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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Morris Targets Ultrashort TIPS, And ...
The folks at a $16B-AUMA AM are rolling out another ETF and prepping another four...
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Monday, March 3, 2025
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TRPC Launches a 403b Product
The new offering from the USRBP shop debuted in January...
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Monday, March 3, 2025
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Kaduson Brings a Fellow PwC Vet to His C-Suite
The new Voya workplace solutions chief is also making a couple other key hires...
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Monday, March 3, 2025
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Hest Appoints Three Key Strongpoint Leaders
One new hire and two freshly promoted executives are all taking on newly created roles at the Midwestern TPA acquirer...
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Monday, March 3, 2025
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Week In Preview March 3 - 9
This week, the teams at ERIC, NAPA, P&I, Spark, WIPN, and WP&BC are hosting events...
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Monday, March 3, 2025
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Week In Preview March 3 - 9
This week, the teams at Citywire, IDC, IMEA, MFDF, Nicsa, T3, and WE are hosting events...
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Monday, March 3, 2025
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Booyah! New ETFs Bet On and Against Cramer
A fund firm debuts a pair of mutual funds based on the TV investor's picks...
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Friday, March 3, 2023
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Why an Ally to 300 Firms Teamed With Vestwell
A clearing and custody firm's president talks about their new exclusive partnership in the retirement plan space...
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Friday, March 3, 2023
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A Chi-Town TPA Vet Joins Vestwell
The new hire now serves as VP of TPA partnerships at the Gotham RKer...
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Friday, March 3, 2023
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Darian Hires In Florida
A PCF alumnus joins the team at Dick Darian's boutique M&A shop...
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Friday, March 3, 2023
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Long-Term Outflows Jump to $16B, But ...
The Refinitiv Lipper folks reveal the latest weekly U.S. flows data...
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Friday, March 3, 2023
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A Twenty-Year Fidelity Vet Picks Up a DC I-O Role
The executive now serves in a DC I-O role with a multi-manager fund firm...
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Friday, March 3, 2023
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A $2.7T-AUM Titan Debuts Its First ETFs
Last month, the privately held mutual fund titan's team rolled out its first six ETFs, all actively managed...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
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Hub Teams Up For Income In AMAs
Folks at the PE-backed KPA aggregator are preparing to add the service to MEP next month...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
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What's Next After the Transamerica-TAG Deal?
Updated | A top Transamerica executive talks about the recent acquisition...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
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The OneAmerica Team Honors Two RS Specialists
One of the winners works in key accounts, while the other is a product consultant...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
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Mister Market Is Hitting Fund Firms Harder In 2022, But ...
All 17 publicly traded U.S. mutual fund firms tracked by MFWire have seen their share prices climb by well more than 10 percent since the end of 2019, and only one saw its share price fall last year...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
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A Bipartisan House Duo Addresses QDIAs
Defined contribution industry insiders weigh in on new DC-related legislation on Capitol Hill...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
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Hennessy Passes a 2nd Hat: CIO
The fundster entrepreneur promotes an eight-year company veteran to take on a key role...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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Six Years In, a Nationwide Exec Takes Over a New Team
They will focus on DC plans with more than $25MM in assets...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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Scanlon Shares Equitable's New DC Vision
More than half a dozen other firms are teaming up with the provider on a new platform...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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Lockton's Popp Finds a Managed Account Ally
The insurance brokerage's KPA arm teams up to offer its own AMAs...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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Morgan Stanley and Victory Seal Deals
An investment bank with an asset management and a publicly traded multiboutique each closed on acquisitions earlier this week...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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The 401k Plan Sponsor Gender Gap
New research suggests that men and women handle plans differently, on average...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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20 Fundsters and Allies Win Big In Florida
The winners were lauded last week at an industry trade group's conference in Fort Lauderdale...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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Stay Tuned For New 401k Payroll Research
A trade group will release a new report in June...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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How Are Participants and Sponsors Handling This Rough Market?
Recordkeepers say participant calls and web activity are spiking...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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In Arizona, a $450MM Plan Switches to Voya
The plan sponsor is a retailer and a subsidiary of a publicly traded multinational...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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WSJ Versus Fink
The national business newspaper is attacking the BlackRock chief's ESG push...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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An MA DC Vet Flies to PlanPilot
The new hire previously worked with a Massachusetts advisory shop and with TIAA...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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Empower Gives a Fiduciary Push to Advisors
Whether that push becomes a shove depends upon whether other rkers follow. ..
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Friday, March 3, 2017
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The New Fund Fuss - March 3, 2017
The latest funds about to make their grand debut! ..
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Friday, March 3, 2017
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A 16-Year Goldman Due Diligence Vet Exits
A Goldman gatekeeper has left the firm...
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Friday, March 3, 2017
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Another Law Firm Steps Into Tax Compliance Services
In a response to the discontinuation of the IRS determination letter program, law firms are offering compliance services to individually-designed plan sponsors. ..
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Friday, March 3, 2017
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2016: The Beginning of the End?
2016 was not kind to the mutual fund...
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Friday, March 3, 2017
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A RidgeWorth DC I-O Exec Lands at T. Rowe Price
The former managing director and national DC I-O sales manager with RidgeWorth Investments has joined T. Rowe Price. ..
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Friday, March 3, 2017
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This Exec Might Buy Your Shop and Bolt It On to a British Giant
A multinational insurer just hired a Goldman alum as M&A chief. Watch for him to do asset management deals here in the U.S...
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Friday, March 3, 2017
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Segmenting Fosters an Owner's Mindset
A veteran KPA in the Midwest lays out his vision for encouraging teamwork, with coworkers and with allies...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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Allianz's Thompson Adds Another Hat
The New York-based mutual fund shop's national accounts chief expands her duties...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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KPA Profile: Kelli Davis
This KPA is worried about regulations affecting her future ability to educate clients. ..
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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Procter & Gamble's $17B Plan Moves
Procter and Gamble has chosen a new recordkeeper. ..
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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A SunGard Alum Joins AdvisorTrust As COO
A former SunGard VP joins AdvisorTrust as chief operating officer...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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Magoon Amplifies His ETF Biz
The former Claymore president starts his own ETF shop, complete with its own affiliate for offering strategic help to other ETF players...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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As a Cali Shop Sells, Its DC I-O Chief Departs
Word is that the exec is heading east...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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Combine Student Loan Repayments with 401k Contributions
A genius comes to the 401(k) industry to help employees secure their nest egg and double down on student loans...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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Schroders' Dasher Will Report to a New Chief
The asset manager's global CEO will step down next month, to be succeeded from within...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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Lincoln's Cornelio Retires
Chuck Cornelio is set to retire as president this April. ..
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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More Lawyers Circle Virtus
Last week, in the wake of the F-Squared scandal, two law firms filed a class-action lawsuit against Virtus. Now a third has started its own investigation...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Matrix Moves Upmarket
Last month Broadridge unveiled a trustodian deal that, when closed, will create a $290-billion giant in the business. Here's what the Broadridge subsidiary's chiefs have to say about the deal...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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M* Anoints HelloWallet's Chief, Wins a Big Financial Wellness Client
Matt Fellowes takes on a brand new role at the mutual fund ratings giant, even as his unit starts working with a large employer...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Daly Officially Joins Lincoln
As previously reported, the Pru veteran is moving to John Morabito's team...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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CBIZ Buys a PA TPA
The acquiree has 13 employees, and the buyer expects to add about $4.2 million in annual revenue thanks to the deal...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Four KPAs Close In On NAPA's Big Award
The trade group just named the finalists for the 401(k) Advisor Leadership Award...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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A $3B 403b Goes to Fido
The move means that three universities in the Southwest will be working with the Boston Behemoth...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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86 Percent of Americans See a Looming Retirement Crisis
And nearly 75 percent of Americans are concerned about their ability to achieve a secure retirement, according to a new report that was issued today...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Vanderbilt Consolidates With a Single RKer
An East Coast provider wins the $3.4B plan...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Notre Dame Picks an RKer
The Midwestern university now has a sole provider for its $1.3B plan...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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ETF Deja Vu All Over Again
A big mutual fund shop is poised to return to the ETF business, 13 years after leaving it...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Pru Honchos Seek Peers in Latest Hiring Push
Fund giant unveils a number of fund positions...
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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Principal Locks In a $300MM 401k
A Kansas City-based insurance brokerage's recordkeeper change is part of a wider plan-design overhaul. ..
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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A Construction Exec Pleads Guilty to 401k Theft
The president and owner of Corinthian Custom Homes, Inc. stole participant contributions between 2006 and 2007 for his personal use...
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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Are Your Participants On Track? BPAS Investigates
Updated | The Upstate New York, open-architecture RKer unveils a new tool for its plan sponsors and intermediary partners...
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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What Will Be Gross' Next Act?
The ongoing drama at Pimco recently has landed Bill Gross in the heart of a media storm. It'll be a tough March for him deciding whether he needs to navigate it...
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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A Returning 401k Entrepreneur Teams Up With Lincoln Trust
Tom Gonnella and his team seal a strategic partnership with a new shop led by another 401k vet in Denver...
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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401(k) Plans: Epic Fail?
Four retirement bigwigs talk about the failures and successes of the system at the ASPPA/NAPA Summit...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
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Graff: We're Not Out of the Woods Yet
The ASPPA and NAPA chief brings a key Congressional staffer to Sin City...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
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The ASPPA 401k Summit: the End of an Era and the Beginning of Another
ASPPA and NAPA kick off their giant 2013 conference in Sin City...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
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Great West Snags a Hancock Wholesaler
A Hancock wholesaler jumps ship to Great West...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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The Top Exec at a Big Five Plan Provider is Leaving
The exec is leaving the top job at the plan provider at the end of the month...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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James Plans to Shutter its Market Neutral Fund
The Ohio-based mutual fund firm plans liquidate the fund by end-June...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Pimco Continues its Hiring Spree
Pimco has seven new hires...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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OneAmerica Debuts its MEP Product
Months after ending its MEP JV with TAG Resoruces, OneAmerica has launched its own product...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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AIG Hires an Exec from Gamco
One of the key execs on Mario Gabelli's team has moved on to the insurer...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Top Advisor: Stephanie Gallegos
Thorbahn (NFP)..
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Top Advisor: Michael Kozemchak
Institutional Investment Consulting (NRP/LPL)..
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Top Advisor: Stephen Brown
Merrill Lynch..
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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RPAG Make Its First Acquisition
Updated | The network of retirement plan advisors buys an industry data specialist...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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GSAM's Distribution Chief Departs
The Goldman Sachs veteran is departing the firm next month...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Reish and Reicher Dissolves
Fred Reish and his colleagues are parting ways, but his ERISA employment attorney team is staying together...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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WSJ Talks to a Commodity Stock Picker
A Fidelity PM offers a different take on commodities investing...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Jackson Joins the Artio Board
The ex-American Century executive is now part of Artio Global Investors' board of directors...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Ex-MSSB Exec is Heading to Fidelity
The exec will become national sales manager of the unit that distributes Fidelity's funds and 401k products through intermediaries...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Johnston's New Venture Aims to Help Firms Navigate the Social Media Landscape
Bruce Johnston launches Advisolocity, which offers marketing communications, e-marketing and sales support to financial services firms...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Janus Subsidiary Expands its Senior Ranks
Intech adds to its leadership team...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Diversified is Moving
The firm will finish its move to its new headquarters this week...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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CapTrust's E-mail Blast Causes a Stir
A recruiting e-mail from CapTrust did not sit well with ASPPA...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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MassMutual Gets the Word Out on its New Statement
The Springfield, Massachusetts-based plan provider prepares to launch a new participant statement this year...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Top 40 Advisor: Veronica Paredes
This Aliso Viejo, California-based advisor is also an executive at a top national retirement plan advisory firm. She lands in the top 40 DC advisors of 2009 as one of the ten finalists in the mid-size market...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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U.S. Global Investors Launches Institutional Shares
The Texas-based firm this week began offering Institutional shares in three of its 13 funds...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Mutual Fund Directors Forum Picks a New Chair
The eight-year-old organization has chosen a successor for David Ruder, who will remain chairman emeritus...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Participants are Recovering Post-Crash, Says Mercer
After the market and 401(k) asset declines of 2008 and early-2009, most participant savings at Mercer are climbing back up..
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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ABG Carolinas Plans to Launch a New 401k Product at ASPPA
The Charlotte-based firm will use the upcoming ASPPA Sales Summit to roll out its new offering...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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A Standard Veteran Jumps to Pru
The nine-year Standard veteran is now a wholesaler at Prudential Retirement...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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WSJ Looks at the Biggest Wealth Creators and Destroyers among Fund Firms
In its Fund Track section Wednesday, The Journal named the biggest wealth creator and wealth destroyer mutual fund firms of the past 10 years...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Are Fido and Schwab Wasting Their Efforts With Commission-Free ETFs?
According to new data from a marketing research firm, affluent ETF investors want full-service brokerage and more, not commission discounts...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Pimco's AUM Ballooned by 40 Percent Last Year
The Newport Beach, California-based bond fund giant saw assets increase by nearly $280 billion in 2009...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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A New Chief Takes Over a Fido Unit
Updated | The Boston Behemoth promotes an exec from within...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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A BGI Exec Departs
After 12 years at BGI, the executive has moved on to take the top job at Renaissance Institutional Management.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Direxion Gets Tactical With Two New Funds
The leveraged index specialists unveil a pair of new offerings...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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ICI Urges Creation of an Uber-Regulator
The industry trade group asks the federal government to create at least two new agencies to oversee the financial markets...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Bill Miller Gains His Distribution Freedom
UPDATED | Legg Mason Capital Management is no longer limited to selling through Smith Barney...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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A Manufacturer Suspends its Match Retroactively
Employees at one plan sponsor now get less DC money going forward ... and going back...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Northern Trust Rolls Out Multi-Manager Target Dates
The Chicago firm has launched target-date funds that combine non-proprietary active managers and index management...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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A Former ING I-O Exec Joins SSgA
The executive how leads global sales and marketing at the State Street unit...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Paychex Halts its 401k Match
The Rochester, New York-based payroll giant has joined the list of plan sponsors suspending their 401k match to save money...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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AP Attacks Absolute Return Funds
A columnist smites the niche offerings for one-year and three-year losses...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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A Fidelity Stockpicker Ponders His 2008 Missteps
Fidelity Contrafund manager Will Danoff says he was late in trimming some holdings in tech stocks and was hurt by picks in the retailing and capital-good sectors...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Another Day Heralds Another Match Cut
A Midwestern newspaper suspends its DC contributions...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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J. Crew Unbuttons its Match
A Big Apple plan sponsor is the latest to cut out is DC contributions...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Class Action Firm Keeps an Eye on Bank of America 401k Plan
Lawyers at a Cincinnati law firm are looking into potential ERISA breaches by Bank of America officials...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Citi Searches for an Institutional Chief
Even as talk of a sale of CitiStreet bubbles, Sallie Krawcheck unveils a Citi reorganization in an internal memo, says a new institutional hire is near...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Claymore Hooks Up with Fiserv to Find Distribution
Claymore Securities has won new distribution for eight of its ETFs...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Transamerica Rebrands
Transamerica is rebranding its fund company and its funds in an effort to increase distribution...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Hewitt Comes to a Decision on DC Leader Duties
Scott Peterson left behind leadership of the mega-plan provider when he retired from Hewitt last fall. But do not expect an outsider to be taking the baton...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Seen and Heard: Lifecycle, Retirement Income Still a Hard Sell With Advisors
Attendees at a conference devoted to the target retirement date fund business discuss the booming market for the products, while advisors worry about how to use such funds without destroying their value-add...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Citi to Reorg its Brokerage Division
Sallie Krawcheck is planning an overhaul of the brokerage unit's structure...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Shareholders Service Group Makes a Buy
Shareholder Service Group has sealed a deal to buy the brokerage business of a California firm...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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BenefitStreet Seals a Deal
The San Ramon, California-based firm inks its first post-Drury deal...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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ALPS Private Equity Funds Finds New Distribution
ALPS Fund Services has landed its private equity fund on a new distribution platform...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Hennessy Goes After Institutional Assets
The Novato, California-based firm has added an institutional share class to four of its funds...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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II Vet Rubenstein Focusing on PreRetirement
The executive who played a key role in the creation of DC News is standing at the head of a new company target the fifty-something set...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Managed Account Adoption Grows
Nearly a quarter of plan sponsors polled by Hewitt Associates now offer managed accounts to participants...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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E*Trade Names Layton as Chief
E*Trade has tapped its current chairman, Donald Layton, to be its chief executive...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Farm Bill Holds Chestnuts for Roth Fans
The bill is on the fast track and would create a new type of plan for some Americans, among other changes. Meanwhile, do not look for a fee bill in 2008...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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WSJ Talks ETF Tracking Errors with an ETF Pro
Two WSJ reporters talk tracking errors with the head of Morgan Stanley's ETF research group...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Fund Managers Find U.S. Bond Yields Not What They Used to Be
Bond fund managers that cater to income oriented investors are more often having to look outside U.S. borders to find higher yields...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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McNabb Aims for a Bigger Target-Date Market Share
Vanguard's next CEO wants to further develop the firm's target-date funds and capture a bigger slice of the 401k market...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Court Junks Marsh Class Suit
A district court has tossed out a lawsuit alleging that Marsh & McLennan and its mutual fund unit, Putnam Investments, permitted certain mutual fund investors and fund managers to engage in market timing in Putnam Funds...
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Pentegra CEO Jumps Ship
The firm's chief legal counsel has been named acting CEO...
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Friday, March 3, 2006
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Babson CEO Moves Out of Funds
Babson Capital CEO William Glavin Jr. is taking a new job at MassMutual heading the insurer's Individual Insurance Group. The shift in Glavin's duties comes roughly a month after MassMutual sent Babson's fund assets to sister company OppenheimerFunds as a part of a restructuring intended to focus the identity of each unit...
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NFL 401k Could Lose Funding
How the football league teams share revenue could also hit the player 401k plan...
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Amvescap Chairman To Step Down In April
Rex Adams, who has served as a non-executive director of the London-based firm since November 2001, will be the next Amvescap chairman. The job is opening with the retirement of Charles Brady, who will relinquish his post to at the close of the firm's annual general meeting on April 27...
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Benefit Consultants Group Builds Wholesaler Force
The New Jersey firm has recently created a wholesaler position and is looking to expand the lineup to 15 over the next few years...
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Friday, March 3, 2006
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DAC Expands Sales Team
The Mobile, Alabama-based outsourced recordkeeper and plan administrator has added a senior consultant and is looking to further expand its sales force...
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Morningstar Makes Foray Into ETF Rankings
Morningstar is jumping into the exchange-traded fund ranking arena. The Chicago-based mutual fund rating firm is reportedly planning to unveil a service on Friday that will enable investors to compare ETFs...
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RS Brings on Two New Hires
San Francisco, California-based RS Investments has added two hires to its investment and trading teams. Brenda A. Barber, formerly an analyst at RCM Global Investors, joins RS as a small-cap equity analyst. Jean Timken also joins the firm from West Highland Capital, where she was head trader...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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Putnam to Pay $83 MM More
Putnam's independent distribution consultant finds that the firm needs to open its corporate coffers a bit wider...
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ADP Brings New Face to Retirement Unit
The New Jersey firm has found a new leader for its retirement unit and he is not one of the usual suspects...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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Principal Promotes Sales Exec
No need to change your rolodex, the company veteran will continue to head sales...
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AUL Picks Two Age-Target Fund Providers
The provider bolsters is asset allocation lineup with a newly launched age-targeted series...
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MetLife Partners for Online Ed
The insurer has paired up to add online content for its plan participants.
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Arnold Aid Opens Door on DC Plan Compromise
Will the great California retirement reform debate be over before it begins? Perhaps...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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Rev Your Engines, Auto Giant Considers Options
Elephant hunters have their ears to the ground. Whispers are that one of the big three automakers is mulling over a possible search for a new recordkeeper...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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Fund Flow Track Sees Growth
TrimTabs, which started tracking daily mutual fund flows as an investment tools, has added ETFs, a new office and a marketer...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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A New Look for Financial Planning?
Fund firms targeting advisors will see a new editorial look surrounding their ads in Financial Planning magazine.
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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ALPS Chooses New Fund Software
ALPS Mutual Funds Services, a Denver, Colorado-based fund services provider, has chosen a new software vendor for its fund administration and accounting services...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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Citi Manager Leaps to TIAA-CREF
Susan Kempler has joined TIAA-CREF as a director and portfolio manager for more than $1 billion in Institutional and Retail Growth & Income fund assets. She will be based out of San Francisco...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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Franklin Advisors Loses CCO to US Bancorp
David H. Lui, formerly Franklin Advisors' chief compliance officer, has joined U.S. Bancorp Asset Management for a similar position...
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Closed, but Not for Long
Being open-ended is looking appealing, to some shareholders of Scudder's Intermediate Government & Agency Trust fund. The shareholders invoked a lifeboat provision to convert from a closed-end fund to an open-ended fund in December, and will vote on the issue in May, reports the Wall Street Journal ...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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Lobbying Firm to Represent Fund Directors
As Congress deliberates fund reforms, an industry association hires a firm to represent independent fund directors...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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Congress Pushes Ahead on Fund Reform
In a fifth public hearing addressing mutual fund reform, members of Congress hear objections to two SEC proposals...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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Trade Group Supports Soft Dollars
An industry association released a statement opposing the ICI proposal to eliminate third-party research from soft dollar practices...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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SEC Clears Fund President
The SEC decided not to recommend action against the president of the largest publicly traded mutual fund company in the U.S...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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RS Latest Fund Firm Caught in SEC Net
The San Francisco fund firm says that the SEC staff has recommended civil charges be brought for timing in one of its funds...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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Hard Close is a Hard Sell
Two industry trade groups say the SEC proposed hard close would penalize millions of investors saving for retirement...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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ASPA: Proposal Will Change How People Save
A revised Treasury proposal on savings accounts meets ASPA approval...
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Wash. Post Calls for Oxley Probe
The paper calls for Congress to look into the ICI affair...
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CitiStreet Rejiggers Retirement Services Staff
The provider is eliminating up to 40 jobs as its closes half of its small field offices, while adding scores more in its new centralized call centers...
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Monday, March 3, 2003
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Directors Are Next on AFL-CIO List
The union is not letting go its grip on fund issues now that it won on proxy-vote disclosure...
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Monday, March 3, 2003
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T. Rowe Nominates Director
The Baltimore firm nominates an outsider to fill the Board seat vacated by Martin Wade...
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US Firms Eye European Buys
The worm has turned. It is now the Americans looking to buy in Europe instead of vice verse...
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GoldK Inks Marketing Alliance
The Waltham, Mass.-based outsourced recordkeeping partners with an industry software vendor...
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Fido Reorg Targets TPAs
The Boston Behemoth pulls out its TPA business under a newly minted president...
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Boehner Intros Pension Security Act
His committee is expected to vote on the bill this week...
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Monday, March 3, 2003
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An Internet Future: The Transparent Workplace
David Wray of the PSCA takes a stab at the inevitable future of the workplace and its metamorphosis into transparency for employees...
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Friday, March 3, 2000
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Small Bytes: Wirehouse to Sell Skandia Funds
The MutualFundWire.com's Friday bonus coverage -- tasty bytes of the week's happenings in the mutual fund business and related financial service companies...
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Friday, March 3, 2000
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Sponsor Looks to Shag Provider
Yeah baby! A carpet manufacturer is looking for a new 401k provider who shows strength in employee communication...
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Friday, March 3, 2000
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Early Spring Cleaning at Countrywide Funds
The acquisition of Countrywide Financial Services has lead to the restructuring of its fund complex including mergers with Touchstone funds and new fund launches...
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Friday, March 3, 2000
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Morningstar Buys Advisor Software Company
Morningstar has acquired a stake in a software company that offers portfolio management and accounting products to financial advisors...
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Prichard Leaves TCW
The senior vice president and director of advisor services for Los Angeles' TCW Galileo Funds has left the company...
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Odd Lots, March 3, 2000
Citigroup creates German supermarket ... European investors pour money into funds ... Equity-income mutual funds, Ouch ... The Web boosts Fidelity profits ... Swiss banking giant combines investment management biz ... NASD and NYSE speak of merging...
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Q&A with Jeff Garrity
The head of J.P. Morgan/American Century sits down (telephonically) with The 401kWire to discuss the state of the industry and where it's going...
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Friday, March 3, 2000
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Small Bytes: New ADP Virtual Consultant
The 401kWire.com takes its weekly look at the comings and goings of the retirement and related industries...
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Friday, March 3, 2000
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ProFunds Creates New Index with New Funds Launch
ProFunds will be launching two new funds later this month using the newly created PEI-ProFunds Europe Index...
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999
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First Data Takes on Watson Wyatt Recordkeeping
First Data Investor Services Group, Inc., a unit of First Data Corporation (NYSE: FDC), announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Watson Wyatt Worldwide. This alliance will allow for Watson Wyatt's U.S.-based defined contribution services to be shifted to First Data...
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999
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Merrill Lynch Asset Management Chairman to Retire
Merrill Lynch Asset Management Chairman and 20-year Merrill vet Arthur Zeikel will retire from the firm...
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999
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Phoenix Partners Completes Zweig Acquisition
Phoenix Investment Partners continues to acquire brand-name managers with the completion of the purchase of the Zweig and Euclid funds...
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999
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Odd Lots, March 3, 1999
Merrill Lynch launching new ad campaign with "human achievement" theme ... Overseas fund firms face tough times ... Update on Merrill discrimination suit...
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999
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Wellman Chooses Fund
Charlotte, North Carolina-headquartered Wellman, Inc. (NYSE: WLM) has chosen to add the Bankers Trust's BT Investment International Equity Fund (BTEQX) for its participants, Sharon Whittle, manager of retirement plans, told the 401kWire.com. The two 401(k) plans have $182 million in assets and 4,500 participants...
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999
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Wal-Mart Launches New 401(k)
Bentonville, AR-located Wal-Mart has chosen KPGM Peat Marwick to be the consultant for its defined contribution plan, according to Luke Collins, head of the accounting firm's new Chicago office. Prior to the chain store's annual employer contribution to be made this month, the estimated assets for this plan is $90 million. KPMG's will monitor plan performance. Collins explained that the decision made by Wal-Mart, famed for its profit-sharing plan, to take the 401(k) path was natural and that this step was something its associates wanted...
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Tuesday, March 3, 1998
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KPMG Opens Midwestern 401(k) Consulting Office
KPMG Peat Marwick Consulting Group has named Luke Collins to head a newly formed regional 401(k) consulting business covering the Midwest. Collins joins KPMG from Quadra Capital Partners and will be located in the consulting firm's Chicago office. The new group will be adding staff, but the time-table for this is currently not known...
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Tuesday, March 3, 1998
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