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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Quarterly Inflows Fall By $152B
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for March 2025 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Yoerger Seals a Tar Heel State Deal
The TPA acquisition deal closed on April 1...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Reader Rating: 5
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Crain Joins a New, AI-Powered Venture
The BofA veteran will lead recordkeeper sales for the ERISA attorney's new startup...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Reader Rating: 5
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Auto Features Plateaued In 2024, But Participation Still Rose
A large-market provider's new research offers a host of data about retirement plan design and participant choices...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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This Type of Segmentation Is Fast Becoming the Norm For Fundsters
New research from a consulting firm underscores the rise of data-driven segmentation by wholesalers setting up FA meetings...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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AmericanTCS and Empower Teamed Up Again In March
The two providers rolled out another pooled employer plan...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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What Would a Victory-Amundi Combo Look Like?
The proposed deal would boost the multi-boutique asset manage to $279 billion in AUM, more than $1.2 billion in annual revenue, and about $400 million in adjusted net income. And that's before cost synergies...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Benson and McNellis Hire a DC Vet Near Detroit
The new addition to DailyVest team serves as vice president of 401(k) platforms...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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McCarthy and Dash Team Up to Train Female FAs
Corrected | The OneAmerica and Broadridge folks are teaming up on a new initiative to sponsor women through the AIF program...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Reader Rating: 5
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Vanguard Will Sell Some Retirement Biz to a Longtime 401k Ally
The deal is expected to close in the third quarter...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Reader Rating: 5
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Brown Preps a $104B-AUM Addition to Victory
The proposed deal would also bring the publicly traded multi-boutique a new strategic partner across the pond...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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One of an RKer's PPP's Exits, But ...
An acquired PEP player is exiting the space and a PEP shuts down...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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An ETF Shop Adds a Digital Assets Researcher After a Launch
The new hire worked under Cathie Wood years ago, pre-Ark...
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Friday, April 16, 2021
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Clients of PCA, Spectrum, and Sentinel Win Big
A national alliance reveals the winners of its annual plan sponsor awards...
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Friday, April 16, 2021
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A Veteran Mega-Market DC Leader Joins a Healthcare Services C-Suite
A Lone Star State company hires a familiar face from the defined contribution industry...
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Friday, April 16, 2021
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Reader Rating: 1.33
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Goodbye, FBi; Hello, FDI!
A research and technology ally to plan sponsors and KPAs is rebranding and reorganizing...
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Friday, April 16, 2021
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Reader Rating: 1
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Booth Pushes Back Against the Latest Fads
The DFA founder reminds investors of the importance of diversification, long-term investing time horizons, financial advisors, and more...
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Friday, April 16, 2021
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Hancock Extends Its Managed Account Reach
The team at the U.S. retirement plan recordkeeper (part of a publicly traded, multinational, Canadian insurer) is expanding their Personalized Retirement Advice program...
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Friday, April 16, 2021
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Reader Rating: 4
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Tackling Three Retirement Outcomes Pain Points
A DC trade group offers some perspective on addressing several common barriers to better participant outcomes...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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In Kansas, a DC I-O Leader Joins Putnam
The new hire now reports to Angela Achatz...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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A Fin Wellness Provider Goes Free For Big Plans
The move comes during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic slowdown...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Reader Rating: 1
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Envestnet Teams Up With an RKer
The publicly traded TAMP giant is connecting its model portfolio platform to a 401(k) offering...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Reader Rating: 5
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Leveraged Index Shops Dominate Midsize Flows
The M* team updates flows data for March and Q1 2020 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Securian Permanently Waives Some Fees
The RKer is the latest to make fee changes during the coronavirus crisis...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Only One Fundster Will Have Trump's Ear On This
The U.S. President has tapped 220 people to form 17 "Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups." One of those people leads one of the biggest mutual fund firms in the world...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Reader Rating: 2
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A Michigan Retailer Freezes Its Match
The COVID-19 crisis leads to another 401k match suspension at a large plan sponsor...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Baird Leads As Mid-Size Flows Fall
The M* team updates flows data for March 2019 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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A 17-Year Transamerica Vet Joins Voya
The Voya team in Chicago welcomed a new VP, client relationship director for tax-exempt market...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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Reader Rating: 4
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SS&C's McQuaid Hires In North Carolina
The exec previously spent nearly a decade at FIS...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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Reader Rating: 3
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DeCamillo Resurfaces ... Outside 401k
The former T. Rowe RKing chief takes a top job at an insurer's distribution arm...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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Reader Rating: 3
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Fidelity and T. Rowe Lead This New Old Awards Race
The two mutual fund giants each landed three nominations, more than any other fund firms...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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An ERISA Attorney Joins Jackson Lewis in L.A.
For the law firm's employee benefits practice group, it's the fourth high-profile new hire so far this year...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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The 401k Industry Takes Nashville
More than 2,200 defined contribution industry insiders, including more than 1,100 FAs, have converged on Music City...
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Monday, April 16, 2018
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Liss Trumpets EGPS' Florida Acquisition
Economic Group Pension services is acquiring a Jacksonville, Florida-based TPA...
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Monday, April 16, 2018
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Fi360's Mueller Readies a Software Partnership
The two parties will offer preferred access to their products and services...
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Monday, April 16, 2018
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Reader Rating: 5
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Week In Preview, April 16-22
The teams at ALFI, InvestmentNews, MFDF, and MFEA are all hosting events this week...
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Monday, April 16, 2018
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Week In Preview, April 16-22
The NAPA and DCIIA teams are both hosting events this week...
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Monday, April 16, 2018
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Reader Rating: 2
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Tips For Using PlanTools' Latest Enhancement
Fiduciary talk is on the tip of many tongues this week; thanks, DoL. And my colleague Lande has the inside scoop on a recently enhanced tool for KPAs who are talking fiduciary...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Spark Says Goodbye to a Key Washington Ally
For the second time in as many years, the trade group's presence in Federal City is changing. ..
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Reader Rating: 4
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Empower Gains a $180MM 401k Brother
A Garden State plan sponsor switches to recordkeepers...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Reader Rating: 5
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Post-Merger, IndexIQ is Adding Staff Across the Board
Yesterday NYLIM closed on its purchase of the liquid alts ETF specialists. What's next?..
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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With PE Backing, an Alts Fundster Offers FAs a Prescription For Full-Scale Diversification
One of the largest issuers of tactical, liquid alternative mutual fund issuers in the U.S. is working on a dashboard for advisors. And they're still looking at more managers and strategies, with an eye towards launching more mutual funds...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Most Participants Don't Grok Basic 401k Terms
Guardian releases new data on participant behavior and understanding, and ponders the potential impact of improved education...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Reader Rating: 4
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BofA Merrill Sees Large Plan Sponsors Embrace Financial Wellness
Kevin Crain digs deep into the provider's new data on retirement plan sponsors...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Reader Rating: 3.93
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This Nebraska Wholesaler Went KPA HD
A 401(k) plan advisor (KPA) who used podcasts as a way to gain traction in the retirement plan marketplace just switched sides...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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An Outspoken RIA Billionaire Prepares to Step Down
Updated | By the end of next year, this famed advisor (and mutual fund PM and subadvisor) will hand off his CEO hat...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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In Colorado, a 401k Advisor Builds Out Her Team
A research associate joins a retirement plan-focused RIA...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Schwab Cuts Large Plan Pricing For a DC I-O Option
Charles Schwab is offering a new, less-expensive share class for one of its collective trusts in retirement plans. ..
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Reader Rating: 5
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Sponsors Weigh the Risks and Rewards of J.P. Morgan's Sale
In this week's column, 401kWire discussed the recent sale of J.P. Morgan's large-market 401k recordkeeping business with plan sponsors. ..
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Reader Rating: 3
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O'Toole Looks for a New Lens
Look out for the departing MassMutual retirement exec to re-emerge as an advisor. ..
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Reader Rating: 4.67
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The Answer for Indexing Alts? Maybe a River Runs Through It
No one seems to know how to index alternative mutual funds, yet the two firms that might eventually have the answer are both based in Chicago, more or less looking across at each other along the Chicago river. They don't seem interact to much, though.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Reader Rating: 2
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Most Participants Don't Know Their Financial ABCs
Only 49 percent of participants can answer basic financial literacy questions...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Calamos' Board Cuts His Pay
After scoring 42.1% with regards to the company's 2013 target goals, the board of Calamos Asset Management cuts the incentive awards to chairman, CEO and co-CIO John Calamos more than 40% compared to that awarded in 2012...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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The CAIA Association Wants to Get on Your Screen
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association and the Investment Management Consultant Association team up for a new certificate program on alternatives...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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A $3B Northern California Duo Join SageView
Randy Long and his team add a pair of advisors in San Francisco...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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A University Seeks a Consultant for Its $1.5B Trio of DC Plans
Wayne State University in Detroit issued an RFP for a DC consultant. ..
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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The Blue Prairie Team Wins Over a Philly 401k Vet
Updated | A retirement plan advisor in the City of Brotherly Love aligns with the Chitown-based consulting shop...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Reader Rating: 5
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A Financial Services Veteran Takes Over Sales at BrightScope
The Alfred brothers hire an alum of Chase and Dow Jones as chief revenue officer...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Reader Rating: 4.55
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Nuveen Deal Reveals The Murkiness of PE Pricing
What Madison Dearborn made on its sale of Nuveen is anybody's guess...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Reader Rating: 4
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OneAmerica's Fee Suit Victory Withstands a Challenge
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court's ruling in favor of the Indiana-based bundled provider...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Faust Names Eaton Vance's New Marketing Chief
Former Market Metrics exec will head marketing and distribution strategy...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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A Big Apple Shop Launches Collective Funds
The Pennsylvania firm has a new suite of products...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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A Quant Team Brings Their New Shop Into the Mutual Fund Business
Their two-year-old firm has entered '40 Act country with a fund that has six sub-advisors...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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A Value Shop Hires a HNW Marketer
The exec was formerly with Metropolitan West...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Borzi Trumpet's the GAO's Rollover Report
The EBSA chief recommends taking a look at the rollover report...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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The Jury Finds Hutcheson Guilty
The fallen independent fiduciary and outspoken industry critic will be sentenced this summer...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Transamerica Wins a College Plan from Fido
Robert Morris is switching RKers...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Mesirow Promotes Two
The fiduciary consultant has two moving up the ladder..
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Trade Groups Fight Obama's Budget Proposals
They're calling on Congress to stop the president...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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A Fixed Income Shop Hires a Chief Investment Strategist
The new hire will open a Boston office for the mutual fund shop...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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BlackRock's Earnings Jump 15 Percent
The investing goliath hits record AUM...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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BrightScope Wrangles Another Advisory Board Member
An industry veteran joins the data company...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Reader Rating: 5
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Boston Fundsters Respond to Marathon Attack
UPDATED | Most firms have accounted for all their employees, some still wait for word...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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IndexUniverse Questions Self-Indexing
One writer on why indexing firms have a place in the space...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Which Gold-Rated Fundsters Have Skin in the Game?
Morningstar drills down on which medalists invest in their own products...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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A High-Flying U.S. Bond Fund PM Crossed Two Borders
Reuters ponders a PM who used to Pick Stocks, in Canada..
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Jaffe Talks Mutual Fund Fees
Are your products worth the price?..
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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U.S. Retirement Partners Offers More Online Resources
The “microsite” offers the company’s employers and employees tools to learn about retirement planning...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Ulian Brings a DWS Vet to BofA
The new hire will focus on the sale of retirement plans for large companies...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Reader Rating: 4
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Federated Buys in London
Federated Investors has closed on an overseas buy...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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PenChecks Hires a First Mercantile Chief
The plan distributions specialist brings a legal vet on board...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Reader Rating: 2
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Private Equity Offers $258MM for an RIA Giant
The Lone Star State advisory firm has its own branded 401(k) offering...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Reader Rating: 3
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BPV Rebrands Following its Foray into '40 Act Funds
Five months after launching its first 40'Act funds, BPV Wealth Management is rebranding...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Touchstone Wraps a Deal and Augments a Relationship
Touchstone is in news again today...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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A 401k Vet Retires Without Leaving CapTrust
The Tar Heel State RIA says goodbye to one of its own while bringing him onto their advisory board...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Reader Rating: 3.67
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Hutcheson Pleads Not Guilty
Updated | The prominent independent fiduciary and industry critic has been arraigned on 31 counts...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Reader Rating: 2
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ABG Teams Up With a Trade Group
The alliance of TPAs amps up education for its own members' employees...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Amid Deals, Money Fund Sponsors See a Brighter Bottom Line
Federated's Donahue is shaking the trees seeking new deals as interest rates are boosting the bottom line...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Why is India "a Miserable Disappointment" for U.S. Fund Firms?
Barron's examines the barriers to entry in the mutual fund biz of the giant South Asian country...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Reader Rating: 1
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Commodity Fundsters Face a "Regulatory Land Grab"
The CFTC and the SEC are reportedly working on harmonizing their relevant regs...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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SVIA Members 'Put the Stable Back in Stable Value'
The stable value trade group wraps up its fifth annual spring seminar...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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Top 40 Advisor: Steve Dimitriou
This Boston-based independent Wachovia advisor lands in the top 40 DC advisors for 2009 as one of the ten finalists in the small market...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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American Funds Still Rules
What's new in the 401k industry? One service company explored which mutual funds are used the most in retirement plans. ..
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Reader Rating: 1
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Stowers Showered with Philanthropic Honors
The American Century founder gains recognition for his contributions to the fight against cancer...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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ING Mines Participants' Minds
The insurer conducts a study to gauge how participants feel about their retirement plans...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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ICI and IDC Draw 80 Fundsters to Talk About One Court Case
Jones v. Harris attracts lots of mutual fund industry attention...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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TIAA-CREF Finds a New Marketing Chief
A new marketing and communications head enters while another one leaves..
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Reader Rating: 2
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Stable Value Market Value Adjustment Leads to a $6.25 Million Settlement
Expect other attorneys to take notice of the $1.88 million payday one firm will take home for leading the charge against a plan sponsor that triggered an MVA when switching providers...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Reader Rating: 4.25
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Thorbahn Hunts for a Consultant
The company has hired a headhunter for help filling an empty position...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Reader Rating: 1
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Net Revenue More than Doubles at Columbia
Columbia Management saw its net revenue jump 118 percent in the first three months of the year...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Keeley Creates an Alternative Fund
The Chicago firm is increasing its line-up to a half-dozen..
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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Money Market Funds Hurt Schwab's Bottom Line
As reported in The Journal's Fund Track, quarterly revenue took a hit thanks to fee-waivers...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Pimco's Money Fund Chief Attacks ... Money Funds
A managing director at the Allianz firm speaks at an economics conference...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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Top Rochester Manager Departs OppFunds
The muni bond specialist will pass his portfolio management reins along next month...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Alert: II Folds DC News into Another Pub
Defined Contribution & Savings Plan Alert is merging with another publication...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Is Cieszko Making Cuts at Fidelity?
Industry insiders see execs departing the unit now led by the Evergreen alum...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Reader Rating: 5
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Aberdeen Gains Access to a DC Platform
The acquirer of the Nationwide actively managed fund business distributes its funds through a TPA...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Reader Rating: 2
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Fees and Transparency Push Small Businesses Away From DC
A bank with an outsourced 401k product unveils its latest research on the micro market...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Reader Rating: 4.67
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Chetney and Francis Eye Non-Qual Plans While Shifting Their Strategy
The NRP execs steers away from acquisitions, at least for the moment...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Principal Lightens the Load on its Bond Funds
Principal executives on Thursday unveiled steps aimed at getting investors off the sidelines...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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A Host of Law Firms Attack Two Oppenheimer Muni Bond Funds
The New York fund firm faces more class-action flak...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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A Federal Appeals Court Smiles on a Fund Fee Suit
The WSJ highlights a setback for one mutual fund firm defending itself in a suit over different prices for mutual funds and institutional separate accounts...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Reader Rating: 4
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Eyeing a Role at TALF, Fund Firms Talk Leverage with the SEC
Fund companies, including BlackRock, are asking the SEC to review rules that limit them from purchasing the type of securities at the center of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, the New York Post reports...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Reader Rating: 5
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Mutual of Omaha Unveils Expansion Plans for its New Sub
Mutual of Omaha plans to double the headcount at its new subsidiary, Retirement Marketing Solutions...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Consulting Giant Adds Stable Value Vet to its Ranks
The editor of the Stable Times has moved on from his day job.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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DoL Draws Battle Lines as Miller Bill is Sent to House
Updated | Brad Campbell criticized the Miller bill and trumpeted the DoL approach on disclosure on the same day that Miller and company rolled up their sleeves and sent HR 3185 to the House...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Transamerica Q1 Sales Jump 25 Percent
The Los Angeles-based provider won 380 plans in the first quarter, according its sales chief...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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NTGI Drops Three More ETFs onto NYSE
Northern Trust Global Investments continued its foray into the ETF market today...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Who Bought American Beacon?
A massive private equity firm threw its stake in as one of the buyers, but who is the other backer of the deal?..
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Reader Rating: 5
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GEAM Beefs Up its Mutual Fund Sales Team
GE Asset Management is building out its U.S. mutual fund advisor sales and support team...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Reader Rating: 2
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ING Forms Institutional Markets Team
ING has created a team to focus on big clients and prospects in the 457 and 403b markets...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Callan to Launch New UMA Program
Callan Associates has joined forces with Independent Adviser Group (IAG) and Natixis Global Associates’ Managed Portfolio Advisors (MPA) to launch a new UMA offering...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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UPDATE 1| Private Equity Buys American Beacon
American Airlines has found a buyer for its asset management arm.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Reader Rating: 5
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Private Equity Gains a Foothold in 401k Through American Beacon
After an on-again, off-again sales process, American Airlines has found a buyer for its asset management arm...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Midwestern Bank Draws More Stock Drop Attention
Another class action firm takes a jab over company stock in a big DC plan.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Janus Marketing Chief Takes the Reins at Fund Trusts
Janus Fund Trusts has a new chief...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Reader Rating: 4
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State Street Q1 Net Rises, But Stock Falls
In the Wednesday edition of the WSJ Fund Track column, Brett Philbin examined State Street Corp.'s Q1 results and investor concerns over the market value of securities held in the firm's investment portfolio.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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T. Rowe Offers Access To Annuity Marketplace
The Baltimore-based recordkeeper has linked arms with a Midwest firm...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Online 401Kayroll
A Bay area provider inks partnerships with nine independent firms in Q1.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Reader Rating: 1
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Optimism May Doom American Retirees
Americans are confident that they'll have enough money to support themselves during retirement, but nobody's thinking of healthcare...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Brokers Want More Info on Upcoming Proposals
Brokerage firms and money managers say that they are being kept in the dark about two unbundling proposals being put forward by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Department of Labor...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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NRP Member Talks PPA Through the WWW
A Southern California firm hires an online marketing specialist to let sponsors know how the retirement landscape has changed.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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SEC Helps Brokers Clean Up
The SEC has designed a tool to help brokers get clean when it comes to money laundering...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Conley Uses Client-Focus to Promote Genworth's ClearCourse
Genworth has developed a participant education program to help investors forecast their post-retirement income...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Smith Barney Not On Auction Block
Investment News reports that along with the news of the closure of 43 Smith Barney branch locations, have come the always pesky sale rumors. A Citigroup official said Smith Barney is not for sale, but at least one insider was skeptical. Stay tuned...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Managed Accounts Take Provider to the Brink
A Keystone State investment manager inks a distribution deal with a Midwestern provider.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Technology Is the Key
A recently released report says that technology is essential to funds in order to stay competitive...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Dreyfus See Trials and Opportunities in the Future
The future of the struggling Dreyfus brand is now uncertain after the sale of its parent company, Mellon...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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SEC To Release 401(k) Disclosure Proposal This Year
The commission's chief talks tough on fees and reveals plans for the creation of a formal rule proposal...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Gorman Makes Brokers Believers
It looks like James Gorman's "At-risk" book is working some magic at Morgan Stanley...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Delaware Investments Hires Head of Equity Investments
Michael J. Hogan has joined Delaware Investments, a affiliate of Lincoln Financial Group, as head of equity investments...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Funds Tripping Up Legg
The news for Legg Mason has not been all sunshine and roses since they swapped their brokerage arm for CitiGroups' fund business...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Reader Rating: 4.5
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Money Managers to SEC and DoL: Let Us in the Loop
Brokerage firms and money managers say that they are being kept in the dark about two unbundling proposals being put forward by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Department of Labor...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Rydex Adds Two New Funds
Rydex tries its hand at high yield bond funds...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3.12
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Beauty is in the I-O of the Beholder, er, Advisor
A new hire at a Charm City fund family fills a just created role.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Cox 12b-1 Comments Recall an SEC Pitfall
Chris Cox is talking tough when it comes to fees and the transformation of 12b-1 charges. His comments sound a lot like those made be Harvey Pitt a half decade ago...
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Monday, April 16, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.8
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Regs Eye Insurer
Federal and state regulators warned Conseco in January that it may bring charges against the insurer...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
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RFPs Reported This Week
A California plan searches for a new bundled provider ... DIA takes a Putnam client, and more...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
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Mass Consulting Firm Seeks Candidates
A Boston area consultant is now looking for a senior relationship manager as well as a head of business development for its DC and asset management practice...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
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Bond Fund Specialist Names CEO
The advisor to the $900 million of FFTW Funds expects business as usual under its newest CEO...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
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NYLIM Names New Head
The investment management company recruited its new president from Merrill Lynch...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
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Judge Authorizes Kmart Class Action
The company stock case against bankrupted bargain retailer is on track...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
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Arnott and AMG Butt Heads
Arnott says the agreement between First Quadrant and its parent was a non-partnership...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
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Executive Life Keeps Going ... and Going
California gets its court date with France almost 14 years after the GIC issuer collapse...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
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Wirehouse Adds Six Portfolios
The new managers are part of the top wirehouses regular evaluation of its wrap program...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Waterhouse Vets to Open Custodian
Peter Mangan and Robert Reed are going to take on their old employer...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Morningstar Adds Portfolios
The Chicago investment advisor adds six focused portfolios to the mix for advisors...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Putnam Lovell Buys Minority Stake in Manager
Mizuho Corporate Bank sells out of its stake in the Connecticut-based manager...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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National Geographic Society Switches Provider
The science and education organization taps a new bundled recordkeeper for its 401(k) and 403(b) plans...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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TD Mutual Funds Among Hot Canadian Funds
The firm was the best selling in Canada for the first quarter. Fidelity was one of the worst selling in March...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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FIIS Opens to Outside Funds in Small Plan Product
UPDATED Look for more changes this summer on top of the addition of Neuberger Berman and two other complexes to the Premium 401(k) product...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Reader Rating: 3.67
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DoL Says Loans Are OK
EBSA says that public firms can go ahead and offer participant loans despite Sarbanes-Oxley...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Reader Rating: 3.67
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Pan-Am Adds 401(k) Web Testing Tool
The added feature allows sponsors to receive year-to-date ADP and ACP data on-line...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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Battle Looms on Oregon 401k
The state legislator and governor are positioning for a coming battle over reform in the state retirement system...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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401k Helps Push Union to Strike
The pension plan is a key item in a strike by 4,000 builders of F-16s and other fighter jets...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Plan Formation in Japan Quadruples
The first full year of the Japanese defined contribution system saw plan formation take off...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Morningstar Integrates Advice Services
The new program aims to meet the needs of plan participants, sponsors and financial advisors with a menu of advice services...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Moon over Hartford
Moon Lake Electric has chosen a Connecticut provider for its 401k plan...
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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Old Wine in New Bottle
In a move on what's hot, fund firm converts product...
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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Tool Provider Dips Toe in Fund Waters
A Philly firm is broaching the fund market with its own fund analysis product...
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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Rocky Mountain High
Great West enters into a DC alliance to offer another firm's investment offerings...
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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Big Banks Merge
First Union and Wachovia Merge ... Deutsche Asset Management Appoints New CIO ... Touchstone Joins VA Partnership ... Strong Changes Advisory Agreement ... MyBenefitSource and Transamerica Announce Partnership ... American Century Promotes PMs..
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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Big Banks Merge
First Union and Wachovia Merge ... Deutsche Asset Management Appoints New CIO ... Touchstone Joins VA Partnership ... Strong Changes Advisory Agreement ... MyBenefitSource and Transamerica Announce Partnership ... American Century Promotes PMs..
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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Weitz Stays the Course
Fund family will not rock the boat after a strong 2000. ..
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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Two Vendors Work Together
FIIS and Bank One form alliance...
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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MassMutual Hands Out Pats on the Back
Promotions run rampant and the vendor...
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Monday, April 16, 2001
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Week of April 16, 1999
RFP Roundup
The Weekly Roundup is a regular column examining the RFPs that appeared on our pages and the pages of other publications this week...
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Friday, April 16, 1999
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Janus Twenty To Close Doors
Janus Capital Corp., the 12th-biggest U.S. mutual fund company, will close its top-performing Janus Twenty Fund to new investors after assets managed have quadrupled to $25.9 billion in the last year and a half. ..
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Friday, April 16, 1999
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Janus Twenty To Close Doors
Starting Monday, the Janus Twenty fund will follow in the footsteps of Magellan, New Opportunities, Primecap and Sequoia and close its doors to new investors...
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Friday, April 16, 1999
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Manager Changes at SEI
SEI Investments has terminated 1838 Investment Advisors and replaced it with Artisan Partners as one of four small-cap value managers for its manager-of-managers program...
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Friday, April 16, 1999
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DIA Replaces Ark with Newly Private RSIM
The private-again San Francisco manager has replaced Ark Asset Management in DIA's Special Equity fund...
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Friday, April 16, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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Fidelity Pay-to-Play Marketing
Fidelity's FundsNetwork supermarket is big enough -- over 3,300 funds -- that fund companies can feel lost in the shuffle. In order to call attention to certain funds, their managers, and holdings, Fidelity recently launched the FundsNetwork News magazine. The debut issue profiles seven managers in a "Growth vs Value" section and another three in an "International Investing" section. The fund company plans to print a second issue for the fall of 1999. Nice of them, isn't it?..
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Friday, April 16, 1999
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Reader Rating: 3
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Responses to USAs
On Wednesday, President Bill Clinton unveiled his proposals for Universal Pension Accounts (USAs). Not surprisingly, there were a number of reactions to the White House's planned legislation, both pro and con. The 401kWire.com presents two responses...
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Friday, April 16, 1999
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Odd Lots, April 16, 1999
Fund inflows fall by half ... Losing to the S&P? Blame the New Economy ... Value funds should be worth it...
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Friday, April 16, 1999
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Week of April 12, 1998
May, 1998. Money Magazine.
Penelope Wang in "What's Wrong with Your 401(k)" looks at the strengths and weaknesses of defined contribution plans and reaches the conclusion that some could do better. She looks at how too few options, how a sponsor's desire to spend as little as possible, and how a vendor's desire to maximize profits can leave participants lost in the shuffle. The 401kWire's own editor-in-chief Sean Hanna was quoted in the article as saying, "If you miss six years of saving, it's much more difficult to build the nest egg you need."..
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Thursday, April 16, 1998
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J.P. Morgan/American Century Spotlights Participant with Audience of One
First, J.P. Morgan and American Century formed a partnership, effective March 15, 1998. Now, the new J.P. Morgan/American Century entity is aggressively pursuing a philosophy it calls Audience of One (TM), which basically places the focus of the 401(k) program on the participant and not the sponsor. American Century originated the concept prior to the formation of the alliance. With this strategy, the combined DC unit hopes to become one of the top three providers of 401(k)'s in the country...
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Thursday, April 16, 1998
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Reader Rating: 3
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Global Marine Eliminates Waiting Period
Houston, TX-based Global Marine, Inc. has eliminated the one year waiting period for its 401(k) plan, Doug Freede, director of benefits and compensation, told the 401kWire. The plan has an estimated 1,000 participants with approximately $38 million in assets...
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Thursday, April 16, 1998
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Reader Rating: 3
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