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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Week In Preview, March 16 - March 22
This week, the teams at P&I, ARA, ASPPA, FRA, Spark, Plan Design Consultants, ERISApedia, the House Committee on Education & Workforce, Human Interest, Stax.ai, EBRI, and WP&BC will host events, and a PSCA deadline is coming up...
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Monday, March 16, 2026
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Week In Preview, March 16 - March 22
This week, the teams at Exchange, MMI, Citywire, IDC, Nicsa, Crane Data, and the ICI will host events..
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Monday, March 16, 2026
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Avoid Financial Mansplaining and Listen!
My colleague Andrew talks to a provider executive about how KPAs can better support female participants...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Titans' Flows Fall By $38B
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for February 2023 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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A KPA Chronicles the Biz
A 401(k) plan advisor is streaming his discussions with recordkeepers...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Annexus Teams With an Ally to More than 50 RKers
The duo will partnering on infrastructure to support Annexus' Lifetime Income Builder...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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OneDigital Acquires Into Arizona
The insurance brokerage snaps up a pair of shops in the Grand Canyon State. One of those acquirees is a KPA shop...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Three Jensen Employees Gain Stakes
More than half of the asset manager's employees are shareholders...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Kais and Crew Join a Connecticut Trade Group
The provider chief will serve on the organization's research and strategic issues committee...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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ProShares Repeats Atop Midsize Firms' Shrinking Inflows Pack
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for February 2022 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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CapTrust Parts With a Seven-Year Ally
The PE-backed, KPA aggregator RIA is divesting as an insurance brokerage makes a buy...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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Ohl Lands, Outside DC
The former Lincoln RPS chief is preparing to join another insurer, but not on the retirement plan side of the business...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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A $64B-AUM Firm Preps a $150MM Adoption-Conversion Combo
The acquirer will keep the old PM and fund firm on to run what will be a new ETF...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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An Ins Brokerage Is Buying an $80B-AUA KPA RIA
As part of the deal, some of the RIA's advisors will take stakes in the acquirer...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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A Northeastern RKer Goes Through "a Scaling and Growth Moment"
Watch for a retirement plan provider distribution leader to double his team's territory count this year...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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Midsize Inflows Rise 33 Percent
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for February 2021 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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A $43B-Asset Firm Divides DC I-O and Institutional
After the hiring of a new co-chief of institutional, a five-year company executive will focus on retirement...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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Popp Adds to Lockton RS' C-Suite
The new hire previously served in a similar position at a KPA aggregator...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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Nelson and 3 Lieutenants Rise at Voya
The publicly traded retirement plan provider reorgs as its retirement chief takes on a broader role...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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Direxion, BlackRock, and Innovator Lead an Awards Race
A trade publication reveals the finalists for its 2020 awards. Winners will be recognized next month...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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Familiar PE Bets On a 401k Advice Giant
The deal values the privately held firm at $7.3 billion...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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Inflows Plunge By 69 Percent
The M* team updates flows data for February 2020 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Monday, March 16, 2020
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Callahan Hires Four For Transamerica's Service Team
The new hires previously worked at AIG, Brown Advisory, MassMutual, and OneAmerica...
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Monday, March 16, 2020
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More Conferences Do the COVID-19 Shift
Industry trade groups postpone more spring events in light of the new coronavirus guidance from the CDC...
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Monday, March 16, 2020
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Schwab's Participant Count Dips a Bit, But ...
The brokerage giant's retirement plan business saw a slight decrease in its size last month...
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Monday, March 16, 2020
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The Boston Behemoth Embraces WFH
Fundsters continues to react to the coronavirus pandemic...
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Monday, March 16, 2020
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An Empire State RKer Teams Up In the Island of Enchantment
The open architecture provider makes a payroll alliance...
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Monday, March 16, 2020
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Hub Buys a Beehive State Shop With KPAs
The acquisitive insurance brokerage brings on an employee benefits shop with a retirement division...
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Friday, March 16, 2018
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Wholesalers Are Improving in Wirehouse and Indie FAs' Eyes, But ...
New research sheds light on how advisors see wholesalers and what they want...
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Friday, March 16, 2018
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Transition Specialists Get a ProMotion
EACH Enterprise, LLC, has developed a certification program for service provider transition specialists. ..
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Friday, March 16, 2018
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A Maryland KPA Shop Switches B-Ds
An advisory firm in the Washington, D.C. metro area just aligned with a broker-dealer in Texas..
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Friday, March 16, 2018
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Hatch and Wyden Bring a Retirement Bill Back to the Senate
The soon-to-retire Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has introduced a bill amending his popular 2016 Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act...
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Friday, March 16, 2018
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An Appeals Court Strikes Down the Fiduciary Reg
The ruling overturns a lower court ruling and combines three lawsuits from different trade groups...
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Friday, March 16, 2018
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Where Will Roman Bring Pimco Next?
The chief of the SoCal-based fixed income asset management giant is reportedly considering adding another big U.S. office with about 200 employees. Which city will win?..
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Friday, March 16, 2018
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Meet with 401kWire This Weekend
Connect with our editorial team this weekend in Las Vegas at the NAPA 401k Summit! ..
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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How to Retain and Attract Millennials to Your 401k Biz
Are you giving millennials a chance?..
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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Don't Wait for NAPA 2017, Here's a Sneak Peek...
At RIA's New Materials, stay tuned.....
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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Truscott Shifts Columbia's RIA Distro
The move comes as a 30-year company veteran is preparing to leave the Ameriprise subsidiary...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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A $5 Billion ETF Shop Enters the Traditional Fund Biz
This Oakland, CA-based ETF shop defies the notion that the mutual fund is dead...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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$174MM Plan Closes RFP
A Massachusetts-based technology company has selected a new investment consultant. ..
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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T. Rowe Price Makes a Midwest Hire to Grow Market
The firm is making a push into the small- and mid-market by bringing on a senior retirement sales executive. ..
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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Reynolds & Murphy Empower Millennials
Empower Retirement reaches out to the youngest workers, Millennials, with a new campaign aimed at increasing retirement savings. ..
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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T. Rowe Unveils a New Tool to Reach Investment Goals
The new offering provides a variety of investment tools. ..
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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Buffington Builds His Own Brand
The MassMutual alum has struck out on his own to build a brand new 401(k) provider, and spoke with 401kWire on his latest efforts. ..
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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KPA Profile: Prosperity Financial Group
"We are one of the largest retirement advisory firms in the Midwest."..
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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The End of ICI's Palm Desert-Orlando Era
The mutual fund industry trade group is changing things up location-wise next year for its annual legal conference...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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Trucker Huss Welcomes A New ERISA Lawyer
An ERISA employee benefits law firm welcomes a new lawyer to its firm...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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Big Data Is NEAT, But Will the SEC's Big Guns Share?
The regulatory agency's top cop and its examinations chief talk to fundsters in Florida...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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The 2016 Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference in pictures
The conference wraps up in the sunshine state...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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A Kansas City Wealth Management Firm Brings on a 401k Consultant
A wealth management firm in Kansas City, Kansas welcomes a 401(k) retirement plan advisor to its team...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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Ready, Set to Enhance Mobile Experience
New mobile options designed to give participants greater ease-of-access and decision-making. ..
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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Gould Empowers Putnam's DC I-O Effort
Updated | The new chief could double the team by the end of next year...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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Aurora Public Schools Select a 403(b) Provider
A rocky mountain state school system hikes it plan over to a new provider. ..
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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BPAS Launches Learning Center for Participants
New York-based BPAS Plan Administration and Recordkeeping Services announces an education center for its 401(k) plan participants...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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Calamos Hands His Reins to an I-Banker
The billionnaire fundster is stepping aside but not out at his own mutual fund shop. And he's been bringing in an outside as the next CEO...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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A Stable Value Vet Changes Shops
Chris Tobe joins a fiduciary investment consulting company. ..
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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The CapTrust Deal: What It Means For Pensionmark
Troy Hammond talks about the groundshaking alliance between the two giant groups of KPAs...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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An Ex LPL Head Honcho Joins American Century
An former LPL Head Honcho recently joined American Century in February...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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SEC Commish to Banking Regulators: Keep Your Failures Away From Asset Management
One of the regulator's five commissioners defends the mutual fund industry in his keynote address at ICI's 2015 Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference in the desert of California...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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A Colorado Public Utility Issues a 401k-457 RFP
A local water utility issues a two-plan RFP...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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ICI's Blass Sees Diamonds, Not Shadow Bankers
The mutual fund industry trade group's top legal voice, himself an SEC veteran, opens the 2015 MFIM conference with thoughts on the past and future of the now-75-year-old modern mutual fund industry...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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Two KPA Powerhouses Forge an Alliance
Two KPA powerhouses are partnering up to create a new platform!
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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MassMutual's Morabito Welcomes Six
As a way to boost support for retirement plan sponsors and financial advisors, MassMutual recently announced the appointment of six new relationship managers!..
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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Merrill's Thatch Switches Sides
A mutual fund giant hires the Merrill Lynch veteran...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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SSgA's New SPDR Catches Short-Term, High Yield Bonds
The Beantown bank's mutual fund arm launches a new fixed income ETF...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Ex-Victory CEO Joins Stadion's Board
A former chairman and CEO of Victory Capital Management is one of three additions to Stadion's board of directors...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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The PM of Henderson's $2.9B Flagship is Retiring
After more than 10 years, a $2.9B-fund's lead PM prepares to say goodbye...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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MassMutual Reorgs its TPA Channel
The Bay State provider says goodbye to two execs...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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A Producing TPA Buys a Texas Shop
A Lone Star State firm changes hands...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Castle Rock Benchmarks
The tech firm adds new tools to its 408(b)(2) data processing and reporting offering for B-Ds and RIAs...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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A Payroll Provider Debuts 401ks for Housekeepers
The new program is targeted at families with any type of domestic help...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Natixis' Hailer is a Good Guy
The Natixis exec will be honored by the Massachusetts Womens' Political Caucus at a luncheon today in Boston...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Reserve Primary's Collapse Still Haunts Schapiro
The SEC Chairman reiterates that she's not backing down over her new round of money fund regs...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Russell Unveils Two High Dividend Yield ETFs
The Seattle-based launched the two products yesterday and is working on launching a third high dividend yield offering...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Federated's Shares Recover as Donahue Fights
The money market mutual fund giant's share price is up more than 45 percent year-to-date...
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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401k Detractors Speak Out on Public Radio
One report aired today. Tune in tomorrow for another...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Insiders Help ASPPA Celebrate 10 Years of 401k Summits
Last week, advisors, providers and TPAs gathered in Las Vegas for the tenth anniversary of the trade group's hit conference...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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DWS Snags a First Eagle Exec
DWS has tapped a First Eagle Funds executive to head its brokerage distribution efforts...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Bishop Anoints a Mutual Fund Sales Chief
The Bay State start-up names a Fido and Morningstar alum to lead distribution...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Fidelity Targets Gen Y'ers with New Target-Date Fund
A new offering from Fidelity targets the younger crowd...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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A New Player Focuses on Asset Management M&A
A Jefferies alum starts an asset management group at another investment bank...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Fidelity Preps a 2055 Fund
Fido is looking to launch a retail target-date fund in early June...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Fidelity Will Pull the Plug on a Mass. Office
Fido is moving its 1,100 work force from one Bay State location...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Hartford Shuffles Gov't Sales Chiefs
Don MacQuattie is taking over where Scott Sanderson left off...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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An Advisor Sells His Book and Joins Transamerica
A retirement plan specialist switches sides to lead business development at a provider...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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OneAmerica Trumpets Sales Growth in 2010
The Indianapolis-based plan provider says it, too, made significant strides in its sales growth last year...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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New Hampshire and Rhode Island Lure Fido Jobs
The Boston Behemoth will close a big Bay State office next year and shift most jobs out of state...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Advisors See More Global Opportunities in 2020
A new Franklin Templeton survey says advisors are looking beyond the U.S. for opportunities in the near future...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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New Gov't Reports Will Shed Some Light on Securities Lending
A pair of government reports on securities lending will offer guidance on securities lending clearer for sponsors and participants...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Benefit Plans Plus Promotes Two
The plan administrator has ask two of its own to take on new responsibilities..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Financial Engines Goes Public
The retirement advice specialist has finally hit the stock market and is outperforming its IPO..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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BNY Mellon is Hiring Managers from Coast to Coast
The wealth management firm has already hired four in Boston and Pacific Northwest..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Top 40 Advisor: Paul Abendroth
This Toledo-based ex-Merrill advisor lands in the top 40 DC advisors as one of the ten finalists in the micro market...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Stumped by Social Media? Vanguard Offers Tips
Vanguard's Amy Dobra dishes out tips on navigating the social media landscape...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Pimco Creates Six New Bond ETFs
Pimco has filed five passively managed funds and one actively managed fund with the SEC..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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ETFs Rebound While Stock Funds Flop
Every other asset sector experiencing inflows, according to Morningstar..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Vanguard Explores New Territory with a Value Fund
The new fund is advised by three separate investment management firms..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Mutual of Omaha Installs a Guaranteed Income Plan
With a new 401(k) plan, the provider has taken steps to secure income throughout retirement...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Target-Date Funds Outperform Balanced Mutual Funds
A Morningstar study finds that target-date retirement funds might not be as bad as investors once thought..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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SPARK Unveils its Universal Retirement Plan
As a response to the auto-IRA bill, the institute has revealed their proposal to make it easy for small business to get retirement plans..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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FBR Closes a 5Star Deal
One fund company has absorbed another with the close of the deal, which will merge a number of mutual funds..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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ICI Asks FINRA for a Break
The lobby group says mutual funds need brokers staffing call centers..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Bruce Berkowitz Amasses AIG Stock, Debt
The award winning Fairholme Fund manager believes that AIG is headed back to the top..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Fidelity is Adding a Personal Touch
The firm's new service strategy is designed to lure independent financial advisors..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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T. Rowe Goes to Disney
The Baltimore-based fund firm is sponsoring an exhibit at Disney's Epcot Theme Park this spring.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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An Insurer Names its Retirement Chief as Streamlining Continues
The insurer taps an insider for the post...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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A Provider Vet Joins a California TPA
The new hire will handle sales in the Southwest as the firm begins a national push...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Janus Plans to Consolidate its Mutual Fund Lineup
The Denver firm plans to reorganize its funds this summer...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Fido Turns to a New Message
The Boston Behemoth unveils a new slogan with a new advertising campaign helmed by a Hollywood director...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Federated Unveils Three Clovers
The Pittsburgh-based investment manager rolls out three funds...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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MassMutual Touts its TPA Alliance Business Model
The Springfield, Massachusetts-based plan provider is conducting a WebEx presentation later this month in an effort to make TPAs and advisors aware of enhancements to its TPA alliance business model...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Reynolds Ups the Work Week
The Putnam chief will increase weekly hours for employees, starting later this spring...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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A Midwestern TPA Adds Three Wholesalers
A non-producing third party administrator expands its sales force...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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A New Lobbying Group Pushes Universal Retirement Plan Coverage
Four organizations join forces to create a new retirement-focused initiative...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Another ETF Player Retires its Funds But Stays in the Game
Six more exchange-traded funds will disappear by the end of the month, but their advisor may not be gone for good...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Benchmark Specialists Go Online
A DC startup takes it services onto the world wide web...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Allianz's New DC Sales Chief Hires Two
The Allianz executive recruits from Lincoln and Merrill Lynch...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Barclays Eyes Selling its Shares
Barclays tapped a UK investment bank to help find a buyer for its iShares business...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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The Reserve Will Empty Another Fund
The Manhattan money fund manager begins the final distribution for an offering...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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For One Global Fund, it's a Smaller World
A Loomis, Sayles & Co. global bond fund has become a lot less global these days, notes Emily Barrett in Monday's Wall Street Journal Fund Track column...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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JPMorgan was the Top-Selling Fund Family in the Past Year
JPMorgan's funds attracted $140 billion in new money in the 12 months ended February, the Financial Times reports...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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Auto-Plan Endgame?
Where are automatic enrollment, automatic escalation and default investments really taking the DC world? One advisor's response is a blast from the past.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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Mortality Pools Keep MetLife Moving Forward
MetLife's Garth Bernard says mortality pools will become popular with baby boomers...
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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Morningstar Takes a Break
After the stellar aquisition of Standard & Poor's fund data unit, Morningstar has decided it's time to focus on itself, at least for awhile...
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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Sponsor Flies Towards Auto
The PPA leads the trustees of a $6.8 billion plan to consider some new options.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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Two Become One
What do you get when you combine the NASD and New York Stock Exchange Member Regulation? Answer: The SRO! Today, Mary Schapiro, NASD Chairman and CEO let it be known that change is in the air. The reorganization will focus on the core areas of member regulation, enforcement, dispute resolution and technology. This is indeed an exciting time in the regulatory business...
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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Bisys Vet Converges on Consultant
A firm in the Land of 10,000 Lakes adds a retirement sales expert to its team.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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Getting a Legg Up
Legg Mason is putting the emphasis on structure in it's new $4 million advertising blitz. Having integrated and rebranded the money-management group it acquired from Citigroup Inc., Legg is looking to promote a better understanding of what they all about. The new effort comes as a response to a study that indicated that people just didn't understand Legg Mason's structure or the various companies that make up the organization according to Tuesdays' Fund Track column in the WSJ..
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SEC Veteran Crosses Border to the ICI
The ICI stamped Susan Olsen's visa today. She crosses the public/private border from the SEC and will act as the trade group's senior counsel — International Affairs. Olsen will be the senior counsel on a variety of global issues that face US mutual finds. Olsen will also lead the companies efforts to comply with anti-money laundering regulations...
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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22c-2 Looms: Is the Industry Prepared?
A new survey from an industry trade group finds that most providers believe they'll be prepared by the deadline next month, but they still aren't ready yet.
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Sales Shuffle at MFS
The retirement unit now wholly owned by Sun Life says goodbye to its national sales manager and says hello to a new one.
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Revere Leads Merrill's New England Push
Merrill Lynch opens it's seventh private banking office. The Boston location is staffed with 32 professionals to serve the needs of to wealthy clients. The Boston Globe can tell you how to get in on the action...
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Will Your Name be Connected to Shame?
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif. and Barney Frank, D-Mass.,have introduced legislation that will force companies to keep a strict inventory of their investments according to Dow Jones. The legislation, nicknamed "name and shame" would of course publicly name companies who have invested in Iran in an effort to cut off econmic relations. It just got trickier to be an investor...
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Know Your Blogs
Blogs the next big thing? Ignites reports that they may just be (and we at MFWire.com hope that they are correct). Kasina's Conrad Bakker and Dalbar’s Kathleen Whalen both weigh in on the debate of whether fund firms benefit from blogging. Note kasina has its own blog...
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Barclays Launches iShares Lehman-Backed ETF
Barclays Global Investors announced today that iShares Lehman MBS Fixed-Rate Bond Fund began trading on the American Stock Exchange. This extends the choices ETF investors have with fixed income asset classes.
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Many Funds May Prefer the Atkins Plan
Fund firms who are fighting the indy chair rule have an ally in SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins, according to this morning's WSJ Fund Track column. Campos, meanwhile, sits on the other side of the table. In the background The Independent Directors Council sides with Atkins while the Mutual Fund Directors Forum, Morningstar and investor activist groups such as Fund Democracy and Consumer Federation of America take the Campos side...
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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Principal Taps Sales Head for TPA Channel
The insurer says the hire of a Fidelity veteran shows its commitment to the TPA distribution channel...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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DAC Completes Expansion of Sales Network for 2006
As promised, the company further extends its sales team with two more regional retirement consultants...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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Schwab Managed Retirement Trust Fund Assets Top $1B
The age-based collective trust funds attracted over $1 billion of assets in just over three years...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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BofA is Losing IRS Fight
The IRS says that 401k plan provisions allowing voluntary transfers from the bank's DB plan violated anticutback rules...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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Bear Stearns Settles With Regulators
It's official: Bear Stearns will plunk down $250 million to settle regulatory allegations that it facilitated improper mutual fund trading practices...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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T. Rowe Price's Roche To Retire
The firm announces upcoming shifts that will complete its cycle of management transitions...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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Vantagepoint IRA Broadens Horizons
Twenty-one new funds give its public sector clients a much expanded range of choices...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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American Funds To Battle NASD
American Funds is taking the road less traveled. Next week, the Los Angeles-based mutual fund firm will challenge accusations brought by the NASD that it improperly steered directed commissions to top producing brokerages...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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NYLIM Inks Wirehouse Deal
The insurer's DB-DC plan will get new distribution...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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House Committee Passes Bill Banning Contractual Funds
The House Committee on Financial Services voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that would make contractual mutual fund sales illegal. H.R. 458, the Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act, bans contractual sales, clarifies State insurance commissioners' jurisdiction over military bases, and requires the federal government to provide information to military personnel before the sale of insurance products .....
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Fido Creates Non-Fund Asset Management Biz
Fidelity Investments announced Wednesday that it is in the process of creating a separate, non-mutual fund operation to focus exclusively on large corporate plan and institutional business. The business will eventually have a separate investment management and distribution capabilities, according to the release...
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Fido to Create Institutional-Only Ops
The firm is currently looking to staff the operation...
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Portland Fund Firm Intros No-Fee IRA
IMS Capital Management, the advisor to the IMS Family of Funds, is introducing a no fee IRA. Although the IMS Capital previously offered an IRA for a $15 custodial fee, IMS will pay for customers' no-fee IRA custodial costs. The IRA is available for investors with at least $2,000, and will likely increase to $5,000 by the end of the year...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Portland Fund Firm Intros No-Fee IRA
The firm will pay for custodial fees out of its own pocket...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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AEFA Hires Strategy Pro
AERS' parent nabs an executive from the management consulting industry...
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Sentinel Management's CEO to Head Fund Group
Christian Thwaites, who was recently appointed head of the Sentinel Management and NL Capital Management, will now also head Sentinel Funds .....
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Putnam Airs Rare Mainstream Ads
Putnam Investments has launched a rare mainstream advertising campaign putting the spotlight on the company's founder, George Putnam...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Pioneer Gives Wholesalers Wireless Data
Pioneer Investment Management has chosen software maker Pyxis' platform to provide wireless data to its wholesalers. Pioneer's wholesalers can now access sales, product and customer data using BlackBerry devices.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Jersey AG Targets Former Merrill Brokers
Merrill Lynch may have settled trading abuse charges with regulators for $13.5 million, but now the former brokers are under fire...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Schwab Sues TD Waterhouse
Charles Schwab Corp. is serious, this time. The brokerage has slapped a lawsuit against TD Waterhouse alleging that the competitor's advertising is "deceptive, misleading and patently false."..
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Mellon Sells HR Biz for $445 MM
The recordkeeping giant fails to get its price on the sale of its retirement businesses...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Buffett Joins the Fund Industry
Oh the irony. Less than two weeks after critiquing fund directors Warren Buffett has become a minority partner in a fund advisor...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Nationwide Coaches 401k Sales Pros
The provider has signed on a 401(k) sales coach to provide business-building tips to intermediaries...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Newkirk Taps Sales Veep
A new executive will oversee business development for MasteryPoint...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Is Your Plan Orange, Red or Green?
A provider creates a new scale on which sponsors can grade their plan. Calls for providers to assume co-fiduciary role...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Pru Offers Bridge to Social Security
Prudential Retirement offers participants who retire early a way to bridge the gap until they collect Social Security...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Putnam Faces Up to 60 Suits
The cases include those brought by retail investors and participants in its defined contribution plans. It also reveals no fewer than six investigations into its practices...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Congressional Quintet Supports Independent Director Rule
Among those throwing their support to SEC Chair Donaldson are Oxley and Baker...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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State Street Chiefs See Bonus Cuts
The top executives still received raises bettering the inflation rate...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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MFS Joins Fido in Call to End Soft Dollars
By changing how they pay for trades the funds can increase transparency...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Mutuals.com Charges Represent New Chapter
By bringing criminal fraud charges against Mutuals.com executives the US Attorney is casting the funds as the victim rather than the culprit...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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What is the Future of 401k?
Larry Zimpleman of Principal Financial shares his outlook for the industry with plan sponsors in San Fran...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Fund Company Picks CitiStreet
West Coast fund firm reallocates 401k biz...
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Daily Access Hires Sales Manager
Firm taps Gallagher for Western region exec...
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Friday, March 16, 2001
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Bank of NY Pals Up with Mickey
The Big Apple bank is getting digs near the legendary mouse...
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Friday, March 16, 2001
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Who Put Value in My Tax Managed?
Fund firm puts together two great tastes that taste great together...
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Friday, March 16, 2001
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CitiStreet Retreads Plan in Arizona
Tire discounter makes tracks for the Citi...
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Oak to Open New Sector Fund
Boutique firm slates new variety of quercus for later this year...
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Friday, March 16, 2001
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Dreyfus to Shutter Fund
Dreyfus to Shutter Fund ... Money Markets See-Saw ... Lincoln Re-Org Finalized ... SEI to Treble Stock Repurchase..
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Friday, March 16, 2001
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Dreyfus to Shutter Fund
Dreyfus to Shutter Fund ... Money Markets See-Saw ... Lincoln Re-Org Finalized ... SEI to Treble Stock Repurchase..
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NYLB Casts New Deal
A Cincinnatti foundry takes the plunge with NYLB...
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Friday, March 16, 2001
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T. Rowe Price Teams Up With mPower
Participants will now have access to online advice...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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Quick Exit Fee
Those who wish to make a quick exit from Alleghany's international funds are going to be hit with a heavy redemption fee...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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Size Matters
Hartford will lower fees as plan assets increase...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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Scare Their Pants Off
It seems that a good way to get employees to save for their retirement is to use scare tactics concerning what they may not have in their accounts...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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PIMCO Appointment
The West Coast firm has a new exec for its stable value unit...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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WM Advisors Names CIO
Washington Mutual's WM Group of Funds has named a new chief investment officer...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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INVESCO Funds Added to TRAK
Six of Denver's INVESCO Funds will be added to the Solomon Smith Barney TRAK program, its personalized investment advisory service...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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Odd Lots, March 16, 2000
Fido follies ... The taxman discloseth ... Small funds loom large ... Merrill on the move...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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Odd Lots, March 16, 2000
Fido follies ... The taxman discloseth ... Small funds loom large ... Merrill on the move...
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Schwab and the Individual Investor
The California Colossus' new service offers individuals the opportunity to receive complete portfolio assistance, including help with their 401(k) plans...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
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Datex-Ohmeda Bundles with New Vendor
Tewksbury, Massachusetts-headquartered Datex-Ohmeda, Inc., a subsidiary of Instrumentarium Corporation (Nasdaq: INMRY) of Finland, has selected American Express Retirement Services (AERS) to be the bundled provider for its defined contribution plan. ..
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Tuesday, March 16, 1999
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MassMutual's Educational Site Now Up and Running
As the 401kWire.com reported in December 1998, MassMutual Retirement Services was in the final stages of developing its online educational service for participants. The system, called Journey, is now live and ready for action...
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Tuesday, March 16, 1999
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The Internet Fund Runs Out of Shares
The red-hot Internet Fund has sold all of the shares that it is allowed to sell, forcing it to close ... for now...
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Tuesday, March 16, 1999
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Machinists Can Now Invest in Their Own
Participants with a desire to support union friendly companies now have an additional opportunity to invest their retirement plan savings. SSgA Funds has introduced the IAM SHARES Fund, one of the first mutual funds to invest primarily in publicly-traded shares of International Association of Machinists (IAM)-represented companies. The fund will be immediately available to all levels of defined contribution plans at IAM-represented companies and to the defined benefit plans of those companies later this year...
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Tuesday, March 16, 1999
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SSgA Fund Launches Union Friendly Fund
State Street targets AFL-CIO's biggest union with its new IAM SHARES fund...
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Tuesday, March 16, 1999
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Odd Lots, March 16, 1999
How is Putnam selling its way to No. 2? ... Davis NY Venture fund manager is feeling left out ... Will the new Fleet Boston Corp. be considering other mergers? ... Debunking six mutual fund myths...
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Tuesday, March 16, 1999
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TAG On: 401ks for Foreign Nationals
I am looking for advice on 401(k) with respect to foreign nationals living & working in the US on non-immigrant and immigrant visas. Specifically, I’m trying to determine what restrictions, if any, apply. Could you direct me to a source of such specialist advice?..
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Tuesday, March 16, 1999
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Providers Make Joint Bid for LA Municipal Plan
Hartford Life Insurance Co., American Express Retirement Services, and Charles Schwab & Co have made a joint bid last week for the soon-to-be restructured $1 billion 457 plan covering Los Angeles' municipal employees. Hartford Life is currently one of two providers to the plan, which uses the insurer's DCPlus 457 Deferred Compensation program...
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Monday, March 16, 1998
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