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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Ubiquity Teams Up In South Carolina
The San Fran RKer's team lands a partnership with a Palmetto State bookkeeping and accounting ally to owners of franchises and other small businesses...
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Friday, November 15, 2024
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And the Winner of the 2024 RAC Runoff Is ...
A VP at Corebridge will take a board next year at the trade group...
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Friday, November 15, 2024
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With a New Ally, Principal Plans Two Ret Income Solutions, And ...
The folks at a publicly traded insurer's bundled retirement plan provider arm are teaming up with a DC retirement income specialist to build 2 more TDF series and add another. Watch for the provider's team to partner with other retirement income allies soon, too...
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Friday, November 15, 2024
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Building Legacy Is Wicked Cool. Here, Have Some Bublé!
Updated | Ron Baron and his team, together with more than 5,000 clients and FAs, converged on Lincoln Center yet again today...
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Friday, November 15, 2024
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Newport Shuts Down Three of Its OG PEPs
All of the shuttering pooled employer plans debuted on the day the PEP space began: January 1, 2021...
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Friday, November 15, 2024
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Did a $746B-AUM AM Integrate ESG Firmwide? SEC Cries Foul
A unit of a publicly traded, multinational fund firm has agreed to pay a $17.5-million civil penalty to end the case, without admitting or denying the allegations...
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Friday, November 15, 2024
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A Gotham Shop's New ETF Combines Stocks and Another Fund
The new fund debuted on Monday and has about $2.5 million in AUM...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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In CO, an RIA Preps a 403b PEP
The new PEP's planned launch is on December 10...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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An Atlanta Industry Vet Joins DFA's Institutional Team
The new hire most recently worked at USICG...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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Kmak Promises Monthly Thought Leadership
The Fiduciary Decisions chief launches a new series for sharing data-focused takes on key retirement plan industry issues...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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10 Years, $1.28B In AUM
A small-cap growth stock fund crosses a big milestone...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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An RKer's New CSO Targets Sustainable Growth
An officially promoted MissionSquare employee shares his plans for the near future...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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Large Firms Dominate October Outflows
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for October 2022 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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A Trade Group's Research Arm Brings In Consultants, KPAs, and Plan Sponsors
A number of firms are joining new councils to support the research effort...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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Six Years Later, an Empower Alum Returns to Voya
The executive also previously worked with Webster Bank and John Hancock...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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As a Talent Retention Tool, How Does the 401k Compare?
New research suggests that retirement plans are nearly as powerful as salary and scheduling flexibility when it comes to keeping workers...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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50 Years, $10B In AUM, and 11 Funds
A Gotham boutique's team is celebrating a big anniversary...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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Post-Election, Are Retirement Plans ESG's "Last Frontier?"
What do the mid-term elections mean for investing according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) principals? A panel weighs in...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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Titans Add $842B In One Month
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for October 2021 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Monday, November 15, 2021
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41,346 DC Plans, 10.7MM Participants, and Counting
This publicly traded retirement plan provider added 2,661 DC plans in the past 12 months...
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Monday, November 15, 2021
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A Garden State Sales Vet Joins IPS
He most recently worked with a firm that was acquired last fall...
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Monday, November 15, 2021
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A Sunshine State TPA Joins an Alliance
Updated | The firm is the 12th member of the group, which launched earlier this year...
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Monday, November 15, 2021
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Reader Rating: 5
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Week In Preview, November 15 - November 21
This week, the teams at DCIIA, Faegre Drinker, Fi360, Hub, LeafHouse, RPAG, T. Rowe Price, and Voya are hosting events...
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Monday, November 15, 2021
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Week In Preview, November 15 - November 21
This week, the teams at MFDF, Samfund, Sondhelm Partners, T. Rowe Price, and UMB are hosting events...
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Monday, November 15, 2021
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Ferguson Anoints Nuveen's Next Chief, But ...
In two months, a familiar face will take over TIAA's giant asset management arm...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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Is Ascensus Poised to Buy a Nine-Office TPA?
The team at the private equity-backed recordkeeper may be close to making their third big acquisition of 2019...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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Reader Rating: 4
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One Titan's Passive Inflows Double
The M* team updates flows data for October 2019 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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Participants Continue to Move Into Fixed Income
Data continues to show large 401(k) plans' participants are moving money into stable value, bond, and money market funds...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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An RKer's Participant Count Climbs Six Percent
A provider increases its corporate retirement plan participant count by 200,000 in a month and by 110,000 in a year...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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401k Balances and Trading Dipped in Q3
Recent market volatility balances in 401(k)s, IRAs, and 403(b)s...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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A $615B-AUM AM's Chief Splits the Reins
The multinational's dual leadership handoff is scheduled for January 1...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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Five Step Up As a Callan Practice Leader Exits
After thirteen years, an exec has left the San Francisco-based consulting firm and moved on to independent consulting...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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Reader Rating: 5
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Three Ways to Improve Your Visibility
A former financial advisor data entrepreneur shares ideas to help FAs be found better...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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After Six Years, a Top Marketer Exits Pimco
There's no official word yet on how the exec's duties will be handled...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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An ERISA Vet Leaves a $23.1B Asset Manager
Now she's consulting with other providers and more...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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Schwab's Participant Count Rises Five Percent in 12 Months
Schwab's plan participant count only feel in one month out of the last 12...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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An ABG Shop Transforms Models Into CIFs
An RKing TPA teams up to launch a series of risk-based funds...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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Reader Rating: 5
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Most Employed Voters Trust In Employer-Provided Retirement
Nearly half of voters trust employer-provided options for secure retirement...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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Macquarie vs Pimco, On Ice!
The teams at two asset managers compete while raising money for three veterans-focused charities...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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Most Pre-Retirees Get Roth and RMDs Right
A new survey by Nationwide shows that although younger employees are more knowledgable about their retirement options, everyone can still use some advice. ..
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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Would Rothification Upend the 401k Industry?
A think tank digs into the implications of the Rothification threat looming over the defined contribution business...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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Witz Ramps Up His Online Training System
The PlanTools chief teams up with an ERISA legal eagle on a customizable offering...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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Walt, Unscripted
The CEO of Charles Schwab takes the stage in a Q&A-only keynote session at Impact 2017...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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Reader Rating: 5
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Graff Wins Over a Fifth Retirement Trade Group
ASPPA and NAPA welcome another organization to the ARA fold...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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T. Rowe Price PMs Look Ahead to 2018
The Baltimore-based asset manager hosts reporters in New York City...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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A $500MM AUA KPA Predicts a 2018 Expansion
This East Coast-based advisor teamed up with GRP earlier this year...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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Reader Rating: 5
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Impact, Day 2 — Talking to Walt
Yesterday in the Windy City the Schwab team kicked off their giant annual conference for RIAs and their allies...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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A Gamco Affiliate Buys a Midwestern Fund Firm
A Beantown private equity shop sells a Chitown mutual fund firm to a Gotham area boutique...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Charles Schwab Survey Finds 401k Outlook Varies
Men and Women have widely different feelings of confidence for retirement.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Reader Rating: 4
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Lincoln Adds Three Industry Vets
The hires bulk up the firm's relationship management team and retirement plan services. ..
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Reader Rating: 2
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Reynolds' $65MM Putnam Shake Up
The mutual fund shop's chief makes some leadership changes and reduces headcount. Meanwhile, the chief of Putnam's Canadian parent expresses confidence in Putnam's prospects "under the leadership of Putnam CEO Bob Reynolds and his management team."..
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Reader Rating: 4
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Filings for Fundsters - November 15, 2016
A compilation of the latest SEC filings!..
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Edward Jones Hit with ERISA Suit
Two former employees filed the complaint over fees charged. ..
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Reader Rating: 5
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Private Equity Head Troubled By Low 401k Savings
After shocking findings of low savings, this billionaire wants to help Americans plan for retirement. ..
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Reader Rating: 3
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White Out
Updated | The SEC chief will leave office when Obama does. And Trump reportedly has a former SEC Commissioner on the job of finding a successor...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Manulife Asset Management Prioritizes U.S. Retirement
CEO highlights Digital Advice as a strategic focus for the firm...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Reader Rating: 3
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Nuveen Names a New Institutions Honcho
Exec will lead team that will customize strategies for institutional clients...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Altegris Shifts to High Gear
Alts manager aiming for a number of new product launches in the coming months...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Reader Rating: 3
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An Invesco Exec Divests Nearly $5MM
Senior managing director sells off 150,000 shares...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Reader Rating: 1
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Miller Fills Out Pimco's DC Key Accounts Force
The fixed income titan's retirement chief hires from within...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Nelson Peltz Withdraws
Activist investor's Trian Fund sells off holdings in State Street...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Higher-Ed Leaders Tout DC at a TIAA-CREF Summit
Leaders in the higher-education realm discuss retirement, particularly the benefits of DC over DB, at a TIAA-CREF summit. ..
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Bogle Talks to Motley Fool
Vanguard's founder explains why there is no Lake Wobegon in the investing community...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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PwC Maps Out Five ETF Speed Traps
Barron's looks at some of the conclusions of the PwC report...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Pete Kirtland is on an Aspire Hiring Spree
He may have bid farewell to Lou Bachetti and Forrest Wilson, but he's also welcomed Gary Crane and Derek A'hara. ..
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Reader Rating: 5
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Yellen Will Keep Spigot Open, for Now
In her first appearance before the Senate, the Fed nominee popped rumors about bubbles and tapers...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Ron Baron Paid Barbra What to Sing!?
Never doubt Baron's dedication to his shareholder events...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Reader Rating: 3
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BlackRock Pushes ETFs to Banks
Fund goliath sees promise in regional and community institutions...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
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AQR's Asness Sings a Song About Risk
AQR Founder says investors need to think more precisely about risk...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Bluff Point Hires a Top Matix Alum
An ex-Matrix VP goes back to its old parent company...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Pimco Claims Vanguard's Fund-Flows Laurels
This month's Morningstar funds flows report is out...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Gundlach Passes $50B
The bond fund guru's startup crosses an AUM milestone...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Wells Fargo Studies the Savings Strategies of the Well-Heeled
...and concludes that affluence is tied to planning...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Moody Picks a New Sales Chief for Matrix
The BroadRidge subsidiary promotes a company vet...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Reader Rating: 5
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On Money Fund Reform, Fido's Disappointed, BlackRock's Not Enamored and BNY Mellon Sees Some Merit
On Tuesday the FSOC asked the SEC to consider three money market reforms. Now the industry's reacting...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Chuck Schwab Fears Neither Taxes Nor Recessions
At the Schwab IMPACT conference, panelists take a big-picture view...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Reader Rating: 3
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Bill Gross Makes a Big Donation
The bond king gives a big check to a hospital...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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iShares Brings in The Bucks
The president of iShares tells a crowd in New York how much the new series of funds has attracted so far...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Pru's Guaranteed Income Product Draws Half a Billion of Assets
Jamie Kalamarides provides an update on IncomeFlex...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Reader Rating: 3
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InvestLink Changes Hands Again
Bluff Point has found a buyer for InvestLink...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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Morningstar Praises Four Target-Date Series
Yet one of the biggest target date fund families is noticeably absent from the new ratings from the Chitown firm...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Vanguard Dominates Morningstar's New Ratings
Mansueto's analysts offer forward-looking rates of about 350 U.S. mutual funds. Who's been rated already, and how'd they do?..
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Reader Rating: 1
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Ultimus Switches Recordkeeping Systems
The Cincinnati-based firm bid adieu to the recordkeeping system it had used for the past 11 years...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Lincoln Trust Takes Advantage of Fiduciary Strategies
The open architecture RKer amps up the RIA support for its two-year-old, pre-packaged product...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Fidelity Pads Its iPad App
The Boston Behemoth upgrades its tablet offering for clients of its online brokerage...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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MFS Puts its Investment Pros in the Spotlight
The Boston-based fund firm hosted a media event Tuesday in New York featuring its investment pros...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Manning & Napier's IPO Could Make it an Acquirer
The Fairport, New York-based investment manager continues to attract media attention in the runup to its IPO...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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An NFP Shop Seeks Another 401k Advisor
A pair of specialists look to add a third to their team...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Global X and a Chinese-Focused Social Media Fund
What could go wrong with investing in just a handful of stocks, mostly in China? Or, do the latest ETF launches suggest a bubble?..
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Is Berkowitz Bouncing Back?
Seeking Alpha takes a different look at the Fairholme Fund's recent performance woes...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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MarketWatch Lauds a Five-Star Neuberger Fund
The pub digs into the strategy and stock picks of a mid-cap value mutual fund...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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ING Adds Three to Stable Value
The bundled provider and asset manager expands its stable value team and records booming sales...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Private Equity May Acquire a TPA Acquirer
A TPA acquirer reveals a non-binding letter of intent to sell to a nearby firm...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Commonwealth Puts Retirement in an I-O Vet's Hands
The Indie B-D names a new retirement consulting chief...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Reader Rating: 4
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Ramey Returns to Transamerica
The sales pro, most recently with RiverSource, is back at his old firm...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Security Benefit Snags a JPMorgan Vet
The Topeka, Kansas-based provider is looking to grow its retirement business...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Goldman Promotes its Asset Management Chops
GSAM launches its first ever large-scale ad campaign...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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With a Pair of Moves, Thompson Seeks to Broaden its Reach
The Madison, Wisconsin-based firm takes two key steps this year to increase assets...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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WSJ Talks 401k Fee Disclosure
The Journal ponders the new DoL regs and the possibility of 12b-1 reform...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Ken Heebner's Apple Move Draws Attention
The veteran manager's decision to sell most of his mutual fund's Apple holdings is well-documented in the press...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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BNY Mellon Grows its Retirement and VA Team
The group expands to five externals with the hiring
of a Wells Fargo alum...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Reader Rating: 4.33
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AllianceBernstein is Happy Being Independent, Kraus Says
AllianceBernstein's top exec dispels speculation...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Jaffe Says Avoid PMs Who 'Underestimated the Risk'
The columnist lists mutual fund managers catchphrases that should be words of warning...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Bob Reynolds Heads to Washington
Putnam's CEO will talk about "rebooting America's future" in Washington this week...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Reader Rating: 4
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Creditors Take a Slice of Marsico
The mutual fund firm restructures its debt...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Reader Rating: 4
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The Start of a 'Multitrillion-Dollar Wave' Catches the WSJ's Eye
In today's Wall Street Journal Fund Track, Alistair Barr and Sam Mamudi examine the world of hedged mutual funds...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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Fidelity Plans to Axe 1,700 More Jobs
The Boston Behemoth, which laid off 1,300 employees this week, reaches a decision on how many jobs will be cut early next year...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
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A Jumbo-Plan Provider Loses its Top Dog
UPDATED| Another exec atop a mega-plan provider has moved on...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3.75
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Goldman Sachs Asset Management Celebrates Budding Media Relations
Last night, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) held a media dinner at an upscale midtown Manhattan restaurant, Maloney & Porcelli...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Retirement Superhero Wins National Recognition
An advertising campaign by an industry think-tank takes home a nice trophy.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Will Bear Stearns Become an Endangered Species?
Fourth quarter earning may spell extinction for Jimmy Cayne...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Discovery Database Goes Mobile
Financial professionals can access Discovery's information from enterprise backend systems from any location at any time using a wireless handheld device...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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SoCal TPA Offers Cash Balance Partnership
A Golden State firm specializing in hybrid plans looks to help others get into the space.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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SEC Votes In Favor of Disclosure Proposal
SEC Commissioner Chris Cox got his unanimity back this morning when he and his fellow commissioners vote 4-0 in favor of the mutual fund disclosure proposal...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Integrity Slashes Fees in Small Cap Fund
The Minot, North Dakota-based fund firm is reducing the contractual expense cap in its Integrity Small Cap Growth Fund...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.83
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MassMutual Expands its Sales Presence in Texas
The Springfield, Massachusetts-based provider has made an addition to its institutional sales team...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 4
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Report: Investment Management M&A to Keep Going Strong in the New Year
M&A in the investment management industry has skyrocketed this year, even with the turmoil in the markets, and will continue to stay strong in 2008...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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And the Seven Schwab Stable Value Winners Are ...
The San Francisco brokerage giant has finally tapped the remainder of the sub-advisory team for its massive capital preservation option fund...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Two New Democratic Nominees Surface at the SEC
There are two new faces set to fill the open Democratic spots at the SEC.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Morningstar Deepens its Relationship with Microsoft
Morningstar, which has been providing investment data and editorial content to Microsoft's MSN Money Web site for several years, has deepened its ties with the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Analyst: Fido's Stock Funds to Rediscover Good Performance
Once underperformers, Fidelity's stock funds are due for a resurgence...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Analyst: Fido's Stock Funds to Rediscover Good Performance
Once underperformers, Fidelity's stock funds are due for a resurgence...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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What A Difference A Decade Makes
Merrill Lynch director Kevin Crain gave Spark attendees a snapshot of the DC industry circa 1996...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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Boston Asset Manager Intros SRAs
The new program is aimed at helping bridge the retirement savings shortfall...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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Reader Rating: 2
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Mellon to Start Up Auto Plan Feature
The Pittsburgh bank and investment manager is a believer in auto-enrollment as it builds out its investment-only business...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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Pozen Bats for Check-Off IRAs
The chairman of MFS Investment Management wants Congress to require employers who do not offer retirement plans to set up CIRAs...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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Reader Rating: 4
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Can Green Tights Induce Savings?
A retirement industry non-profit rolls out a national ad campaign featuring a new spandex-clad superhero with advice about finances.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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Sun Life CEO is Shopping for U.S. Managers
Canada's Sun Life Financial Inc. has built a war chest of more than $800 million and is ready to spend some of it in the United States...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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Reader Rating: 4
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New Round Of Mergers At AIM
After embarking on a reorganization affecting eight funds earlier this year, a fresh wave of mergers is on the horizon for AIM Investments...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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Magellan Loses Spot on Lowe's Shelves
The home improvement supplies retailer has dropped Fidelity's Magellan fund...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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SSgA Adds Nine ETFs to the Amex
As expected, State Street Global Advisors has launched another nine exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The new funds include the new SPDR Dividend
ETF as well as eight streetTRACKS branded products...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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Bisys Responds to Client Wins By Hiring
BISYS Fund Services is staffing up to service newly landed clients. Fred Naddaff, president of the New York City back office shop said that the firm has hired several new executives and promoted Michele Samuels to oversee strategic product initiatives. Over the past 18 months, Bisys Fund Services says it has reeled in 20 new asset managers as clients...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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Hewitt Could be a Target (But It's Likely Not)
The plan administrator and consulting firm has handed out golden parachutes to its senior executives. The move could be a sign that the firm is for sale, but that would be a risky bet...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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Reader Rating: 5
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PM Jumps From American Century
A shuffling of responsibilities is underway at American Century Investments triggered by the departure of a portfolio manager...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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State Makes Great-West Rivals Dance Fast
Tennessee is running its RFP process from start to finish in less than three months. Incumbent Great-West is being reconsidered for the job...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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Reader Rating: 2
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Putnam Venture Fund Loses Chair
Putnam is losing one of the heavyweights in its TH Lee Putnam Ventures partnership. Harvey Golub, the fund's chairman and the onetime chairman and CEO of American Express, is pulling out of the venture capital firm and forming a new private-equity firm. Golub is taking two other partners with him.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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Proxy Fight: Citi Open Ends One Fund
Citigroup has thrown in the towel in a fight with closed-end fund shareholders over one of six funds. However, the agreement left the management change for five other funds in doubt...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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HighMark Allies for B-D Distribution
HighMark Capital has paired up with Questar Asset Management to sell a new line of asset allocation models for managed accounts. The alliance pairs the asset management capabilities of the bank-owned fund family with the distribution of the publicly-owned broker-dealer...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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ICMA-RC Extends Reach with IRA
The public plan specialists is reaching outside of the qualified plan arena with a new product for government workers and their families...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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Reader Rating: 4
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Search401k Lands in the Lap of Dow Jones
The WSJ publisher coughs up $519 million, but what for?..
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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Reader Rating: 4
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Sihpol Lawyers Seek Dismissal
Lawyers representing Theodore Sihpol sought Monday to have criminal charges against their client dismissed. Sihpol, a broker in the high net worth group of Bank of America, was the first person charged by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for assisting Canary Capital Partners make illegal trades in mutual funds. His trial on 40 counts of fraud is scheduled to commence in February.
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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DoL Sues Minneapolis Sponsor
The plan trustee failed to deposit contributions and loan repayments into the plan, alleges the DoL...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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Reader Rating: 2
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Ceridian Launches Planning Tool
The launch dovetails with the National Retirement Planning Week celebrations...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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Reader Rating: 3.67
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Fifth Third Taps Outsourcing Partner
The bank has selected a recordkeeping platform for its 401k plan clients. Move is set to be complete by first quarter 2005...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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Reader Rating: 2.5
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Ben Stein Gets Serious about Retirement
Planning, not winning his money, is the key to more cash flow during retirement, says Ben Stein...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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American United Life Promotes One Brand
AUL is ramping up efforts to bring its parent company brand, OneAmerica, to the fore...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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Reader Rating: 1.5
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Putnam Slashes 100 Jobs
The Boston fund firm announces that approximately one hundred employees will lose their jobs. The job cuts will hit Putnam across all parts of the organization...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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Reader Rating: 4
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Merrill CEO Affirms Commitment to Money Management
New found consistency and strong profits make the U.S. asset management business a key part of the brokerage firm says its CEO. Look for more pressure to build sales of Merrill funds through rival brokerages and fund supermarkets...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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Deal Brings Legg Mason $5.8 Billion
The Baltimore-based asset manager picks up nearly $6 billion in assets by purchasing the U.S. high net worth business from a European bank...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
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BGI Let DC Sales Team Go
The last dozen from the investment-only sales effort were recently let go as part of a year-long move to focus on DB sales...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Reader Rating: 2
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Ameritrade Lands New Biz Development Pointman
A former Schwab and Fidelity executive has joined its growing institutional business unit...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Spark 2002 Hears Wedding Bells
Attendance was up this week in Palm Beach, even if not all of those there had jobs (or rooms)...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Reader Rating: 3
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e529 Resource Taps iEnroll
The college savings resource makes a feature of iEnroll college savings calculator available...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Nationwide Names CFO
The insurer names its replacement for Robert Oakley...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Allmerica Acknowledges SEC Probe
Allmerica confirmed that the SEC is looking into its public disclosures of its variable annuity and variable life businesses...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Online Marketplace Adds DC Solutions From SEI
The Silicon Valley firm adds a 401k offering to its advisor-vendor focused Site...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Chertoff Says No to SEC
The Justice lawyer will not be taking over for Harvey Pitt...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Janus Bails Out Money Fund
The Denver firm decides to put out a smoldering issue before it bursts into flame...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Reader Rating: 3
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Fund Firm Reupps With Bisys
A Mid-Atlantic bank has renewed its accounting and TA contract and added other services as well...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Accounting Firm Aims to Help Industry on Taxes
PricewaterhouseCoopers leverages its tax and technology expertise to create this new product suite...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Scudder Picks New Online Planner
The Deutsche Asset Management unit is augmenting its education-guidance options with this agreement...
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Friday, November 15, 2002
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JP Morgan|American Century Snare Another Giant
The vendor has a new large plan sponsor...
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Boehner Bill Passes House
It is on to the Senate for the Boehner advice bill as it passes the House with a two-to-one majority.
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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People Bank Forges New Unit
The firm has created an investment services division...
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Blodget Departs Mother Merrill
"Internet Guy" Accepts Buy-Out ... Returning to the Fold ... Hitting the Road ... Another Perspective on Boehner Bill ... GoldK Adds Oberweis...
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Blodget Departs Mother Merrill
"Internet Guy" Accepts Buy-Out ... Returning to the Fold ... Hitting the Road ... Another Perspective on Boehner Bill ... GoldK Adds Oberweis...
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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63 Laid Off at Pioneer
For the first time in its history, the Boston firm has to lay-off some workers...
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Clarion Likes Real Estate
The firm is the subadviser for a new real estate fund...
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Federated Wins State Plan
The vendor will be providing investment management services for a 457 plan...
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Thinking Social Responsibility
A plan on the West Coast is seeking a socially responsible fund for its participants...
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Thursday, November 15, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Ready for Real Talk?
American Express is making its educational video available to all comers via the Web...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2000
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Reader Rating: 3
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November 15, 2000
OppFunds Plans SubAdvised Family ... Fund Managers Become Team Players ... Dresdner Open Ends Fund ... Monument Plans Genomics Fund...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2000
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Reader Rating: 3
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November 15, 2000
Fund Managers Become Team Players ... Investor's On Advice ... OppFunds Plans SubAdvised Family...
401kWire.com -
Wednesday, November 15, 2000
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Reader Rating: 3
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Startup Adds CIO
FOLIOfn is still searching for a chief marketing officer after adding a CIO...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2000
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Reader Rating: 3
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Fund Family is "X'ed"
Today is the last day for the X.com family of funds. The question is, what is story on its fund execs?..
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Wednesday, November 15, 2000
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Reader Rating: 3
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Pru Jumps On Financial Engines Bandwagon
Prudential Investments and its 1.2 million participants now have the option of using Financial Engines' advice product...
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Monday, November 15, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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PwC and Siebel Launch Sales Integration Tool
Siebel Systems and PricewaterhouseCoopers have come together to create a product that helps mutual fund companies create a more comprehensive view of their sales, marketing and distribution efforts...
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Monday, November 15, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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Pru Jumps On Financial Engines Bandwagon
Prudential Investments and its 1.2 million participants will soon be offered Financial Engines' advice product...
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Monday, November 15, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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Ivy Eyeing 401k Market
Everyone who's not in the 401k marketplace wants to get in. Ivy Mackenzie is no different and is making plans to join the fray...
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Monday, November 15, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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Distribution Issues Tops for Financial Service CEOs
A new survey by Tillinghast-Towers Perrin shows distribution and increasing competition to be the most important issues among financial services chief executive officers...
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Monday, November 15, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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Bank Launches Non-Qualified Product
The first bank to offer a product for highly compensated executives has launched a bundled product for sponsors...
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Monday, November 15, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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Odd Lots, November 15, 1999
Fund managers mad as hell and not taking it anymore ... Schwab sleeping with the enemy for IPOs ... Farrell urges Janus masses to voice opinions ... IPO craze to attract more IPO funds?..
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Monday, November 15, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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