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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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DWS Scudder Hires Four for Distribution Team
The new recruits join DWS Scudder's financial advisor division...
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Monday, January 28, 2008
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OppFunds Fills Four Newly Created Senior Posts
Philipp Hensler brings in new chief to run strategic accounts for the Big Apple mutual fund firm...
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Thursday, August 05, 2010
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A Van Kampen Sales Vet Lands at DWS
DWS signs on the 13-year Van Kampen veteran as national sales manager...
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Friday, December 04, 2009
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Reader Rating: 1
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BlackRock Hires an Ex-DWS Sales Exec
The former national sales manager for the financial advisor division at DWS is now at BlackRock...
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Friday, November 20, 2009
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A Sales Pro Returns to DWS
After spending a year at another firm, the longtime wholesaler rejoins the Deutsche Bank unit...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
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DWS's Top Marketer Jumps to a Rival Firm
The exec is heading to OppenheimerFunds...
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Monday, August 09, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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Esposito Plots His Post-Aberdeen Plans
The fund firm's CEO is prepping for life after Aberdeen and changes created by that fund firm's reversal of course...
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Friday, July 31, 2009
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Reader Rating: 3
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Fund Companies Get Gold Stars
John Hancock bagged two of the top awards at the 13th annual STAR awards. Fidelity, Vanguard and Ariel were among the others who took home prizes...
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Monday, October 26, 2009
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UPDATE 1 | Done Deal: San Fran Fund Shop Steps Forward to Gain Sales Access
The Getty-backed fund shop has inked a deal to place another two dozen funds under its umbrella...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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Invesco Hires an RIA Wholesaler
Andrew Scherer brings in a DWS alum...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
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Reader Rating: 2
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Pioneer Hires an Ex-DWS Exec
The Boston fund firm hired the former head of national accounts at DWS Investments as part of changes it is making in its sales team...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
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DWS Bids Auf Wiedersehen to Hensler
The top executive at DWS Investments' distribution arm has left the firm...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Reader Rating: 5
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Hensler Heads to OppFunds
Oppenheimer fills the empty head of distribution position..
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Vanguard and Fido are the Stars, So Where Does Your Fund Firm Rank in Growth Potential?
Cogent Research has applied its predictive model to fund firms to tease out which funds will be tomorrow's Stars, Leaders, Players or Drifters, based on their growth potential...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
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Reader Rating: 5
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DWS Hires a Bear Stearns Alum
DWS taps a former Bear Stearns sales executive as senior national account manager...
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Friday, December 11, 2009
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DWS is Close to Revealing its Pick for National Sales Manager
The firm plans to announce its choice next month, says DWS' top distribution executive...
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Monday, November 23, 2009
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BlackRock's Web Site is Tops among its Peers
Kasina revealed the results of its study on asset managers' intermediary-focused Web sites...
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Monday, December 07, 2009
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Reader Rating: 3
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DWS Scudder Adds Fund-of Funds
DWS Scudder has introduced a new fund-of-funds, christened the DWS Alternative Asset Allocation Plus Fund...
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Monday, August 06, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.33
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Pioneer Brings Burke on Board
Thom Jones hires the DWS alum for a VP post in the wealth management channel...
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Friday, August 06, 2010
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A Senior Distribution Exec Moves to the River
The former president of DWS Investments Distributors joins a new asset management firm...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Winnick Lands a New Gig Across the River
Tom Winnick, a former president of DWS Distributors, has left RiverPark Capital...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Fund Firms Need to Help Advisors Reach Women
Corporate Insight report determines few fund firms have proper educational materials for advisors...
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Friday, October 23, 2009
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Alger Recruits a DWS Alum to Work With B-Ds
The New York-based mutual fund firm adds to its national accounts team...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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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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Two Regional Sales Execs Join Schroders
The New York-based asset manager just unveiled new hires for institutional and intermediary sales teams...
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Monday, June 09, 2008
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ICI Urges the SEC to Sink the Floating NAV Proposal
The mutual fund industry trade group blasts the SEC proposal that would require money funds to adopt a floating NAV...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
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Coming Up This Month: A CEO Change, an Awards Night
Here's a roundup of what's happening in the mutual fund world this month...
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Monday, March 01, 2010
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Hancock Brings in a DWS Alum
The Boston-based mutual fund firm names its choice for a newly created position...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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OppFunds Lures a Growth Fund Vet
The company hires a former DWS portfolio manager for one of its own mutual funds...
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Monday, April 26, 2010
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SmartMoney Names Fund Turkeys
Fidelity and Legg Mason have the most equity funds on this year's list...
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Friday, November 28, 2008
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DWS Hires a DC Industry Vet
DWS Investments taps the JPMorgan and OppenheimerFunds alum for a national accounts post...
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Friday, February 26, 2010
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Aberdeen Names US Mutual Fund Chief
London-based Aberdeen Asset Management has named a former Scudder exec to head its U.S. mutual fund business...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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DWS Preps a Variable NAV Money Fund
The asset management arm of the German bank has filed papers with the SEC to launch a money fund with a floating NAV...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
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DWS Scudder Taps a New Director for its Financial Institutions Group
The firm has hired a senior exec from Ziegler Capital Management.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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Another Evergreen Exec Departs
The exec has left Wachovia's investment management arm to become national sales manager of a New York City-based fund firm...
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Monday, August 04, 2008
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PM Changes: BlackRock, SunAmerica, DWS
BlackRock adds a PM to a five star fund ... SunAmerica makes a change on the team managing its International Equity Fund ... and more...
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Monday, July 19, 2010
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Are Target Date Funds Getting Cheaper?
Morningstar issues reports on 20 target date fund families...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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DWS Plans to Ax B Shares
The New York City-based fund firm has added itself to the list of companies that are scrapping the share class...
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Friday, December 04, 2009
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DWS' Move Puts Dreman's Hoover in Charge
The Deutsche-owned mutual fund has a new subadvisor in a bid for better performance...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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DWS Replaces a Fund's Subadvisor of 21 Years
Deutsche Investment Management Americas will take over advisory duties for the fund...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
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DWS Picks an I-O Chief
The asset management arm of Deutsche Bank draws from within its ranks for the post...
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Monday, November 23, 2009
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Reader Rating: 4.2
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RiverPark Ramps Up its Active ETF Push
The New York City-based firm is ramping up efforts to educate advisors on active ETFs...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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A STAR (Fund Company) is Born
The Mutual Fund Education Alliance has announced the winners of its 2007 STAR Awards for Excellence in Shareholder Communications...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
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DWS Cuts Fees and Break Points
Fund firm aims to appeal to value wary investors in light of recent market turbulence...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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Reader Rating: 5
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Vanguard Tops Target-Date Ratings
Morningstar on Wednesday unveiled the results of its evaluation of the 20 largest target-date fund providers...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
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Reader Rating: 3
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WSJ Looks at Funds Worst Hit by the Financial Debacle
The pub looks at the funds that held tight to troubled financials to their detriment...
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Friday, October 17, 2008
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Aston and DWS Make Moves: Two Funds Reopen, Two Liquidate
The pain of 2008 pushes two fund sponsors to move four funds in opposite strategic directions...
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Friday, January 09, 2009
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15 DWS Scudder Hires Will Build Advisor Network
As part of a sustained effort to build up relationships with advisors nationwide, DWS Scudder has added 15 new hires to its staff of sales professionals. The firm announced the appointments on Monday...
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Monday, May 08, 2006
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DWS Scudder Going Green
DWS Scudder has launched a climate change-related fund...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2
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Fidelity Collects More Awards
The Boston behemoth is still the firm to beat...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
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Reader Rating: 5
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DWS Targets ETFs for its Target Lineup
Starting May, six Target funds intend to invest the equity portion mainly in ETFs...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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Product Development Steals the Spotlight at NICSA
Nothing is more essential to a fund company than the products it offers...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Reader Rating: 5
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A Legendary Fund Manager Talks about the Loss of a Key Mandate
A fund manager speaks to the New York Times and Bloomberg in the wake of the decision to remove him as manager of a $2.2 billion fund...
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Monday, April 13, 2009
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ADP Eyes Additions to its Sales Team
The executive in charge of the Roseland, New Jersey-based provider is looking to expand the sales force in the next four months...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
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Reader Rating: 3.67
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Three Fund Firms Take Home MStar Top Steward Kudos
The Chicago-based firm praises three fund companies for becoming more shareholder-friendly...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Reader Rating: 2
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More Fund Firms Hop on the Retirement Income Bandwagon
Shefali Anand spotlights retirement income funds in the monthly Investing in Funds section of the WSJ...
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Monday, June 02, 2008
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Jaffe Lists Objects of Holiday Jeers among Fundsters
Marketwatch columnist Chuck Jaffe unveils his 13th annual Lump of Coal Awards...
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Monday, December 15, 2008
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Why Did DWS LifeCompass Income Lose Its Way?
WSJ writer Tom Lauricella looks at the ups and downs of some new target date funds...
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Monday, July 06, 2009
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Scudder Continues to Do Live Ads For its Climate Fund
First snow in Beverly Hills, now a jungle near Wall Street ... DWS Scudder continues the climate change road show to promote its Climate Fund...
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Monday, February 11, 2008
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Reader Rating: 5
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AufWiedersehen, Scudder
DWS Scudder is rebranding again...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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DWS Says AufWiedersehen to Three Funds
DWS plans to liquidate three funds in June...
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Friday, March 27, 2009
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Arrow Releases its Third Mutual Fund
The Olney, Maryland-based firm rolls out a fund subadvised by Dorsey Wright and Associates...
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Monday, June 02, 2008
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Reader Rating: 4.78
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More Fannie and Freddie Bets Draw Headlines
The WSJ Fund Track shines a spotlight on the stock pickers who made the biggest bets on stock in the two GSEs...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Is Scudder Going the Way of Kemper?
Another of the fund industry's stately and well-known names is fading from the market place. This week Deutsche Bank Asset Management said that it is rebranding its mutual fund business to reflect its global strategy...
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Thursday, February 02, 2006
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Snow in L.A.? Blame DWS Scudder
Competition in the mutual fund market and the proliferation of other green funds has led fund companies to do some wacky things to stand out in the crowd...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
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Fund Firms Take Costly Steps to Break Shareholder Inertia
In the Monday edition of the WSJ Fund Track column, Daisy Maxey looks at how asset managers are attempting to catch shareholder attention...
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Monday, May 19, 2008
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Hedge-Like Strategies Failing Some Mutual Funds
Mutual funds with hedge-like characteristics, which are theoretically designed to protect investors when markets take a dive, may not be living up to their billing...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Reader Rating: 4
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A DWS Portfolio Team Exits the Company
Six members of DWS Investments have left the company...
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Monday, August 25, 2008
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A Baltimore Firm Loses Sub-Advisory Mandates
The housing crisis has cost another sub-advisor its mandates...
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Monday, March 31, 2008
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Scudder Settles Directed Brokerage Case
Deutsche Asset Manangement (DeAM) has paid $19.3 million to settle a directed brokerage case brought by the SEC and the NASD against the bank's Scudder fund unit. The payments include $14.2 million of disgorgement of gains, $2.1 million of interest and a $3 million penalty. DeAM now operates the fund arm under the DWS Scudder brand...
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Friday, September 29, 2006
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WSJ Takes a Look at Which Long-Short Funds Flourished and Faltered
In today's Wall Street Journal Fund Track column, Shefali Anand extended cheers and jeers to long-short funds...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3.33
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Dreman Reportedly Cuts Staff
The Jersey City-based firm run by legendary fund manager David Dreman has reportedly trimmed 20 percent of its workforce...
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Friday, May 01, 2009
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BlackRock, DWS and Others Gain More DC Distribution
A Midwestern provider adds products from four investment firms to its platform...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Reader Rating: 2.5
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A DB Unit Partners Up to Boost Transparency of Money Fund Reporting
Deutsche Bank's global institutional asset management unit has tapped a partner in an effort to increase transparency of its money market fund reporting...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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DeAM Brings European Manager to American Investors
The folks at Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) are continuing the turnaround attempt at DWS Scudder by adding to more funds to their complex. On Friday the firm opened an international value fund and a global REIT fund to investors. Axel Schwarzer, chief executive officer of DWS Scudder, said that the two funds are part of an effort to bring the German bank's global investment expertise to investors in the United States...
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Friday, July 21, 2006
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Southern State Dumps 529 Manager
The freshly opened RFP could be good news for TIAA-CREF and Vanguard.
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Monday, May 21, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.75
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DWS Scudder Grows Retirement Sales Force
DWS Scudder has tapped a trio of new hires focusing on the retirement market for its mutual fund division...
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Thursday, July 06, 2006
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Reader Rating: 2
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DeAM Taps Director to Be Climate Czar
Deutsche Bank Asset Management has tapped Mark Fulton to the new role of climate change strategist...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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WSJ Gives More on Scudder's Disappearance
The Wall Street paper picks up on the Deutsche Bank's decision reported here on Wednesday to drop Scudder from its brand...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
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A Switch and a Merger Headline Morningstar Round-up
A portfolio manager change at BlackRock and fund combination at DWS Scudder headline the latest round-up...
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Friday, May 30, 2008
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DWS Scudder Bond Pros Pack for the Big Apple
Deutsche Bank is moving its fund managers from an old Scudder office in Philadelphia. The portfolio management team from three DWS Scudder fixed income funds are being relocated to New York City as part of an ongoing consolidation of its fund business. The move will cover twenty employees...
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Friday, August 11, 2006
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Fund Firms Gain Good, Bad Target Date Ink in the WSJ
2010 fund losses continue to snag attention...
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Monday, January 12, 2009
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Scudder Skipper Gets WSJ Spotlight
The Friday edition of the Wall Street Journal column features DWS Scudder portfolio manager Oliver Kratz.
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Friday, June 06, 2008
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DeAM's Top Dog Continues Shakeup
Kevin Parker, the head of Deutsche Asset Management, is continuing to make changes to DeAM's executive suite...
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Thursday, March 10, 2005
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Deutsche Piles On More Distribution Muscle
Let's hope Deutsche Asset Management has stocked up on name tags for all the new faces at its U.S. mutual fund company, DWS Scudder...
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Thursday, July 06, 2006
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Comerica Puts Partners Forward
The bank is repositioning itself with clients as it adopts what may be the next model for retirement plan distributors...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
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Schlichter Plaintiff Tied to Shooting Rampage as Fee Suit Trial Begins
One of the participants suing both a giant plan sponsor and Fidelity reportedly kills three co-workers and shoots five others before ending his own life...
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Friday, January 08, 2010
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Reader Rating: 1.5
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Wachovia Grabs Five Golds at PSCA Awards
The Charlotte-based plan provider emerged as the winningest firm at the PSCA Awards last week...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
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DWS Takes on Fee Transparency
A new report from the fund firm will help plan sponsors understand expenses...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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November 17, 2000
SoGen Seeks US Manager ... Deutsche Readies Active ETFs ... Craig Gets $78 Million for Janus Stock ... Funds Raise Cash...
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Friday, November 17, 2000
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Reader Rating: 3
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DWS Scudder to Grow its Collective Trust Menu
The mutual fund arm of Deutsche Asset Management also plans to send fee transparency statements to plan sponsors next month...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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DWS Scudder Spruces Up Plan Sponsor Site
Enhancements include a fiduciary toolkit section and a library of articles...
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Monday, February 05, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.75
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August 16, 2000
Nvest execs set for $200 million windfall ... UBS sharpens the axe ... Germany's Weisenhorn opens shop ... Financial-services funds are back...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2000
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Reader Rating: 3
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Schwab Adds More Funds for TPAs
The San Francisco-based firm has added 14 fund families to its platform for plan administrators...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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Reader Rating: 3.67
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DWS Scudder Adds Managed Accounts from Morningstar
The firm has widened its DC investment advisory services...
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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Reader Rating: 2
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August 16, 2000
Nvest execs set for $200 million windfall ... UBS sharpens the axe ... Germany's Weisenhorn opens shop ... Financial-services funds are back...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2000
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Reader Rating: 3
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DWS Brings in Brooks
DWS Investments formally announced on Tuesday what The 401kWire reported on last month...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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Reader Rating: 3
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DWS Scudder Intros a Plan Check-Up Tool
The firm has launched a tool aimed at helping plan sponsors and advisors evaluate the effectiveness of DC plans...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
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