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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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An $870B-AUM Firm Adds Its 30th ETF
The new, passively managed fund is also the asset manager's ninth bond ETF...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
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Hassara Expands Her Senior Leadership Team By Four
Two Principal RIS leaders are refocusing as a quartet of new hires joins the recordkeeper...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
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David Selects a Good Number Two
A PE-backed recordkeeper's chief will pass one of his hats to a new hire later this year...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
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Reader Rating: 3
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Is the SEC Repeating Past Errors Or Helping MMFs Weather the Next Storm?
The regulatory agency's new money market fund regulations won approval from a divided commission yesterday...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
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Pagano Picks Two Division Sales Managers, And ...
A search is on to fill the promoted executives' old roles...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
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Reader Rating: 5
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An Ex-Hancock ETF Distro Exec Joins an Indexer
The West Coast-based distribution veteran has signed on with a Big Apple firm...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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vWise's Chief Talks Brand Refresh
The online participant engagement specialist's chief talks to 401kWire...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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An ERISA Legal Eagle Joins a CIT Specialist
The new hire has provided legal services to the firm for more than a decade...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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Say Goodbye to a Six-Year-Old ETF Brand
17 ETFs will be rebranding in several weeks...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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Empower Hires an Ex-KPA
He most recently worked with SageView and affiliatedwith Cetera...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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After 34 Years With Franklin, a Senior Exec Joins a Faith-Based Shop
The new hire serves as the religiously managed mutual fund firm's director of strategic planning...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Franklin Partners With a Participant Engagement Specialist
The new alliance involves the DC I-O firm's new goals optimization engine (GOE)...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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MAP Adds Another Hancock Alum
Bob Carroll hires a wholesaler at the Midwestern TPA...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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An RM Leader Joins a $74B-AUMA RKer
The new hire most recently worked at Empower Retirement...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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What's Up Next For the DoL and SEC?
ERISA legal eagles and DC trade group leaders weigh in on the regulators' agendas...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Reader Rating: 5
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30 Years, $7.5B In Assets
A Gotham firm's team celebrates a big anniversary for one of their mutual funds...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Tips for Converting Mutual Funds to ETFs on a Tax-Free Basis
In light of the recent approval of translucent active ETF structures, a reader weighs in...
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Monday, July 13, 2020
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After 40 Years With Nationwide, an Ex-DC Sales Leader Exits
Stay tuned for his next chapter...
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Monday, July 13, 2020
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Reader Rating: 2
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Two More Tiers For Tackling 401k Leakage
A provider and plan sponsor ally adds levels to its flagship offering...
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Monday, July 13, 2020
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A $10B Plan Ships In a New Custodian
The plan had more than 108,000 participants as of the end of 2018...
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Monday, July 13, 2020
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Week In Preview, July 13 - July 19
This week the teams at Commonwealth, DCIIA, EBRI, Faegre Drinker, Fi360, NAPA, and Spark are all hosting virtual events...
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Monday, July 13, 2020
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Week In Preview, July 13 - July 19
This week the teams at Aite Group, MFDF, MMI, NICSA, and SEC will host virtual events...
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Monday, July 13, 2020
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Case of the Week: Contribution Limits
RLC's Jenny Kiffmeyer digs into how much participants can sock away in DC plans this year...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
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Reader Rating: 5
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OregonSaves ... With a Chatbot
Corrected | The year-old program has introduced a new customer support program...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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Yoshida Launches an Alt Retirement Startup
The nearly 20-year financial services vet and startup leader has launched his newest company...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
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USI CG Scores a Sales VP
A 25 year industry vet and ex-pro hockey player joins USI...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
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An Ex-Delaware Consultant Resurfaces at Vanguard
A Philadelphia-based advisor consultant has moved companies after four years as a top salesman with Delaware Funds...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
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Mackanos Launches a Quarterly KPA Check-In
The national recordkeeping alliance will soon host webinars...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
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Two Familiar Billionaires Buy New Homes
Where do the richest fundsters live? One just bought a bachelor pad in the OC, and another recently acquired a condo in southern Florida...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
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McNabb Is Stepping Down
A familiar face is taking over the largest mutual fund company in the world next year. ..
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Redhawk Wealth Advisor Welcomes $120MM KPA
An advisor in Ohio now affiliates with Redhawk.....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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A $10.7B Shop Hunts for Subadvisory Biz After a Win
The Chi-Town asset manager is now one of three subadvisors on the fund.....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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What is the End Game for FinTech?
KPAs, are you ready to be the next Amazon-type advisor?..
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Matt Fellowes Starts a New Venture
This serial entrepreneur has a few things up his sleeve.....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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20 Fund Firms Team Up With LPL For a New Mini-Mart
The Mutual Fund Only platform will be available to LPL advisors and institutions in early 2018.....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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States Enter the Fiduciary Fray
Just when you thought fiduciary news couldn't get more complicated... ..
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Post-Strategic Review, Beaulieu Brings Three Senior Execs to Altegris
The liquid alts shop expands its leadership team as part of its evolving strategic priorities.....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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New Fund Fuss - July 13, 2017
The latest news on funds!..
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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LPL Retirement Vet Switches Firms
This exec has been with LPL for 13 years.....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Plan Health Analysis is Just OneClick Away
A fintech company recently launched a new tool to monitor plan health. ..
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Bigger Isn't Better? Don't Be So Sure
New research pushes back against the idea that mutual fund scale (both at the fund and industry levels) is a good thing for mutual fund investors. MFWire is skeptical...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Pru Promotes, Again!
Following a recent promotion, Prudential is at it again.....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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John Hancock Scores a $1B Taft-Hartley Plan
Mercer was previously recordkeeper to the plan. ..
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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Reader Rating: 2
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A DC I-O Pioneer Dies
Last month a retired 401k industry insider in New Jersey passed away...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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Reader Rating: 5
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NextShares Gains Wirehouse Distro
TA multinational bank's U.S. wirehouse arm has signed on to making Eaton Vance's new kind of fund structure available next year through the wirehouse's B-D and RIA platforms...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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New Fund Fuss -- July 13, 2016
The latest fund launches in the industry! ..
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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Plan Sponsors Hunt Fiduciary Partners in Shifting Landscape
Chatham Partners' research indicates plan sponsors are more loyal and satisfied than before...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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Reader Rating: 1
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Prudential Picks Up Two Mid-Market DC Plans
Prudential Retirement wins two defined contribution plans in the south...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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DoL Seeks the Public to Modernize its 5500 Data Form
The Department of Labor is sourcing public comments to modernize its form for plan sponsors...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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Reader Rating: 4
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Voya Wins Oil & Gas Employer's DC Assets
Occidental Petroleum is readying a blackout period for its DC plans...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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Reader Rating: 4
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A Tech Startup Steps More Than a Bit Into the ETF Biz
A two-year-old shop in Gotham is preparing to launch its own ETF...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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Obama Calls on DoL to Act
Speaking at the White House Conference on Aging, President Obama revealed that he had directed the Department of Labor to draft up regulations that would "provide a clear path forward for states to create retirement savings programs."..
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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Reader Rating: 2.67
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Retail Is Crushing Institutional
Casey Quirk teams up for a 14th annual look at asset managers' performance around the globe...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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This Is What Goldman Paid Buddy Donahue ... and This Is How He Invests
Bloomberg digs into the financial disclosures made by the former SEC investment management division chief upon his return to the regulatory agency this spring...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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North Carolina Makes its RKer Choice
The North Carolina Retirement Systems have inked a contract for a recordkeeper for 52 thousand participants...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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Reader Rating: 4
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DoL Sues Plan Sponsor for Abandoned 401k
DoL is suing Ants Software Inc. for violating its fiduciary duties...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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Reader Rating: 5
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White House Recognizes Clorox's Clean Retirement Plan
The Clorox Company will be recognized at the 2015 White House Conference on Aging...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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Reader Rating: 3
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RIA Hosts KPA Conference In Kansas City
Resources Investment Advisors, (RIA) (an RIA specializing in servicing retirement plan advisors as hybrid RIA with LPL) hosted its first conference for advisors...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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Fitch Ponders Fido's "Extremely Strong Market Position"
The ratings agency updates its outlook on the Boston Behemoth...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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The Boston Behemoth Seeks A PR Guru
Jersey City will be the home to the "primary spokesperson" for Fidelity (when the hire is made). ..
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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An MSSB Model Maker Changes Teams
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's head of model management and its Consulting Group Capital Markets Funds moves on...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Stork and Reaper for Friday, July 13, 2012
The MFWire's daily report of mutual fund births and deaths...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Emerald Advisory Services Taps a Subadvisor
EAS adds Trademark Capital Management, founded by former Stadion managers, as subadviser...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Pimco Scores a Target-Date Win
Its DC sales head sees a bright future for Pimco's target-date funds...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Reader Rating: 5
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A $2B LPLr Moves and Hires
A West Coast-based team adds a pair of employees and hunts for more while moving to the suburbs...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Reader Rating: 2
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A Hancock Vet Takes Harstein's Place
Updated | A promotion will put another exec in charge of the insurer's mutual fund business...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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An Appeals Court Stands Behind the QDIA Safe Harbor
A ruling from the Sixth Court of Appeals says that participants who lost money after being switched to a Lincoln TDF are not entitled to damages
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Reader Rating: 5
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Grandeur Aims for Higher Peaks With New Additions
Seven new interns with varying global experiences were chosen to support research, operational and business duties at Grandeur Peak...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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A $5B Lone Star PM Steps Down
USAA's Didi Weinblatt will step down from the two funds she manages effective July 16..
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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RIAs Combine in a Move a Savant Could Love
Updated | A Chicagoland firm reaches into Virginia and creates a $2.7-billion, nine-office shop...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Reader Rating: 1
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Templeton Fills Motyl's Post
CIO Gary Motyl died unexpectedly last month. Now his spot has been filled. ..
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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DEA Doesn't Appreciate This Fund Exec's Distibution Efforts
A U.S. Boston AVP was implicated by Boston police in a drug ring earlier this week...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Reader Rating: 4
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ProShares Adds Two New ETFs
ProShares catches up with the competition with the addition of two new ETFs...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Some Big European Money Funds Close to New Investors
European rate cuts may benefit U.S. money market funds, says the WSJ..
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Money: It's What They Want
US Commodity Funds is rolling out a quintet of currency ETFs...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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FlexShares Passes the Billion-Dollar Mark
Four funds belong to the FlexShares ETF family now hold seven figures...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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New Derivatives Regs May Lock Some European Asset Managers Out of the Market
The WSJ covers rule changes for asset managers based across the Atlantic...
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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Fidelity Says Goodbye to a Star PM, For Four Months
An investing guru takes some time off to write a book...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Edward Jones Offers a Private-Label 401k
The 12,000-advisor broker-dealer teams up with a Midwestern recordkeeper...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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A Mega Plan Partially Reinstates its Match
It is also streamlining its fund lineup...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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A $1.9B MFS Fund Adds a Co-PM
The Bay State mutual fund firm prepares to split the helm for an international offering...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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IndexIQ Offers an Emerging Markets ETF
The new offering bets on mid-caps in emerging markets...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Closed-End Muni-Bond Funds Now Come in an ETF
Van Eck Global unveils its 35th ETF, a fixed income offering...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Ulian Names a New DC Product Head
BofA is shuffling its leadership team for retirement...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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The DoL Extends a Disclosure Rule Effective Date
But the new deadline date may not meet industry expectations...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Reader Rating: 5
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An ABG Member Adds a New Face to its Lineup
A recordkeeping TPA has added a new sales and marketing personnel to its roster...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Reader Rating: 1
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ExpertPlan Teams Up With a Publisher
Updated | The outsourced recordkeeper unveils a new partnership to support advisors...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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AQR's Founder Sees Red After Two Bottles
Rep. Paul Ryan's hedge fund buddy reportedly throws an F-bomb at a business professor...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Reader Rating: 5
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Gross Ups Total Return's Treasurys By 60 Percent
The flagship Pimco fund's moves continue to attract media attention...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Deal Brings Stadion into Private Equity Hands
First announced in April, the deal became complete on June 30...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Munder Unveils a Pair of Funds
Both are sub-advised by Munder subsidiary Integrity Asset Management...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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A Fidelity Team Sets Sail On Its Own
The Boston Behemoth says goodbye to a real-estate-focused team, yet maintains ties...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Northern Trust Takes Over a Mutual Fund Client from State Street
Northern Trust is the new transfer agent, custodian and administrator for the New Jersey-based asset manager...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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New Share Classes 'R'-rive For Two Wells Fargo Funds
The mutual fund family adds retirement plan share classes to a pair of funds as it integrates Evergreen's offerings into its own...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Reader Rating: 3
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A DC I-O Exec Moves On from Nuveen
The Nuveen veteran has left the firm...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Old Mutual Buys an Echo of Morgan Stanley From Invesco
Updated | A portfolio team that sub-advises mutual funds and manages separate accounts will create a new boutique within Old Mutual Asset Management...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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Legg Mason Hires a Wholesaler from Transamerica
The Baltimore-based mutual fund firm expands its roster of retirement-focused wholesalers...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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DC I-O Assets Could Hit $2T By 2011
An industry consulting firm offers its latest take on the retirement plan opportunities for asset managers...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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EBRI Confirms the Success of the Auto-Plan
Many participants, though less than in 2003, are still at risk in terms of retirement savings progress, but it seems that the spirit of PPA is working as planned...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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BlackRock Knocks Out Deutsche in a Subadvisory Race
One asset management giant will replace another as the subadvisor to a Prudential fund...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Mutual of America Lands an Intrepid PM
The fund firm taps a portfolio manager for its institutional index funds. Delaware and Goldman Sachs make changes while USAA fund adds a PM. Legg Mason trustees recommend fund merger...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Guardian Tackles Florida With its New Hire
Guardian makes a sales hire in the Sunshine State...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Two Morgan Stanley Bigwigs Pack their Bags
Two former co-heads of Morgan Stanley's asset management business are preparing to bid the firm adieu...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Workers' Retirement Readiness Actually Increased Over the Past 7 Years
Automatic enrollment in 401k plans appears to be making a big difference, but a research think tank worries that many are still not on track for retirement...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Schwab Grows its Laudus Roster with a UBS Fund
The West Coast giant expands its Laudus fund offerings...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Reader Rating: 2
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Liftout Catapults a Stable Value Giant Into Money Market Funds
A fixed income manager plans a significant product expansion after adding a new team...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Reader Rating: 4
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Nadart Drives in a Familiar New Exec
A national trade group taps a new VP for its retirement plan subsidiary...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Reader Rating: 2
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Dreyfus Moves to Consolidate Fund Boards
Dreyfus is consolidating fund boards as part of efforts to bring down costs...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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One Tennessee TPA Gobbles Another
Updated | Both retirement and payroll administration are reportedly involved in the deal...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Allianz Shuts a Small-Cap Fund to Most Investors
Allianz Global Investors is closing its NFJ Small-Cap value Fund to most investors at the end of next month...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Schwab Execs Say They are Snatching Business from Fidelity and Vanguard
Executive tell Barron's the fee cuts and lowered minimums are paying off...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Reader Rating: 5
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State Street Returns More TARP Money
The bank reportedly becomes the first big financial firm to leave the bailout program...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Fund Managers Need a Clear Advantage and Defined Business, Says BCG
Last week's study from Boston Consulting Group is making bigger waves...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Evergreen's Large Cap Fund to Undergo Name, Strategy Change
Wachovia's investment management arm is making changes to the Evergreen Large Cap Equity Fund's name, strategy and objective...
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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UPDATE 1: Gallagher's White Plains Team Disperses
The insurance brokerage's retirement unit sees more departures and transfers, with more new hires on the horizon.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 4.5
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BNY ConvergEx, Townsend Analytics Ink Distribution Deal
BNY ConvergEx Group has picked Townsend Analytics as a preferred distribution partner...
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.83
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SmartMoney: TradeKing is Tops Again
TradeKing was just named the top-rated discount broker for the second year in row by SmartMoney...
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Great-West's Nelson: More Consolidation to Come
One of the 401k industry's most prolific dealmakers sees more M&A action occurring.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 4
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Openings Appear at Old Line State Fund Firms
This week's "Grabbed From the Monster" job column features fund industry jobs found on Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com, as per usual, along with a focus on positions available with investment managers in Maryland.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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Insurer's Search for Retirement Income CMO Is Still Ongoing
The Massachusetts-headquartered insurer has yet to conclude its search for a marketing chief for its retirement income unit...
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 1.5
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XShares Obtains SEC Exemption from '40 Act Investment Limits
The Big Apple firm has received an exemptive order from the SEC that allows mutual funds to go beyond the investment limits contained in section 12(d)1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 when investing in shares of ETFs...
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 4
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FRC: Advisors Want Wholesalers Who Understand
Advisors want asset management wholesalers with solutions and understanding, not product pushers. That's just one of the findings of a new research report released by Financial Research Corporation and Horsesmouth...
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3.33
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Morningstar Unit Gets Patent on Portfolio Creation Method
Morningstar subsidiary Ibbotson Associates has secured a patent on its portfolio construction method for individual investors based on the concept of human capital...
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Planning Retirement Income
A Big Apple fund company has a program about retirement income planning in the works for advisors.
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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Reader Rating: 2
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Most Participants Skip Managed Accounts
A new study found that among participants whose plans offer the managed account option, 60 percent do not use it...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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Reader Rating: 1
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A Fresh Batch from ProShares
On Thursday, five and a half years after filing for SEC approval, ProShares finally launched the first batch of ETFs that double magnify short exposure to well-known market indexes...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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Gabelli Reaches Settlement Deal
Industry star Mario Gabelli has finally settled a five-year-old suit that alleged he committed civil fraud by using shell companies to bid for wireless spectrum licenses in the 1990s...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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Direxion Says No Thanks to IRS Commodity Headaches
In developing a slew of new products to mark its organizational reinvention, Direxion Funds has changed its grip on commodities to escape tax penalties from the Internal Revenue Service...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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What's Next For ExpertPlan?
The new president at the record keeper and application services provider describes the transition, and the future...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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Reader Rating: 1
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Janus Bets on Titan's Strength
Janus Capital Group has plans to fold a $2.2 billion fund into another offering less than half that size, following the retirement of the larger fund's portfolio managers...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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SEC Approves Soft Dollar Rules 5-0
By unanimous vote, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to approve new guidelines on soft dollar deals, reported Reuters. First made public last October, the clarified rules will take effect in six months...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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Reader Rating: 3
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Newport Adds Auto Rebalancing
The plan administrator is offering a rebalancing tool that can handle more than just 401k plans...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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That's "Spritzer" with a "P"
It appears that someone, likely a retirement consultant, is getting a little to gung ho when it comes to warning plan sponsors of their fiduciary duties. Those efforts have caught the attention of Florida regulators...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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Reader Rating: 2.67
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Study: Don’t Sell that Fund
New research from Morningstar shows that funds that encourage their shareholders to stay are likely doing them a favor...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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TIAA-CREF's Fund Advisor Asks for a Raise
Teachers Advisors says it has been losing money on the funds used in TIAA-CREF's college savings programs since it launched them in 1999...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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Bad Models are at the Heart of AmEx's Settlement
New Hampshire regulators sent the fund industry a message that model portfolios must be built with care and expertise...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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MLIM Exec Denies Sale of Unit
One of the biggest rumored deals this year may be just a rumor. The firm keeps joint ventures an open option...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Fidelity Loses Top Spot in Manager Rankings
Two giant indexers pass the Boston Behemoth in the II money manager rankins. Is this the death knell for fund firms?..
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Subtracting Asset Fees Reveals True Plan Costs
How can you get plan sponsors to open their eyes to the real fees they pay? One national recordkeeper says it has found a way...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Reader Rating: 3.75
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A Modern Day Guild For Fee-Only Consultants
The Revere Coalition will allow members to pool intellectual capital, according to co-founder Steve Lansing...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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RIA and Consultant Team Up
Cross-country connections: a Midwest consultant and Florida RIA form a strategic alliance to offer services to retirement plans...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Haaga: Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda
The ICI chair and executive vice president of Capital Research says fund companies should have anticipated trading abuses...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Hearing Officer in Pru Refuses to Recuse
Lawyers defending Prudential brokers face more challenges as the Feds tell Massachusetts to put its civil case on hold...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Boehner Bill to Get Hearing
The bill is moving towards markup in the House while the Senate still needs a sponsor. ..
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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Three Senior Execs To Leave Mutual Series
Michael Price called it quits, but the surprise is that two more members of his five-member succession team are also bidding adieu...
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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Fido Sharpens the Axe
Fidelity cuts 9 percent of brokerage unit ... adds four new funds ... Private-equity specialist to fund firms names hire.
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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Fido Sharpens the Axe
Fidelity cuts 9 percent of brokerage unit ... Adds four new funds ... ETFs hit Japan ... Private-equity specialist to fund firms names hire...
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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Indian Stocks Undone by Fund
A surprise six-month freeze on redemptions is panicking India's stock market and creating a political crisis...
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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Strong Bonds through Chemistry
The American Chemistry Council has tapped a new bundled vendor...
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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First Union and A Few Good Women
First Union is launching a new educational service for women.
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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RS and Elijah Part Ways
After nearly a decade, the San Francisco fund sponsor has decided to replace Ron Elijah as the portfolio manager for $475 million of fund assets...
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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T. Rowe Price Wins Free State 529
Hometown provider T. Rowe Price has won the mandate for a second college saving program...
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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Back-Office Provider IFS Outsources
Integrated Fund Services will migrate its shareholder services to a SunGard platform.
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Friday, July 13, 2001
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Ways And Means Committee Passes Pension Reform Bill
Retirement Saving Accounts make a brief reappearance, raising some interesting issues about the Presidential race...
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
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Stable Value Rates for July 14, 2000
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
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Stilwell Rises on Day One
Shares in the holding company of Janus and Berger started trading with a bang...
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
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The Truth about Company Stock
Company stock in a 401k plan is not a win-win, it is a win-lose argues Morningstar's John Rekenthaler...
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
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July 13, 2000
ING Group eyes Aetna units ... No fallout on PaineWebber funds expected...
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
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July 13, 2000
ING Group eyes Aetna units ... No fallout on PaineWebber funds expected...
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
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Atlanta Sponsor Adds Funds
Two funds from T. Rowe Price join the lineup. ..
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
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Small Bytes: Funds--AIM, SSR, ND
July 10 - July 14
*UPDATED* State Steet Research, ND Holdings and AIM launch funds, Scudder closes one...
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
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AnnuityNet.com to Offer Stein Roe Product
AnnuityNet.com will offer its second online variable annuity product, offering Stein Roe and other Liberty funds, starting this fall...
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Tuesday, July 13, 1999
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Moving on Up at MassMutual
There's good news for some executives at MassMutual Retirement Services in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two have been promoted. Fredrick Castellani has left his old post as head of the division's sales area to run the entire area...
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Tuesday, July 13, 1999
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Morningstar Names Ad Agencies
As part of Morningstar's plan to aggressively market the company, it is launching a $20 million advertising campaign. Today it has named the primary agencies involved...
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Tuesday, July 13, 1999
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Website Targets Sales Team
Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Benefit Services has launched a new website that is targeted to sales professionals of retirement products, Catherine N.H. Lewis, principal, told the 401kWire.com. The site is intended for use by sales teams in local third-party administrator firms all the way up to those who work for large firms like Fidelity and Vanguard...
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Tuesday, July 13, 1999
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Odd Lots, July 13, 1999
Friedman relaxes investors ... Is Janus getting paranoid? ... Morningstar cooks up new brew ... KC Southern spin-off debate.
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Tuesday, July 13, 1999
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District of Columbia Chooses Provider
Washington, D.C. has announced that Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company will be the exclusive provider for the district's 401(a) defined contribution plan, a spokesperson for Aetna told the 401kwire.com. The District of Columbia has 13,000 participants and a total of $208 million in assets...
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Tuesday, July 13, 1999
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Numeric Launches Internet Trading
The Cambridge-based funds family launches an Internet site allowing its shareholders to trade over the Internet...
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Tuesday, July 13, 1999
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A Tango for Two in Columbus
Columbus, OH-based Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: NFS), owner of PEBSCO, and privately-held National Deferred Compensation, Inc. (NDC), announced that they are forming a strategic alliance. Jeff Botti, spokesperson for NFS, told the 401kWire that the move is his company's first step in acquiring NDC by the end of the third quarter...
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Monday, July 13, 1998
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Heard Elsewhere
Solutia to revamp its plan, IBM might add options, Virginia may launch a plan, and the DoL sues a sponsor...
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Monday, July 13, 1998
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Scudder Kemper Marriage Pays Unexpected Dividend
What happens when a financial services firm mixes a direct marketing approach with an intermediary channel? The traditional thinking is that by overlapping these two distinct sales channels the vendor will confuse customers, anger its intermediaries, and ultimately lose business. ..
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Monday, July 13, 1998
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