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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Gomez Asks For Data. Will Sponsors Heed EBSA's Request?
The DoL arm's team is officially preparing to roll out a new database in a month...
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Friday, November 29, 2024
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Expect This DC Ret Income Tool to Go Live With PS In 2025
A C-suiter at one of the firms talks about the new offering behind their partnership...
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Friday, November 29, 2024
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Busque Updates a Key 2023 Payroll Partnership
Guideline is now part of this payroll provider's "enhanced mobile experience."..
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Friday, November 29, 2024
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Goldman Pulls Ahead With $21B, But Industry Inflows Slow
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for October 2024 for money market mutual funds...
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Friday, November 29, 2024
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With a 2025 Deal, a $9B-AUMA AM Will Come to Gotham
The folks at a Tar Heel ETF strategist are preparing to buy an 18-year-old fund firm in the Empire State...
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Friday, November 29, 2024
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NBS Prepares to Power a Buffalo PEP
The planned launch date for this PEP is on January 1, 2025...
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Friday, November 29, 2024
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$31.6B In Outflows Break a 12-Month Streak
The M* team updates U.S. flows data for October 2023 for money market mutual funds...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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In 2024, a $150MM-AUA MEP Will Evolve Into ...
The MEP is scheduled to transform into a PEP...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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PenChecks Hires a Florida ERISA Vet
The new hire at PenChecks comes in with ERISA law experience...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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$2B In AUA, 50,000 Participants, 75 Employers, And ...
A publicly traded insurance broker's team celebrates a big milestone for a retirement plan offering...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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Eight Years In, a $159MM-AUM Fund Transforms
A closed-end fund recently converted into an ETF, mostly powered by the same providers...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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A $4B-AUMA Multi-Boutique Adds a 4th Fund to a New Suite
The first three funds in the lineup have grown to more than $325 million in AUM in three months...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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There Are 12 New Nominees Today. Vote Now!
We need your help! The 401kWire team is once again working on a list of the Most Influential People In Defined Contribution...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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22 Years In, a TPA Founder Will Pass the Reins
Updated | A 12-year company veteran is preparing to take over the Southwestern shop...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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An RKer Chief Takes Over a New Advisory Board
Updated | The board is one of four new ones created by an industry trade group...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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75 Years, $1.3T In AUM
The team at an asset management titan celebrated a big milestone earlier this month...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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Reader Rating: 2
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What About PEP Audits?
A TPA calls for clarification from federal regulators...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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A Two-Time Fundster Entrepreneur Dies At 79
The executive passed away last week, at home...
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Monday, November 29, 2021
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For Ret Income, a $34.6B-AUM DC System Teams Up
A DC I-O giant is partnering with a 300,000-participant group of defined contribution plans on a retirement income solution...
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Monday, November 29, 2021
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An RIA Co-Founder Tackles DC Industry Recruitment
A former KPA launches a new venture...
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Monday, November 29, 2021
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A 15-Year New York Life Vet Joins MMA
The new hire will serve as a retirement consultant...
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Monday, November 29, 2021
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Week In Preview, November 29 - December 5
This week, the teams at ASPPA, EBRI, Faegre Drinker, Fi360, NAPA, and Vestwell are hosting events...
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Monday, November 29, 2021
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Week In Preview, November 29 - December 5
This week, the teams at Hennessy, MFDF, and Nicsa are hosting events...
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Monday, November 29, 2021
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A B-D's Funds Lead Again
The M* team updates flows data for October 2019 for ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds...
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Friday, November 29, 2019
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An Ex-Hancock SVP Joins USI
The moves comes after the exec spent 17 years at John Hancock...
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Friday, November 29, 2019
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PEI Optimizes Online
The team encourages plan sponsors to subscribe to the new site’s mailing list for the latest in the retirement plan industry...
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Friday, November 29, 2019
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Meet Alps Advisors' New Chief
The freshly appointed head of the mutual fund and ETF shop and SS&C subsidiary talks to his hometown paper...
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Friday, November 29, 2019
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Schroedle Expands a Group That Counsels OneAmerica
The group was created last year. New members will join in 2020...
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Friday, November 29, 2019
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If Referrals Are Not Your Thing ...
An acquisitive RIA chief pushes back against referral requests in wealth management. Perhaps some KPAs may find his message applicable, too...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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Resources and Triad Win Over an East Coast NRP Alum
A 12-year-old KPA shop shifts its allegiance...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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After Hiring on the West Coast, a Midwestern Entrepreneur Keeps Hunting
A liquid alts chief is looking for more external wholesalers...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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Milliman Gives Participants a New Lock
The team at the RKer launches a new security feature for their retirement plan participants...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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Wells Fargo Launches an Online Center For Older Participants
The team at the bundled provider also launched new targeted messages...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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Workers Aren't Saving Early Enough or Nearly Enough, and They Know It
A new report highlights how much Americans delay saving for retirement...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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Principal's Everett to Retire After 27 Years
Everett to step down by the end of March from Principal’s retirement business. ..
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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Faust Wants Diversification Deals, Not Scale Ones
The Eaton Vance chief talks about the publicly traded asset manager's fiscal 2018 results...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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How Much Do Employees Value the 401k Match?
New research suggests that most workers value higher benefits, especially health insurance and a 401(k), over higher pay...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
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Global X Tops Inflows Twice in a Row
Among fund firms with between $1 billion and $10 billion in AUM, the ETF shop brought in more net inflows than any other, per M* estimates...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
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Fidelity Restores Participants' Web Access
The world's largest 401(k) recordkeeper suffered what a spokesman is describing as an internal technology issue...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
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Zuraitis Hires an Ameritas Exec To Head Retirement
There is a new hire at a Springfield, Illinois retirement and insurance firm...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
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Is Indexing Distorting Prices?
A BlackRock co-founder publicly pushes back against another criticism of index funds and ETFs...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
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Pru-Managed 401k Plan Under Investigation
The plaintiff claims Prudential, under cover of service fees has entered into revenue-sharing agreements with mutual funds. ..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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Reader Rating: 3.33
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Filings for Fundsters - November 29, 2016
A compilation of the latest SEC filings!..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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A New York Firm Joins The Mutual Fund Biz
Ultimus helps an Empire State shop launch its first mutual fund...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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Poll Finds Advisors Want DoL Rule Revoked
The trade association survey asked advisors if President-elect Trump should repeal the DoL fiduciary rule. ..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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T. Rowe Offers Schwab Services to Retirement Clients
T. Rowe Price expands its Schwab self-directed brokerage service to all recordkeeping retirement clients and their participants. ..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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PlanMember Services Chooses Platform
The retirement and investment management firm goes with FolioDynamix for technology and trading services. ..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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Valic Advisors Fined Over Annuity Sales
FINRA slaps the firm with a penalty for misconduct. ..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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The Race For Pioneer Comes Down to Three
The field has reportedly narrowed to a trio of bidders in UniCredit's auction of its multinational asset management arm...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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Three Things to Know From Eaton Vance's Q4 2013 Earnings
The Beantown mutual fund giant's executives explain their results to the analyst crowd...
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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iShares Gives This ETF More Flexibility
The BlackRock unit switches indexes for one of its offerings...
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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Fundster Chiefs, Promise Bigger 2014 Bonuses
A mutual fund industry recruiter prognosticates about the hiring market and offers tips to execs looking to weather the storm...
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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Reader Rating: 2
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Schlichter's Boeing Suit Gets a Shot in the Arm
An appeals court in Illinois rejected Boeing's request for appeal of plaintiffs' class-action designation. ..
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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Bob Blair Is Bulking Up Retirement Alliance
The CEO of RAI has made a promotion, a hire, and predicts two more positions to be filled in 2014. ..
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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Reader Rating: 1
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Rekenthaler Prefers Cash, Not Bonds
The M* guru looks at the current fixed income landscape...
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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Bogle v. Bogle
The WSJ profiles the Vanguard founder's wayward son who left the indexing fold long ago...
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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Congruent Offers RKers a New Software CORE
The outsourcing specialists are launching their own next-generation platform for 401k providers...
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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Can DFA Be the Intel of 401k?
Forbes profiles the mutual fund giant's retirement plan efforts...
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Friday, November 29, 2013
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Reader Rating: 5
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LPL Steps In After a Shakeup at a Key 401k Ally
A top exec leaves a firm that supports some of the indie B-D's top retirement plan advisors. LPL promises "seamless support" for affected advisors...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Reader Rating: 3.33
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Schroders Pushes Beyond Its U.S. Beachhead
After aggressively expanding its sales force, the London import is ready for next step in U.S. invasion...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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M*'s New Ratings Praise FPA, Demote Bogle and Lord Abbett
With the latest round of analyst rankings, more controversial decisions...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Lincoln Financial Adds to RM Team
The Philadelphia-area recordkeeper has expanded its team of client specialists...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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BMO Unveils a Tax-Free Fund
Municipal product will be BMO's 24th mutual fund...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Fidelity Wins an $8B Plan from Aon Hewitt
The plan will switch at the beginning of the year...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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New York Life Has a New Stable Value Product
The new product is designed for smaller plans...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Reader Rating: 5
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Pioneer Wants a Regional VP
The exec will work to maximize fund sales in the metro DC area...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Knight Weighs the Virtu of Two Billion-Dollar Bids
Two other market markers reportedly made their offers yesterday, with backing different parts of the street...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Rumors Continue to Swirl Around the SEC Chair
With the chairman-designate saying she doesn't want to be in the position long-term, there is continued speculation of what is to come...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Fidelity Prods BNY Melon on FX Pricing
Boston behemoth wants stricter pricing for foreign exchange trades...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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BlackRock's Neither a Bond Gorilla Nor Wall Street
A biz pub publishes an in-depth profile of BlackRock's chief...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Invesco Joins the Fee War Fray
The firm has lowered the expense ratios on six PowerShares ETFs...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Could Old Mutual Go the Way of ING?
Reuters article says IPO likely for firm's U.S. asset management biz...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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SunGard Expects Pairing to Make for a Wiser Platform
SunGard is looking to make annual enrollment meetings for those on its Relius platform a thing of the past for its participants. Pass the cookie, anyone?..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Forward Goes Retail With a Fifth Real-Estate Fund
The California mutual fund firm adds investor shares to another product...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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SEI Overlays a New Layer of Mutual Fund Structure
The turnkey outsourcer teams up with Parametric Portfolio Associates for what SEI claims is an industry first...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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REM Gets Into the Retirement Business
Updated | An industry player offers a new service to B-Ds and providers...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Reader Rating: 1
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Fund Options are in Play as Matches Return
Nearly two-thirds of plan sponsors changed their investment menus in 2010. That is way up from 2009/..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Participants Not in a Retirement Income State of Mind
A new Franklin survey sheds some light on retirement income...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Virtus is Hiring
Virtus Investment Partners is creating a sales team dedicated to the independent broker and RIA channels...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Putnam Wins Away a Schwab Mega Plan
The California-based plan sponsor is also revamping its investment lineup to boost its participation and deferral rates...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Reader Rating: 4.76
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Cap Group Shakes up American Funds Institutional Sales
Capital Research and Capital Guardian have teamed up to form a new institutional distribution arm for American Funds...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Gross, Miller Fall Further From Grace
Is this the nail in the coffin for star mutual fund managers?..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Reader Rating: 4
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Legg Mason MINTs Its First ETF
Mark Fetting and his team will officially enter the active exchange-traded mutual fund game next year...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Meet the Mutual Fund Industry's Most Influential People
Who is shaping the course of the mutual fund industry? It may not be who you think it is...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Now in iTunes: JPMorgan's Insights
JPMorgan Funds have made their Insights podcasts available on iTunes...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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'Cooling Off' Period is Over for a Vanguard Fund
Vanguard reopens a $693 million mutual fund...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Putnam Tweaks Pricing on its Absolute Return Funds
Bob Reynolds and co. brought down expense ratios for the absolute return funds by as much as 54 percent...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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PenChecks Wins More Distributions Clients
One 401(k) distribution specialist says it is doing brisk business with other outsourcers. ..
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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MassMutual Automates for TPAs
MassMutual is looking to make life easier for TPAs, even those who don't have plans on its platform. ..
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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OneAmerica Offers a Keene New Platform
The Indianapoli-based plan provider unveils an offering for larger plans. ..
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Reader Rating: 3.5
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ING Plans to Take Two Funds Off the Menu
The liquidations are expected to take place early next year...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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AllianceBernstein Links Up with Three Insurers for its Target-Date Offering
The New York asset manager launches target-dates with a guaranteed income component...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Reader Rating: 3
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Great-West Makes a Pair of New Hires
Among the new recruits is a wholesaler from Transamerica...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Reader Rating: 5
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Borzi Unveils a Proposed Rule on Target-Date Disclosure
The DoL proposes new disclosure rules for target date funds and other default investments...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Reader Rating: 4
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The Grass is Green on Diamond Hill
The hometown paper profiles the value shop founded a decade ago by a Loomis Sayles veteran...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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An ING Alum Takes Over Sales for a TPA
The New England-based firm also adds an ERISA compliance director to its team...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Pioneer CIO Talks Loans
Kenneth Taubes favors leveraged loans over high-yield bonds...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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AA = Inspirational? So Says DFA's Booth
A dying financial and believer in DFA's message gets a plug for his book in the New York Times...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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An AMG Affiliate and Columbia Were Also Kinnucan Clients
Add two more mutual fund names to the list of those that tapped the skills of John Kinnucan. Meanwhile, is Steve Cohen the real target?..
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Do Real-Return Funds Offer Real Returns?
The WSJ offers some alternatives to TIPS...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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529s Outperform Average Mutual Funds
The WSJ takes a look at the college savings vehicles...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Dyson Leaves BlackRock
Andrew Dyson is leaving the largest asset management shop in the world.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Gorman Moves Up at Morgan Stanley
Less than two years after joining Morgan Stanley from Merrill Lynch as its brokerage chief, James Gorman is getting a bigger role at the firm...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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SEC Summarizes Summary Prospectus
The SEC has published a sample of what the new mutual fund "summary prospectus" should include...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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PowerShares Powering Up Active ETFs
PowerShares has beat out other ETF companies by filing the first prospectus for actively-managed ETFs with the SEC...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3.67
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Integrity Integrates New Regional Director
Bob Corrigan has been named the regional director for Illinois and Wisconsin at Integrity Mutual funds...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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One Provider Eyes Growth Through Wholesalers and Acquisitions
The Midwestern firm's sales chief outlines plans to expand his internal and external teams while launching a new product and hunting for a buy.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 2.43
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Hoosier Advisor Doles Out Fiduciary Advice
One retirement plan specialist becomes the first in her Midwestern state to get a new certification.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 1
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Mother Merrill Faces More Company Stock Flak
A Big Apple class action firm looks into the beleaguered wirehouse's DC plan.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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New York B-D Fined for Facilitating Market TIming
The B-D was fined $350,000 and ordered to pay $59,605 in restitution...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Protesters Pick on Goldman
There was reportedly a misguided protest in front of Goldman Sachs' downtown Manhattan office yesterday...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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The Reserve Ranks Third Among Family-Owned U.S. Asset Managers
The New York firm has been ranked as the third largest family-owned fund company in the U.S...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Wolverine RIA Adds More Client Relationship Claws
The retirement plan shop brings in four more team members.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Deputy Enforcement Chief is Leaving the SEC
Peter Bresnan, the deputy director of enforcement for the SEC will leave the commission on December 5 to join law firm, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Pru Drops the Name of its New CEO, More Personnel Announcements Expected
The Newark-based insurer has picked the vice chairman of its investment division as its new CEO...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3.33
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E*Trade CEO in for Some Much Needed Capital
A white knight has ridden out of the Citadel to rescue E*Trade from its sub-prime woes. The online broker's CEO has also stepped down...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Reader Rating: 3
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Money Market Funds Continue Asset Climb
Despite the widely publicized problems in some money funds, un-fazed investors continue to pour money in to them...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Frontier-Market Funds Seen to Take Off
In today's Wall Street Journal Fund Track column, Claudia Assis writes about the growing interest in frontier markets in developing nations...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Bond ETFs Seen as a Rival to Traditional Bond Mutual Funds
An explosion in bond ETFs has led to triple-digit growth rates for the relatively new products...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Morningstar to Keep an Extra Eye on CITs
The Chicago firm will start collecting collective investment trusts' gross returns next year.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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US Bank VP Jumps To Standard
The exec has filled the newly created role of director of communication and large plan sales...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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401kExchange.com Sports New Look
The Lake Worth, Florida-based market research firm, which turned ten this year, unveiled a sleek new look for its Web site...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Reader Rating: 1
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Layoffs at RSM McGladrey Cast Ominous Cloud
Three executives in the Minnesota firm's retirement unit get the boot and another score of employees are let go.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Reader Rating: 4.5
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Next Wave of Fee Litigation Hits Principal First
An Illinois law firm has built on Schlichter, Bogard & Denton's example and expanded the 401k fee-related cases to plan providers. Principal was first and Lincoln and Hartford may be next...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Reader Rating: 4.33
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401DisKonnected
An online RFP marketplace pulls the plug...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Kmart Settles Company Stock Suit
The defunct plan sponsor intends to tap a liability policy to pay the $11 million settlement...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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CPI Gears Up for Roth Rollout
The third-party administrator will have its Roth 401k ready for clients at the start of the year...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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Reader Rating: 4.78
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Newport Joins Forces With Software Maker Again
Newport gets a renewal for its asset allocation models from a long-time partner...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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Millennium Partners Could Reach Deal With Regulators This Week
Federated Investors may not be the only one settling state and federal charges of improper trading this week. It may be joined by a hedge fund...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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NASD Looks at Sales of Out of State 529 Plans
The practice of selling college savings plans from another state than the investors’ is raising eyebrows at the NASD...
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Monday, November 29, 2004
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Columnist Tired of Sucker Treatment
Watch out for coal in your stockings. Chuck Jaffe is holding the fund industry's feet to the fire in a Christmas wish list themed column. Much of the column, though, makes little sense. Jaffe, whose writings on the fund industry are syndicated nationally, says that he wants to be treated ’’like a valued business partner rather than a sucker.’’..
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Monday, November 29, 2004
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Israel Fund Market Offers Opportunities
It looks like Franklin Resources is dipping its toes into the Israeli fund market. Globes, an Israeli online news service, reports that the San Mateo California-based fund firm has partnered with Ilanot Discount to launch a mutual fund in the Middle Eastern nation...
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Monday, November 29, 2004
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DC Assets Up 12 Percent in 2004
P&I is out with its annual rankings. It finds that not much has changed except that assets are up from last year...
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Monday, November 29, 2004
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Reader Rating: 3
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Golden State Issues RFP
California will award mandates to five investment managers in its 457 and 401k plans...
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Monday, November 29, 2004
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Florida Sponsor Settles with DoL
The plan sponsor was accused of siphoning assets from the corporate 401k plan...
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Monday, November 29, 2004
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XO Stock KOs Participants
Yet another 401k plan takes a hit from the collapse of the stock of its sponsor.
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Thursday, November 29, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Will Loads Mean the End for Invesco?
The decision to add loads hints that the brand may be living on borrowed time...
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Thursday, November 29, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Mellon Says Unifi Deal is Official
The bank is sealing its leading position in HR and benefits consulting with a deal worth $275 million...
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Thursday, November 29, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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AERS Wins Merrill Client
American Express has grabbed a national retailer from Merrill...
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Thursday, November 29, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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Personal Ties Seal Deal with Ohio Sponsor
A bank wins a deal through a relationship brought by its brokerage unit...
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Thursday, November 29, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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SEC No-Action Help Lower Meeting Costs
The SEC has provided a no action letter that apparently opens the door to providers to outsource meetings to third-parties...
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Thursday, November 29, 2001
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Reader Rating: 3
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GoldK Inks Distribution Pact
The e401k vendor has a new deal with 1st Global to build its small plan distribution...
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Thursday, November 29, 2001
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T Rowe & Schwab Have Top Statements
MassMutual Axes 112 ... Three-year-old Fund Passes $1 Billion Mark, Will Close ... CSFB Direct Sold to Bank of Montreal ... Dalbar Names Top Retirement Statements ... Social Investments Surpass $2 Trillion ... Pax Celebrates Fund Birthday ... MFS Fixed Income Chief Retires...
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Chase Unit Offers $5 Fund Buys
MassMutual Axes 112 ... Three-year-old Fund Passes $1 Billion Mark, Will Close ... CSFB Direct Sold to Bank of Montreal ... Dalbar Names Top Retirement Statements ... Social Investments Surpass $2 Trillion ... Pax Celebrates Fund Birthday ... MFS Fixed Income Chief Retires...
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Thursday, November 29, 2001
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Web Firm Joins Web Distributor
EmPlanet hopes to build its intermediary distribution through Web-based searches...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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Incumbents Are Out at Merged Plan
Vanguard, MFS and Great Bank are losing an Atlanta client after the merger of three plans...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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Scudder Takes the Zurich Name
In any marriage the decision of whether to join names is sticky. In Scudder's case the answer is Zurich Scudder, but not for all of its businesses...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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WR Expands Lineup
Waddell & Reed may be at the head of the parade with a new value fund...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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Buy Out Leads to Funds
Alliance Capital is providing more details on the much-expected Alliance-Bernstein offerings...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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Scudder Takes the Zurich Name
In any marriage the decision of whether to join names is sticky. In Scudder's case the answer is Zurich Scudder, but not for all of its businesses...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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November 29, 2000
Merrill Lynch and Schwab, So Happy Together? ... American Funds' Slide Continues...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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November 29, 2000
Merrill Lynch and Schwab, So Happy Together? ... American Funds' Slide Continues...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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Internet Eyeballs
No Mary, Grandmother isn't on the Internet ... yet. But American Century's 1999 Internet Adoption Survey shows an ever-growing number of Americans are online and hungry for new services...
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Monday, November 29, 1999
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Hallmark Gives the Gift of Advice
Kansas City, Missouri-based Hallmark Cards, Inc. is ringing in the holiday season by tapping Financial Engines to offer 401(k) investment advice to its participants, a spokesperson with the latter told the 401kWire.com. The plan has over 10,000 participants and, according to The Money Market Directory, 1999, approximately $500 million in assets...
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Monday, November 29, 1999
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UAM President Leaves for Delaware Top Spot
UAM will start to look for a new president and chief operating officer in December when the current COO leaves to become the new head of Delaware Investments and Lincoln National Investment Co...
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Monday, November 29, 1999
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File ... File ... Launch!
How many filings does it take an Internet fund to get SEC approval? In the case of Jacob Asset Management, the third (or is it fourth?) time's a charm...
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Monday, November 29, 1999
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Kaiser Converts to MassMutual with No Blackout
Foster City, CA-headquartered Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics has chosen MassMutual to be the bundled provider for its company's 401(k) plan. Earlier, this year the sponsor had picked the vendor for its defined benefit plan as well. The defined contribution plan has $110 million in assets with 1,350 participants while the DB plan has $120 million in assets with 2,400 participants...
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Monday, November 29, 1999
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Odd Lots, November 29, 1999
Small caps' all or nothing ... The New Millennium funds ... International small caps stay strong ... Y2K, no sweat...
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Monday, November 29, 1999
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Talbot Gets Logical
Chicago, Illinois-based Business Logic, a software development and consulting company, has named Diane Talbot vice president of retirement services. Talbot previously served as senior vice president at KeyBank where she headed up product development for the institutional trust market...
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Monday, November 29, 1999
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