Reader Rating: 3
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Fink Is "Not Leaving This Job"
The BlackRock chief insists that his supposed candidacy for a top government post is "like a myth."..
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Institutional Investors Pull $887MM from a Vanguard ETF
A Vanguard fund that will switch from MSCI to FTSE gets a big redemption...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Bill Gross Invokes John Lennon
The Pimco boss' monthly investment outlook is in, and he strikes for the heart with a Beatles reference...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Reader Rating: 5
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An NH Firm Will Pay $1.8M in An ETF Case
Lawyers say Finra case is first tied to leveraged and inverse ETFs. More likely to come...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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AdvisorShares Forges Four ETFs
Three will provide precious metals exposure in foreign currencies...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Van Eck Takes Over Indexes
The exchange-traded mutual fund player launches a subsidiary to run some of its own indexes...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Grant Park Funds is Bullish on Alts
The firm's president says this the best environment he's seen for alternative mutual funds in the last 20 years...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Schwab's New Platforms Arrive Next Year
The brokerage giant continues work on its new approach to retirement plans...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Reader Rating: 2.67
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A Texas 403b Specialist Does Its 21st Deal
A Texas benefits firm sells to a growing national network...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Diversified Baptizes a Health Provider's Plans
A $143 million plan blesses Diversified's services...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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NYLIM Revamps its Sponsor, Advisor Sites
It's a refined look into participants' behavior patterns...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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A Commonwealth Shop Tells CPAs About 401ks
A Midwestern advisor releases another free guide...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Reader Rating: 1
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Fido Small Cap Stock Gets A New Skipper
There's a new skipper at the helm of Fidelity's $3.1 billion Small Cap Stock Fund.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Will PM Teams Outshine Stars?
A team-managed approach seems to be the new strategy for fund companies. Does this mean they're saying goodbye to star managers?..
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Reader Rating: 4
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Morningstar's "Winners" are Losing
Bill Gross and Bruce Berkowitz sure don't look like winners these days...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Reader Rating: 5
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Will ETFs Feed Fidelity's Desire to Master all Spaces?
Eight years after filing for its first exchange-traded mutual fund, the Boston Behemoth files to launch more...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Neuberger Puts an Analyst on Leave
He's being investigated for his ties to an insider trading probe by the fibbies...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Going Around Again, Direxion Alters its ETF Course
The failure of Direxion's first non-leveraged ETF to take flight is not stopping Andy O'Rourke from exploring alternatives in the space...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Confused by the 403b Regs? Listen in Next Week
An industry trade group unveils the latest version of its best practices guide for the non-profit DC sector while preparing a webcast for next week...
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Friday, December 5, 2008
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Midwestern Advisory Firm to Sponsors: Call Our Hotline!
An NRP member unveils a phone number and email address that employers can reach out to with questions related to retirement plans...
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Friday, December 5, 2008
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Legg Enacts an 8 Percent Solution
The Maryland-based asset manager is trimming another 200 jobs immediately. The move follows a smaller layoff in October. ..
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Friday, December 5, 2008
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EPIC Completes its Online Makover
The upstate New York-based full-service provider revamps its website to provide new content for visitors...
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Friday, December 5, 2008
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The Online Spitzer Comeback?
The fund industry's least favorite New York politician takes a stab at rising from the ashes into a new position as a columnist...
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Friday, December 5, 2008
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The Reserve's "Ingenious" Lawsuit Freezer
The Times takes a look at the distribution plan unveiled by the Manhattan money manager...
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Friday, December 5, 2008
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Bain-Hellman Walk with $67 Million
The WSJ reports that the two private equity firms will walk away from Neuberger with some cash. ..
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Friday, December 5, 2008
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Fido Names Shared Services President
Fidelity has hired Marvin Adams to be the president of Fidelity Shared Services...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Forward Makes Two New SMA Hires
Forward Management has made two new hires on the SMA side...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Managed Account Firm Names New Sales and Marketing Chief
The Midwest-based managed account provider has tapped one of its own to fill the post...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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SSgA Falls from FRC's Top Selling Funds List
State Street Global Advisors has dropped off FRC's list of the best selling fund groups after two months in the top two...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.4
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Ascensus Targets the Micro Market
The outsourced recordkeeper formerly known as Bisys Retirement Services has put together a product aimed at firms with 15 or less employees...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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TradeKing Offers Access to Portfolio Management Capabilities from Portfolio Director
The online broker now offers its clients access to portfolio management capabilities from Portfolio Director...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Cuomo Targets Wall Street Underwriting Practices in a Spitzeresque Turn
Cuomo has reportedly sent out broadly written subpoenas to Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and Deutsche Bank...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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AIM Intros Program That Aids Advisors in 401k Market Strategy
AIM Investments is launching a new marketing program for financial advisors to learn about and develop a business strategy for the 401k marketplace...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Ex-Analysts Head to Jail After Insider Trading Pleas
Two ex-analysts are headed to jail after being convicted of insider trading...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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MassMutual to Sponsor a PBS Docu on Retirement
The Springfield, Massachusetts-based provider has signed on as the exclusive national sponsor of a PBS documentary set to air in the spring...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Asset Manager Offers Advisors 'Product-Neutral' Fee Training
The new program focuses on teaching intermediaries how to deal with plan fees.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Car Dealer Goes with New Provider
A New England firm has tapped a provider for its $35-million plan...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Tar Heel Education Specialists Fire Up New Facility and Look to Grow in '08
The firm opens a new building with over 3,000 square feet of space. Watch for new hires and products in the new year...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Citi Reportedly Strikes Out in Bid to Woo Deutsche CEO
Deutsche Bank AG chief executive officer Josef Ackermann has reportedly turned down the top job at Citigroup...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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529s Add More Conservative Options
Mutual funds are getting more conservative company in the investment menus of 529s...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Fund Managers Sense China is About to Bubble Over
Sensing that China may burst its bubble sooner rather than later, fund managers are beginning to pull money out of that market...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Judge Tosses Solomon Smith Barney Fee Suit
A judge has dismissed an derivative lawsuit against the distributors and advisors of nine Salomon Smith Barney...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.67
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SEC Taps New Inspector General
The SEC has named David Kotz as its new inspector general...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.67
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7-Eleven Renews Contract With Administrator
The convenience store chain will continue its relationship with its benefits administrator...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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LPL Gets Into Retirement ... Finally
The largest independent BD promotes one of its executives to be in charge of its new retirement services unit after searching for months...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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Reader Rating: 3
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Total Benefit Communications Founder Ready for Next Step
Anne Heape McKillips is no longer a full-time employee at Bisys, which acquired her firm early this year...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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A Provider Dips its First Toe Into the Acquisition Game
A succesful Empire State-based plan provider may be shifting its strategy as it buys a retirement plan administrator and recordkeeper...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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Reader Rating: 3
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Chuck Schwab Says a 401k Acquisition is a Possibility
Chuck Schwab says that the capital raised by the sale of its U.S. Trust private banking arm could flow towards acquisition deals and the 401(k) space...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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Reader Rating: 3.67
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Palmetto State Hospital To Freeze Pension Plan
The medical center will instead beef up its 403(b) plan...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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NRP Affiliate Set to Grow in the Sun
Actuarial specialists moonlighting as retirement plan consultants prepare to double their DB/DC team.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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Reader Rating: 1.5
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Data Points to an Opportunity with Hispanics
With the 401k market maturing, plan providers must ensure that they are maximizing plan usage. One group that has been relatively overlooked is one group of hispanics...
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Monday, December 5, 2005
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Atlanta Cable Maker Hires CitiStreet
The plan sponsor taps the plan provider to oversee the merging of three plans into two...
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Monday, December 5, 2005
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M&I Mulls 401k Enhancement for New Year
The plan provider is working on offering auto-plan features to plan sponsors in 2006.
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Monday, December 5, 2005
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Mutual Fund Shares Post Gains
Is the future of the fund industry still rosy? Neither the mutual fund scandals of the past two years nor the maturity of have stopped investors from bidding up the stocks of mutual fund firms...
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Monday, December 5, 2005
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ProFunds Unveils Account Management Tool
ProFund Advisors has introduced a proprietary online system that promises to spare financial professionals the complexities associated with controlling multiple ProFunds accounts...
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Monday, December 5, 2005
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Sponsors Deliver Christmas Gifts as Search Activity Jumps
2003 is shaping up to be the most active year for searches this century. It will likely be even better than 1999...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Reader Rating: 4
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Citi Pension Head to Retire
The head of the bank pension investment arm is retiring at end of December...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Reader Rating: 2
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NASD Takes Action Against Piper Jaffray Broker
The agency says broker improperly advised his clients...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Reader Rating: 5
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Janus Announces New Managers
The company promotes from within and says the fund probe did not influence its decisions...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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What Does A Sale by Strong Mean to 401k Clients?
The quick answer is that no one knows. Yet, it is possible to speculate about the impact of the possible sale...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Reader Rating: 1
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401k Searches Reported This Week
INVESCO is put under a review, Putnam set to lose more clients and Fidelity snags a pension plan...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Goldschmid Speaks Out On The Future Of Funds
The SEC commissioner shares his own thoughts on the scandals and needed reforms with the legal eagles of the fund industry...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Pru Branch Managers Say Their Actions Were Legitimate
In responses to regulators, two managers say their actions were approved by senior management...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Reader Rating: 5
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Massachusetts Reviewing Amvescap
The state pension fund may be making a managerial change because of the recent charges against Invesco...
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Bowles Will Not be Next SEC Chief
While the SEC Commissioners prepare to vote on the proxy disclosure rule the White House continues to make its list of possible chairs and check it twice...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Fund Firm Incents Advisors
For the first time since the mini-Bear this Fall a fund shop it dangling extra incentives for advisors to sell its funds...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Reader Rating: 2.75
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Scudder Exec Jumps to State Street
The operations executive has moved to a cross-town rival...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Reader Rating: 4
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AXA Rosenberg Seals Outsourcing Deal
The firm announces its provider for admin, TA, compliance and other back office services...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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e401k Appoints a VC-Backed CEO
The venture-backed firm has its third CEO in the past month as the e401k segment continues to restructure...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Survey Shows Sponsors Want Advice
Large plan sponsors also want to cut back on the amount of company stock in their plans, according to the annual Hewitt survey...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Big Four Firm Rolls Out Advice
The newest advice tool for employers is now ready for distribution. The effort is a joint product between a big four firm and an eBroker...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Wells Fargo Offers Lump Sum Service
The bank is offering the new Web-based tool for processing plan distributions to its clients...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Online Benefits Offers SPD Tool
The firm targeting companies in the mid-sized market with its SPD creation tool...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Morningstar Expands Tie to AOL
A new agreement extends the reach of ClearFuture to tens of millions of AOL members...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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The 401(k) Company Wins Two New Mandates
The Lone Star recordkeeper recently landed a combined $87 million in new 401k business...
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Fido Lands $400 Million Ex-MetLife Plan
A former MetLife client chooses Fidelity rather than Hewitt Associates as its successor provider...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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Jones & Babson Redesign
The firm recreates its advisor-only website...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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Separate Accounts Now Home for ETFs
A financial services firm will be using ETFs as one of the offerings in its separate accounts program...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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Enron Losses Spark Bill
The collapse of the Enron 401k plan is triggering reactions in Washington and Massachusetts...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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Senator Blasts Enron
Boxer Strikes ... Some Enron Humor ... Deutsche Bank Plans Cuts ... ICMA Renames Fund...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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Senator Blasts Enron
Boxer Strikes ... Some Enron Humor ... Deutsche Bank Plans Cuts ... ICMA Renames Fund...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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Rising Through the Ranks
There is a new top executive for institutional sales at Invesco...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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Web Site Targets TPA's
Federated Investors is planning to build an referral network for third-party administrators...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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Munder Eyes Jumbo Plans
The firm has hired a new marketer for the jumbo plan market from Mercer...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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Scudder Weisel Is the Newest Fund Complex
As expected, the two firms announced their awaited joint venture to bring new era funds to high-net-worth investors...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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Fifty One Funds Renewed!
Bank One re-ups with BISYS for another four years. ..
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Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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Women-Owned Fund Firm Enters the Fray
San Francisco-based Kit Cole is seeking to turn its rare women management team to its advantage with a new fund...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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California Bank is Back In the Game
The Los Angeles-based regional bank has partnered with Nationwide to create a small business program...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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December 5, 2000
DoL Fee Squeeze Widens ... Royce Mulls Over Sale ... Putnam Tech Fund's Rise and Fall ... Fund Outflows Slow...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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December 5, 2000
Royce Mulls Over Sale ... Scudder and Weisel Expected to Form Venture ... Women on the Rise at Funds ... Kim Goodwin's Rise ... Putnam Tech Fund's Rise and Fall ... Fund Outflows Slow.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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