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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Week In Preview, February 17 - February 22
This week, the teams at Spark, WIPN, Hub, PSCA, WP&BC, EBRI, DCIIA, and Alight are hosting events..
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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35Y In, a Founder and a Chairman Take Control
A familiar duo is poised to buy a controlling stake in a privately held, fund firm in California...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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Happy Presidents' Day Weekend!
MFWire will be closed on Monday in observance of the Washington's Birthday market holiday...
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Friday, February 17, 2023
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Happy Presidents' Day Weekend!
401kWire will be closed on Monday in observance of the Washington's Birthday market holiday...
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Friday, February 17, 2023
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A Golden State KPA Rises At Morgan Stanley
The advisor has spent a dozen years with the wirehouse...
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Friday, February 17, 2023
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Where Is Fidelity Adding Hundreds of Employees?
Abby Johnson plans to expand her team by 4,000 by mid-year...
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Friday, February 17, 2023
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A One-Week, $25B Reversal
The Refinitiv Lipper folks reveal the latest weekly U.S. flows data...
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Friday, February 17, 2023
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A PEP Watcher Helps Employers and Their KPAs
A new toolkit is intended to help adopting employers monitor their PEPs...
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Friday, February 17, 2023
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USGI Leads With $332MM As Small Firms' Inflows Return
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for January 2022 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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What the RFPIO Deal Means For InHub
The PE-backed acquirer's chief talks to 401kWire...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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RPA Teams Up to Launch CITs
It's part of the Chi-Town RIA's move into the AMA space...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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Seven Years In, an Ohio and PA Wholesaler Departs
The executive worked with a Midwestern insurer's retirement plan business...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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A NorCal Startup Debuts Its First Seven ETFs
The fixed income-focused firm has also filed to launch its second suite of ETFs...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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A Provider Strategist Steps Away from the Day-to-Day
Updated | The former consultant and PM most recently spent more than five years with T. Rowe Price...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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Despite a January Dip, Inflows Rise YOY
Updated | The M* team updates U.S. flows data for January 2021 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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A Jersey TPA Powers One PEP and Preps More
The multi-state shop serves as the PPP and 3(16) for a consulting firm's PEP...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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A Northeastern RKer Builds a Special Consulting Team
Updated | The idea is to help with complex situations and compliance problems...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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2021's Six Most Sustainable RKers
Only the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies qualified for consideration on the list, which is powered by a fund firm's ESG arm...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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2021's Six Most Sustainable Fund Firms
Only the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies qualified for consideration on the list, which is powered by a mutual fund firm's ESG arm...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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Why a $1.3B-AUA KPA Shop Sold
The founder says distribution is key to the deal...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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Fiduciary Litigation Watch Moves to Minnesota
A week after the DoL's federal court victory in Texas, the next ruling could come from a Minnesota judge. ..
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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Institutional Shares Now Utterly Dominate This NTF Platform
Two and a half years into a big push, an RIA custodian has seen flows completely transform...
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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Sapiens Exec Leaves the Firm
Brought on in April 2016, this executive vice president for the North American business has departed the company. ..
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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Kravitz Hires in Orange County
This executive brings more than 20 years of actuarial and retirement plan consulting expertise to Kravitz...
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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Unionized Millennials and Baby Boomers Weigh in
Each financial services provider has a role to play in helping bridge the accumulation gap, especially when it comes to millennials and baby boomers...
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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The New Fund Fuss - February 17, 2017
The latest funds about to make their grand debut!..
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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Expect Miracles Takes Manhattan With Their Biggest Event Ever
The group with the tagline "Financial Services Against Cancer" hosts its third annual NYC cocktail party...
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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Post Yoerger, OneAmerica Promotes Two
OneAmerica continues internal leadership changes after the departure of Bill Yoerger. ..
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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The Man Who Would Rescue the Anti DoL Rule Fight
A day after Andy Puzder withdrew from consideration, Donald Trump nominates someone else for Secretary of Labor. If the new nominee is confirmed by the Senate, he will be the one to carry any fiduciary reg delay, change, or repeal across the finish line...
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Friday, February 17, 2017
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A Partner Leaves Wellington After 15 Years
He is one of the PMs on a $5.5B, 32-year-old mutual fund...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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New PMs Take Over a 62-Year-Old Fund
Watch for this Sunshine State mutual fund shop to expand its distribution efforts...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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A Giant Texas School District Seeks 457 Proposals
This school district claims to be the largest in Texas and seventh-largest in the United States...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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A Manhattan KPA Moves to RayJay
The team works primarily with law firms, doctors' offices, and other small businesses...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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Pershing Welcomes Two RKers To Its Retirement Plan Network
The BNY Mellon subsidiary's retirement plan offering expands...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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An Insurance Brokerage Sues MassMutual Over Stable Value
The complaint calls MassMutual a fiduciary and accuses the provider of receiving undisclosed and unreasonable compensation. ..
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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Guardian Expands Managed Account Options With a New QDIA
Guardian Life brings its new QDIA for managed accounts...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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A Texas Fund Firm Slims Down By 60 Percent
Smart beta ETFs and outsourced operations are the future for this publicly-traded shop...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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LA Opens Two 457 Searches
The giant SoCal city is conducting a pair of RFPs...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Vanguard, TCW, and DoubleLine Win January
Morningstar releases inflow and outflow estimates for January 2015...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Next Up For Gemini: Strategic Acquisitions
The mutual fund back office shop's parent is about to sell to a private equity giant. That means more capital for the Gemini team to invest in deals of their own...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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A Jersey Shop Hires a KPA
An independent advisory firm that creates investment and wealth management solutions for individuals, families, corporate retirement plans, charities and foundations recently welcomed a retirement chief to the practice...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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This PAi Alum Will Lead Aspire's BPO Sales
The open architecture recordkeeper has a new SVP.....
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Wagner Hires in Missouri
The Beantown ERISA legal eagles welcomes another fellow retirement law specialist to her firm, this time in the Midwest...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Anderson Seals a Key Retirement Alliance For Cetera
Updated | The giant indie B-D teams up with a Midwestern ally of B-Ds and RIAs...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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OneAmerica's Yoerger Hires a Voya Alum For a Key Post
...following an expansion to a three-region sales structure. ..
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Fidelity Earns $3.4B
The Boston Behemoth's AUM and AUA both rose last year, though not by as much as the markets...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Third Avenue Invests in an Ex-U.S. Treasury Top Dog
The AMG affiliate teams up a with a restructuring expert...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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Industry Vets Launch an Advisor 401k Resource Center For B-Ds
A consulting firm looks to help broker-dealers and providers "cast their web wider" in the retirement plan business...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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A $1B, Five-Star, Small-Cap Fund Will Partially Close
A no-load mutual fund firm prepares to shut new investors out of one of its mutual funds...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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First Eagle Funds Enters Fixed Income, With Five Stars
The Empire State mutual fund firm takes over a four-year-old mutual fund...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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Mutual of Omaha Hires a Marketing Veteran
The insurance names a new product and distribution vice president for its 401(k) business...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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Who Will Win Rhode Island's New DC Plan?
Watch for the State Investment Commission to make its selection by next month...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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"Broker Banter" Sinks Pentagon in a Late-Trading Case
A U.S. federal judge orders a British hedge fund chief and his firm to shell out $76.8 million over mutual fund late trading. Yet the judge also dismissed claims of market timing...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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First Trust Adds Two More AlphaDex ETFs
The Prairie State exchange-traded fund firm launches its eighth and ninth new ETFs of the week...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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Barron's Worries About the Cost of Active ETFs
The new "Focus on Funds" columnist highlights analyst from S&P Capital IQ...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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Hennion & Walsh to Shutter its Line of Funds-of-ETFs
The New Jersey firm plans to liquidate the three funds next month...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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A Pair of Atlanta Advisors Link Up with RPAG
The advisors running Legacy Executive Benefits have signed on with RPAG...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Thesis Taps an Ex-OppFunds Exec for its Advisory Board
The New York City-based firm, which launched an alternative mutual fund, last year, now counts five advisory board members...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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MoneyMate Sets Up Shop in Beantown
The Irish firm opens its second office in North America...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Mercer Trumpets its DC Client Wins
The firm said its technology and consulting services resulted in a larger client base...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Top Advisors: Erik Tappin
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney..
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Top Advisor: Jill Shea
Shea Retirement Services (Retirement Plan Advisory Group)..
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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'Are You Scared of Hank Herrmann?'
The Kansas City-based mutual fund firm hopes to increase brand recognition through ads and documentary videos...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Mutual Funds Continue to See Inflows
Investors pumped in more than $9 billion into mutual funds last week...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Fido Expands its Relationship with iShares
The Boston Behemoth is adding to its lineup of ETFs that trade for free online...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Sunny Days at MFS
Rob Manning and co. chalk up record gross sales
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Morningstar Ends 2010 on a High Note
Joe Mansueto is pleased with his firm's performance in 2010...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Newport and Another Top Exec Part Ways
The open architecture provider says goodbye to a 10-year retirement services employee...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Hartford Avoids 401k Trial with a $13.78 Million Payout
The provider agrees to a settlement over DC revenue sharing...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Rydex | SGI Chief Plans Internal Expansion Post-Merger
Rich Goldman expects to keep the asset manager's brand and team intact after Guggenheim Partners acquires Security Benefit...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Account Balances Rise
Thanks in part to the market recovery last spring, Fidelity participants had more money in their 401k accounts than in 2008...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Lincoln Offers More Advantages to 403bs
Because of the new 403b regulations, the provider updates its product...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Fidelity Ups Its Advisor Ante and Wins Over a High Net Worth Shop
The newest Hightower office aligns with the Boston Behemoth...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Pioneer Expands its RIA Distribution
Updated | The Boston-based mutual fund firm aims to up the niche team to six...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Societe Generale Says Goodbye to TCW's Founder
Robert Day leaves the board of the firm he sold his company to...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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More Woes for Toyota as Stock Drop Attacks Loom
A law group is investigating two 401k plans for break ERISA regs concerning company stock in their retirement plans..
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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BrightScope Stretches Out
The San Diego-based benchmarking startup moves and continues to expand...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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EGA Launches First of Many BRIC ETFs
The new ETF specialist is steadily making good on its promise to add ten ETFs to its fund line-up in its first year...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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How TCW Shot the Soldier, and Other Tales of Gundlach
A wire service delves deeper into the tale of the departed investing guru...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Stevens Talks Saints, Snow and 401ks
ICI president Paul Schott Stevens addressed the Nicsa conference Monday afternoon...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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WSJ: Why Don't Fund Firms Publicly Criticize Their Portfolio Companies?
Fund firms may simply not feel a public fight is worth the gain, but that is not the answer the paper finds...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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A Chicago Firm Moves Out of the Retail Fund Track
Saying that retail mutual fund operations and distribution
are not its core area of expertise, a Chicago firm inks a deal that will move eight mutual funds to HighMark Capital Management...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Legg Mason Names Institutional Head
The Baltimore-based fund firm has tapped a Deutsche Bank vet to lead its institutional business...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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American Funds Plans to Add a Money Market Fund
The California-based fund giant plans to add to its money market fund roster...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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A Michigan RIA Scores Two New Plans
A Bloomfield Hills, Michigan retirement specialist has added to its list of plan sponsors clients.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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NRP Eyes Producing TPAs
The California-based firm is recruiting to create a national TPA network...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Callan Sale Could Narrow Asset Managers' Distribution
Callan Associates is changing hands...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Callan Associates Sells
The pure-play investment consultant is changing hands...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Is it Time for a Retirement Fed?
A Money Magazine scribe calls for the creation of a quasi-independent Federal Retirement Security Board...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Consultants Put the Target Date Pain in Perspective
Rocaton Advisors takes a look at the performance last year of age-based asset allocation funds...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Gamco Posts Q4 Loss
Mario Gabelli's Gamco investors posted a loss in Q4, driven by "mark to market" losses...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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A Study Predicts ETF Assets to Cross the Trillion Mark in Two Years
A new study found that a shift in the way money is invested will increase assets in ETFs...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Morningstar Adjusts its Target-Date Fund Microscope
The Chicago firm has changed the way it looks at target-date funds...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Some Closed-End Fund Investors May Be in for a Disappointment
In Monday's Wall Street Journal Fund Track, Daisy Maxey writes that some closed-end fund investors eyeing a cash distribution this year could end up with more shares of their funds instead due to an IRS move last month...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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T. Rowe Price Funds Adopts Caterpillar Funds
Caterpillar's funds will come out of their cocoons metamorphised under the T. Rowe Price brand.
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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T. Rowe Price Funds Adopts Caterpillar Funds
Caterpillar's funds will come out of their cocoons metamorphised under the T. Rowe Price brand...
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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Fairfax County Adds Third 457 Provider
The plan administrator hiring may not be the last by the Virginia county...
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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AIG SunAmerica Trains Sights On Small Businesses
The provider has tapped an outsourced recordkeeper for its new 401(k) offering that includes investment options from 14 asset managers...
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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401(k) Plans Riding Mason St. Funds Get Road Map
Plans sponsors will have to find new rides as two funds will cease to be available in connection with the reorganization at Mason Street.
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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No More Driving on Mason Street . . .
Two months after American Century and Federated announced their intent to adopt Northwestern Mutual's Mason Street Funds, the insurer has laid out more details on the process for shareholders...
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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. . . 401(k) Plans Riding Mason St. Funds Get Road Map
Plans sponsors will have to find new rides as two funds will cease to be available in connection with the reorganization at Mason Street...
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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Janus Wins DST Battle with the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service is now convinced that Janus sale of its DST Systems, Inc. was indeed a non-taxable event to Janus shareholders. The tax authorities had questioned the December, 2004 divestment as part of their regular review of Janus' 2003 Federal income tax return...
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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Fidelity To Close International Fund
Fidelity Investments is shutting one of its international equity funds to new investors to keep it from growing too large to manage...
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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State Street Teams Up With Red Sox
Boston-based State Street Corp. is stamping its name onto a section of Fenway Park. The financial services firm has sealed a partnership with the Boston Red Sox under which State Street receives naming rights to an improvement at the park...
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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Mercer IC Names New Head
The company draws on a veteran to take over for Barry McInerney...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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SEC Fines Late Trading Brokerage $150,000
New York brokerage Brean Murray will pay $150,000 to settle allegations that the firm helped late trade mutual funds, reported Bloomberg on Thursday. The firm allegedly helped Canary Capital Partners late trade mutual funds through an unnamed clearing firm...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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New Mexico Studies DC Move
More states consider enrolling new employees in a defined contribution plan...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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CalPERS Board Says No to DC Plan
Schwarzenegger faces opposition from CalPERS' board members...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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DoL Fines Sponsor for Reporting Errors
A California firm will pay tens of thousands of dollars for filing late and incomplete reports...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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Taft-Hartley Expert Back at Putnam
A sales executive returns after a brief stint elsewhere...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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ADP Chooses EGTRRA Provider
The retirement services provider now has a place to send mandatory balances...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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DeSano Stays, but Five Will Join Him
Fidelity Investments has hired four managers to work under head trader Scott DeSano, the Boston Globe reported on Thursday. One more has yet to be named...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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Merrill, Morgan Stanley Drop Trails on Small Accounts
Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley have stopped paying trail commissions smaller accounts, reports the Wall Street Journal . The two firms join Piper Jaffrey, which already does not pay commissions on accounts less than $10,000...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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BlackRock Plans $250 MM Debt Offer
BlackRock announced on Thursday that it is offering $250 million in convertible debt. The debt will bear interest at 2.625 percent annually, and be convertible on February 10, 2010. The firm will use the funds raised to repay monies used for the State Street Research & Management acquisition as well as general corporate purposes. The acquisition was funded with a $150 million bridge promissory note. The offering is open to qualified institutional buyers and is expected to close on February 23, 2005...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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SEC Hones in on Fund POS, Disclosure
In addition to outstanding redemption fee and late trading proposals, the SEC is focusing on revising fund point of sale disclosure. SEC Chairman William H. Donaldson, addressing the Mutual Fund Directors Forum on Wednesday evening, highlighted "straightforward, simple disclosure" as an important priority at the commission...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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Deutsche Asset Management Rehires Director
After a brief stint at the firm last year, Heidi Walker signs back on with the company...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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T. Rowe Names New CFO
The new number cruncher comes from a Baltimore-based architectural firm...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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Pioneer Completes Adoption
Boston-based firm to begin managing two new funds...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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AERS Hires Education Veep
The firm's newest division now has an industry veteran as a leader...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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PIMCO Parent Charged with Suit in New Jersey
PIMCO parent Allianz Dresdner and three affiliated funds were charged with defrauding investors in exchange of market timing rights for sticky assets with Canary Capital...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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NYAG, SEC Looking into 401k Revenue Sharing
The latest probes could chance the circulatory system of the retirement industry...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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Newport Adds Personal Rate of Return to Website
The Newport Group has upgraded its website for plan participants with new personal performance tools...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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Donaldson Set to Take Oath
William Donaldson is set to be sworn in Tuesday morning as the new chairman of the SEC...
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Monday, February 17, 2003
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Higher Education
A university has chosen a provider who will be opening a new branch office to better serve its new client...
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Thursday, February 17, 2000
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PNC Head to Retire
PNC Bank's chairman and chief executive officer will be stepping down at the end of May, replaced by the president and COO...
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Thursday, February 17, 2000
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AEFA Gives Advisors Franchise Option
The independent advisors that have been affiliated with American Express as independent contractors will now have the option of becoming full employees or independent franchisees...
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Franklin Templeton Expands its Business
Franklin has added an unbundled 401k option to start the year but it is only the start of things to come...
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Thursday, February 17, 2000
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State Street's Confidential Filing
State Street has filed nine ETFs to list on the AMEX. Two of the filings are being held confidential...
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Thursday, February 17, 2000
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On Your Side?
Nationwide Financial has received approval in New York state to sell its "modular" variable annuity...
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Wanted: DC Head of Marketing
Officials at Barclays have been looking for an exec to head-up the firm's DC marketing effort...
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Odd Lots, February 17, 2000
The war between Janus and KCS continues ... Vanguard looks to grow in Europe ... Will 'Peanuts' characters still sell? ... Not all retirement calculators are equal...
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Odd Lots, February 17, 2000
The war between Janus and KCS continues ... Vanguard looks to grow in Europe ... Will 'Peanuts' characters still sell? ... Not all retirement calculators are equal...
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Thursday, February 17, 2000
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Ameriquest Taps New Vendor
Orange County, California-based Ameriquest Mortgage Company has selected Putnam Investments to be the bundled provider for its 401(k) plan, an official at the sponsor told the 401kWire.com. The plan has $16 million in assets and 3,000 participants...
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Wednesday, February 17, 1999
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Asset Management Acquisitions Continue
Credit Suisse Asset Management has agreed to purchase Warburg Pincus Asset Management for $650 million...
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Wednesday, February 17, 1999
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Warburg Pincus Purchased
Credit Suisse Asset Management, the institutional asset management and mutual fund operations of Credit Suisse Group will acquire the asset management arm of Warburg, Pincus, & Co. for $650 million...
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Wednesday, February 17, 1999
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Short Takes: More on USA's
Nolo.com, the self-help law center has created a new section discussing retirement legal issues. Included in the section are articles ranging from myths about retirement plans to withdrawing from retirement account. Nolo added this section as part of its release of its newest book IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans Taking Your Money Out...
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Wednesday, February 17, 1999
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Odd Lots, Feb. 17, 1999
Fidelity loses online talent ... More on E*Trade's new funds...
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Week of February 15, 1998
Sunday, February 15, 1998. The Dallas Morning News.
"Vanguard Top 401(k) Performer" by Scott Burns states that a list of the nation's top mutual funds finds four of the top five positions held by Vanguard. Other winners include: T. Rowe Price's Equity-Income rose from 11th to 8th, Fidelity's Contrafund moved from 15th to 12th, and Putnam's Voyager A climbed to 18th from 21st. There were declines as well. Neuberger and Berman Guardian Fund went from the 12th spot to the 20th, and American Century 20th Century Ultra declined to the 17th position from the eighth slot.
Sunday, February 15, 1998. The Chicago Sun-Times.
Terry Savage in "Don't Make Snap Decision on Long-term Plan" essentially advises participants to think about long-term gains with regard to their 401(k) plans. The reporter directs employees who feel overwhelmed by all the information out there about plans to The Complete Idiot's Guide to 401(k) Plans by Wayne Bogosian and Dee Lee. The author also explores the complex issues of fees and funds that try to beat the market.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to 401(k)Plans is available at Amazon.com...
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For Tuesday, February 17, 1998
We all know the situation. The competition to be a provider in the 401(k) marketplace is becoming fiercer and fiercer. As in a war zone, good intelligence can turn the tide of battle in your favor. Where can this intelligence be found in the defined contribution market? The 401kWire found five providers of databases which can serve as lead generators for marketers of defined contribution plans...
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