Making 401ks Easier In Challenging Times
A prominent behavioral economist offers tips for helping participants navigate retirement savings decisions...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
T. Rowe Price's $167B-AUM New Unit
The publicly traded asset manager is creating a new, similarly branded arm...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
TSP Adds Two Vendors
BlackRock will split the giant DC plan's investment lineup with another big asset manager...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
GRPAA Teams Up On PTO
The KPA network is rolling the alliance out over this quarter and the next...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
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Small Fund Firms Remain Almost $22B In the Red
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for October 2020 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
On Long Island, a $2B-AUA KPA Team Sells
The team is moving to a nearby office while keeping their B-D, OSJ, and RIA affiliations unchanged...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
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A 26-Year Fidelity Vet Exits
After serving several different positions with the firm, this executive parts ways and is "open to job opportunities."..
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
An Rker's LA Crowd Moves
Their local team is now based in downtown Los Angeles...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
PE Buys and Combines Two MF Servicers
The combined firm will have about $150 billion in AUA and support more than 840 funds. The two companies have more than 500 staff in total...
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Monday, November 19, 2018
Two-Thirds of the Giants Suffer Outflows
M* updates flows data for ETFs and long-term open-end mutual funds for October 2018...
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Monday, November 19, 2018
Abby Picks Charlie's Successor
The Fidelity scion chooses a 22-year company veteran to take over the asset management division...
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Monday, November 19, 2018
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Once Upon a Time ...
An industry marketing guru urges KPAs to move beyond their value propositions, by telling stories...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
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Reader Rating:1
Cap Group Teams Up With a TAMP
The giant mutual fund shop from the City of Angels is the inspiration behind, and a key ally of, a new series of portfolios. It all comes back to what Cap Group sees as two key drivers of outperformance: low fees, and PMs who eat their own cooking...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
Fidelity Promotes Financial Wellness
The Boston Behemoth's latest initiative is to help plan sponsors and KPAs create financial wellness programs...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
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Reader Rating:4.5
Chris Davis Is Retiring From MMI
After 17 years, the trade group's founding president is saying goodbye. The search is on for his successor...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
A KPA Duo Aligns With Blue Prairie Group
...An ERISA-focused RIA recently affiliated with an institutional consulting firm in Chitown...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
An Industry Pub Appoints Two Honchos
InvestmentNews names a new associate publisher and director of custom content and programming...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Fink Has a Lot to Say About the Markets
The BlackRock CEO talked to Bloomberg television on a variety of subjects tied to regulation and the markets...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Hartford's Reiss Hires in the West
He lures a salesperson from Fido to reach out to non-wire house advisors...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
American Century Offers a 401k Plan Exam
Plan Health ProSM measures a retirement plan's health, retirement readiness and due diligence...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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A New ETF Shop Sees Reality
Firm aims to add a new twist to fundamental investing...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Rekenthaler Talks Lunch, Coffee and 401k Fees
Morningstar's John Rekenthaler analyzes a study scrutinizing the "hidden and excessive" costs of 401ks. ..
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
A Zombie ERISA Suit Stalks SunTrust
The bank is being sued, again, for offering its own mutual funds through its 401(k).
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Monday, November 19, 2012
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A Financial Planning Giant Enters 401k
A Virginia-based firm launches its own retirement plan offering...
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Friday, November 19, 2010
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Schwab Seeks Help in the Southwest
The Bay Area brokerage has a couple of open positions to be filled in the South for its retirement plan unit.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
McQuaid Plans to Take a Breather
The lead PM of the $16.7 billion Columbia Acorn Fund is going on a three-month sabbatical next year...
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Schwab's YieldPlus Settlement is On Again
Under the new proposal, shareholders could only pursue outside claims individually if they opt out of the settlement...
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Friday, November 19, 2010
LPL Has the Last Laugh, Says the WSJ
The WSJ looks at the two IPOs yesterday, GM and LPL...
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Friday, November 19, 2010
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ING Fills a Northeast Sales Post
ING names the new leader of the northeast region for the intermediary corporate markets unit, which recently passed the $2 billion mark in sales this year...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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DTCC Rings in a Decade
The Manhattan-based clearing house marks its 10th birthday on Thursday with a trip to the NYSE...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
A DC Provider Nears a Product Launch
Insiders should be on the lookout, as a provider prepares a new retirement plan offering...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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ICMA-RC Says 'It Pays to Save'
Washington DC 457 specialist ICMA-RC imparts some knowledge on governmental plan sponsors..
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Fidelity Helps Almost 170 Brokers Go Independent
The Boston Behemoth also unveils a tool to help wirehouse brokers weigh the costs and benefits of striking out on their own...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Lord Abbett Twitters Away
The 80-year-old money manager creates a Twitter account and unveils a new Web site geared toward advisors...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Reader Rating:5
Borzi Officially Returns the Advice Rule to the Drawing Board
Updated | Shortly after postponing the effective date for participant-level fiduciary advice regs yet again, the DoL pulls the regs completely and vows to start over...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Putnam Continues its Hiring Spree
The Beantown-based fund company has three new faces in its DC team...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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BofA Holds on to Columbia's Money Funds
BofA has decided not to sell the cash management business of its asset manager...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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New York Life Adds a Trio of DC I-O Hires
Jeff Keller brings on board three wholesalers as part of a push to raise DC I-O assets...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Weekly Long-Term Fund Flows Almost Triple
Inflows for non-money market mutual funds rose to $8.42 billion with hybrid and bond funds posting higher inflows and equity funds seeing smaller outflows...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
SEC Greenlights Prospectus Proposal
The commission on Wednesday voted unanimously to require fund firms to provide summary prospectuses in a clear, concise manner...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
An I-O Player Gains Ties to MassMutual
The investment manager, which began focusing on the DC space two years ago, now has relationships with 21 recordkeepers...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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The Reserve Hires a Liquidator
The beleaguered money fund specialists bring a fixed income vet to help them distribute assets from two shuttered funds...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Federal Indictment Shackles Vanguard with Cheney
A Texas grand jury drags the fund giant into the limelight thanks to the outgoing vice president of the United States...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Principal Lines Up for TARP Funds
The Des Moines, Iowa-based firm applies to receive as much as $2 billion under the Treasury program...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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SEC to Vote on Summary Prospectus Proposal
The commission will vote on a proposal that would require fund firms to provide investors with a summary prospectus...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
WSJ Spotlights Barclay's Bet on Target-Date ETFs
The San Francisco asset manager's foray into target-date ETFs gains coverage in Wednesday's WSJ Fund Track.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Principal: Auto Use Tripled in '06
The number of Principal's plan sponsor clients offering at least one auto feature nearly tripled in 2006...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Insurer Clams Up On GICs
A guaranteed investment contract provider has decided to stop releasing rate quotes.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
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BlackRock Appoints New Head of DC-IO Biz
The New York City-based money management giant has tapped a replacement for Doug DuMond, who left the company a few months ago...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
PNC Unloads Hillard Lyons
PNC Financial Services Group has sold its full service brokerage subsidiary, J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons to Bowling Green, Ky.-based Houchens Industries, Inc...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
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Pershing Advisor Solutions Outlines the Advisor of the Future
Pershing Advisor Solutions has released a new study entitled Fast Forward: The Advisor of the Future, which builds on ideas put fourth in a previous study entitled, Uncharted Waters: Navigating the Forces Shaping the Advisory Industry..
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Monday, November 19, 2007
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Bowne Unifies Operations Under New President
Bowne & Co. is unifying its financial communications and marketing & business communications operations in order to better service clients...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Morgan Stanley to Add 900 to Maryland Operation
Morgan Stanley plans to add about 900 jobs to its Baltimore office in the next decade...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
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CapTrust Expands Brain Trust and Builds New Digs
The Tar Heel State group of retirement plan specialists brings in two industry players for its advisory board while breaking ground on a new HQ. And more growth is right around the corner.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
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Consumers Ignore Money Market Warnings
Even amid concerns about their exposure to risky investments, consumers continued to pour their dollars into money market funds this month...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Raymond James Gets a Seal of Approval from Dalbar
Raymond James' new enhanced client statement has garnered the support of financial services consultant, Dalbar, which recently ranked it third-best among a field of 23 firms...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
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Lord Abbett Notches 10K Milestone
Officials at the Garden State-based investment manager said their funds are now in more than 10,000 401k plans...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
FINRA Takes Aim at Variable Annuity Sales
A new FINRA rule may deter the sale of inappropriate deferred variable annuities...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
PowerShares Plans Three ETF of ETFs
The Wheaton, Illinois-based firm plans to launch three ETFs that will hold other PowerShares ETFs...
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Remaining Fund Reforms May Stall Until 2005
Although investors late trading and market timing were behind the majority of the fund scandal cases, it looks like the SEC’s two proposed regulations to stop those abuses will not be passed in their current forms, if at all, says James Delaplane, partner at Washington, D.C.-based law firm Davis & Harman and Beltway insider...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
Fidelity Adds Advisor Tools
Fidelity Investments is bulking up its advisor offering. Clients of the newly launched Fidelity Advisor Retirement Income Services unit now have access to additional materials to help investors plan for retirement.
Fidelity is making online tools available for advisors to hold and conduct seminars, such as an investor presentation, invitation and follow-up templates, and other marketing materials. Advisors will also have access to a new workbook that was designed to help advisors walk their clients through a four-step process to create a customized retirement plan...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
EBSA Wins Judgement Against Tenn. Sponsor
The judgement appoints a new administrator for the $750,000 plan and calls for $30,000 in restoration...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
ExpertPlan Offers Solo Plan with a new Unique Flavor
The plan administrator and recordkeeper has a new product for one person companies. But it may not be what you expect...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
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One Million Get Online Advice on Paper
You may not think a company based in Silicon Valley and headed by a Stanford MBA as stuck in the Stone Age...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
Son of EGTRRA Conceived
A Beltway insider gives his predictions on stalled retirement legislation and a possible due date for new legislation...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
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Is Fido Booking Passage to Korea?
Fidelity Investments has filed with South Korean regulators to set up an affiliate in the country, reports the Korea Herald. Fidelity filed to set up an affiliate worth approximately $9.27 million. If Korea's Financial Supervisory Commission approves the request and issues a permit, Fidelity could start operating in the country in 2005, according to the Herald...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
Putnam Chairman Resigns from MMC Board
A.J.C. Smith, chairman of Putnam Investments, has resigned from the board of directors of Marsh & McLennan. MMC also announced that four other members of its board would step down, including Peter Coster, president of Mercer; Charles Davis, vice chairman of the board and chairman and chief executive officer of MMC Capital; and Ray Groves, senior advisor of Marsh...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
Comey Probes Bear Stearns
The Feds are looking into whether hedge funds used Bear Stearns as a conduit for improper fund trades...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Report Alleges Van Eck Helped Canary
A published report alleges that Van Eck struck a deal with Canary...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Oregon Fires Putnam
This time Putnam loses a $500 million mandate after a consultant places it on its review list...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
SEC Looking at Funds on Morgan Stanley Select List
The brokerage firm has identified the sixteen funds on its Partners Program list. The SEC is taking a look at whether those funds have liabilities for their participation...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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Great-West Picks Up 649 Plans in Deal
Great-West Retirement Services has taken over 649 retirement plans from another insurer exiting the industry...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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House Passes Baker Bill in Landslide
The 418-2 vote leaves little doubt about which way the wind blows. Not that there was any...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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New Jersey Sponsor Drops Putnam Funds
A drugmaker joins the list of plan sponsors eliminating Putnam from its 401k sponsor...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Bisys Goes to Market
The firm ups its stock buyback limit...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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Nevada dumps Strong
Nevada College Savings program terminates its relationship while Wisconsin rethinks its relationship with the firm...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Two More Firms Subpeonaed
The Massachusetts and New Hampshire probe widens...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Bisys Launches New Plan Tool
Perks for TPAs, Financial Advisors and Plansponsors...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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Undiscovered Managers Taps Deeper Pockets
The advisor-focused firm has found a buyer with what it hopes are the resources it needs to build its business...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Delaware VP Leaves
The company will not say why he left, but he could have had good reasons...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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Congress Promises Action on Reforms
The calendar leaves little time for sausage making though. Look for quicker action from the SEC...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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Fund Firms May Have a Role Model at MFS
The oldest fund firm is quietly taking steps to stay ahead of the fund scandals...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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Going Inside a 529 Program
The fund scandals prompt USA Today to go digging in Wisconsin. What it found will not surprise you...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
TPA Readies Rebalancing Tool
A Northern California-based firm is putting together a tool to let participants rebalance their accounts the easy way...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
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SunGard Executive Passes Away
A senior vice president and former marketer for SunGard Corbel died suddenly last weekend...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
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Union Taps MassMutual as Bundled Provider
The ability of the insurer to handle union plan features cinched the deal...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
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dailyVest Launches Asset Allocator Development Tool
The Arizona-based firm is adding to the investment allocation tool set it offers to financial services firms...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
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GE Unit Linking with B-Ds
The private asset management arm of GE said it would have more deals done by the first quarter of 2003...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
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Minneapolis B/D to Grow SMA Platform
The bank unit is moving to a new platform as part of a plan to add 15 new managers...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Fund Manager Sentenced
The proprietor of a Florida index fund gets five years...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
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A Billion Dollar Loss in Company Stock
Enron locked down its plan to participant reallocations for four weeks as the value of its stock evaporated.
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Dreyfus at Citizens
Citizens Bank will offer Dreyfus mutual funds to its customers...
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Great-West Signs On
The insurer is the latest to distribute its product through the 401k search site.
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Guardian Web Gets Nip and Tuck
The bundled vendor takes the veil off after a facelift for its Web.
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Montgomery Cruises Online
The San Francisco firm has a new web offering to coincide with an effort to market funds through a new channel...
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Coming and Going?
A day after swapping vendors, Conoco is being acquired by Phillips Petroleum. So what will happen with the retirement programs? No one knows yet, but things always look brighter for the vendor serving the acquiror...
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Monday, November 19, 2001
Online Push for Wechsler Ross
The marketing firm is now doing onto itself what it has done on to others with a new redesign for its website...
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Al Gore Now in Financial Services
Former VP at Metropolitan ... CFSB Brokers Face Smaller Commissions ... Coming and Going?..
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Al Gore Now in Financial Services
Former VP at Metropolitan ... CFSB Brokers Face Smaller Commissions ... Coming and Going?..
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Five Feeling Strong
Five sponsors have tapped Strong Retirement Plan Services for defined contribution services...
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Monday, November 19, 2001
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Trust Info Made Easy
Business Logic is introducing a new system for financial services institutions to better keep track of clients' assets...
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Friday, November 19, 1999
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Investor Group Serves Up Beans For Frank's Fund
The Al Frank Fund and Frank's newsletter, The Prudent Speculator have been sold to a Minneapolis investor group...
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Friday, November 19, 1999
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Week of November 19, 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, November 19, 1999
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The Limited Tries on New Provider
Columbus, Ohio-based The Limited, Inc. has tapped American Express Retirement Services for bundled services for its 401(k) plan. The plan has $430 million in assets and, according to The Money Market Directory, 1999, 35,000 participants...
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Friday, November 19, 1999
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Fidelity Updates Advisor Services
Fidelity has launched a new program to help intermediaries with step-by-step business building tools...
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Friday, November 19, 1999
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New Financial Engines Alliance
Financial Engines has added another
feather to its cap. Today it announced that Alliance Benefit Group formed a strategic alliance with the employee benefits organization to offer advice to the sponsors it provided recordkeeping for...
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Friday, November 19, 1999
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Participants to Pay For
Financial Engines cuts a deal with Alliance Benefit...
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Friday, November 19, 1999
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Odd Lots, November 19, 1999
The double the money club ... Active managers strike gold ... Activist blast Hancock again...
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Friday, November 19, 1999
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Stable Value Alert for November 11
Despite all of the talk of rising interest rates, GIC rates fell this week. The average quote dropped 3 basis points while Treasury rates fell 2 bps.
*All rates are for non-benefit responsive, investment-only contracts with a value of $5 million. Rates are net of all expenses, with no commissions payable. Treasury quotes are for close of business Wednesday.
Strong Intros New Educational Service
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-headquartered Strong Retirement Plan Services is introducing its Strong Choices(SM). The service is designed to help participants who are leaving their current employer (whether due to lay-offs, retirements, or job change) and may need assistance in rolling-over their 401(k) assets...
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Thursday, November 19, 1998
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Money to Restructure Its 401k Publications
Time, Inc. is restructuring its division that publishes editorial content for the 401(k) plan market. The 401kWire.com has learned that both "My Money", and "Managing Your Future" are going to be moved from under Money Magazine to Time, Inc.'s Custom Publishing division...
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Thursday, November 19, 1998
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Walker Interactive Taps New Provider
San Francisco, California-based Walker Interactive Systems (Nasdaq: WALK)has chosen New York Life Benefit Services, Inc. to be the bundled provider for the company’s 401(k) plan. The plan has 390 participants and $25 million in assets...
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Thursday, November 19, 1998
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