Deals & People

Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company announced that Joe Greene is joining the firm as senior vice president and chief marketing officer.

SageView Advisory Group has hired Bob Noll as a senior investment adviser.

Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust announced that Steve Nolan has joined the firm as manager of transition services, effective July 1, 2011.

The Newport Group announced that Jeff Wirth is the new Senior Vice President, Non-Qualified Plans, and George White has joined the firm as Vice President, Non-Qualified Client Services.

Edward Ramos joined the company as a senior managing director and lead portfolio manager for the International Equity strategy at MacKay Shields LLC. 

StanCorp Equities has chosen Chris Weekley to be a pension consultant, responsible for retirement plan sales in Georgia and Tennessee.

The Multnomah Group announced the addition of John Chavez as Regional Director for Southern California.

Brandes Investment Partners & Co. (BIPCo) has expanded its investment servicing relationship with State Street to include its Canadian pooled funds totaling $1 billion Canadian dollars in assets.

Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company is launching a retirement planning and education program to assist workers when they are eligible to take distributions from their plans at...

UBS announced the appointment of John Dyment as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution, based in New York.

Rob Ferguson has been named head of global securities lending at CIBC Mellon, Robert Chiuch has been named managing director, and Phil Zywot had been named head of...

RidgeWorth Investments announced that it has added two sales professionals to its recently-created Retail Channel sales team. 

RREEF, the real estate investment business of Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management division, announced that Mark Roberts has joined the firm.

Neuberger Berman hired three wholesalers to its team of twelve internal and external salespeople. 

John Hancock Financial Network (JHFN) will begin offering its advisers practice management tools from the Retirement Plan Advisory Group (RPAG).

Pension Specialists, Inc. (PSI) has acquired Human Capital Services, a division of RSM McGladrey, Inc., and the new entity will be rebranded as Verisight, Inc.

Sentinel Investments announced that Crow Point Partners, LLC, will subadvise the firm’s Sentinel Mid Cap Value Fund (SYVAX, SYCVX, and SYVIX).

Lincoln Financial Distributors (LFD) announced that Kelly Bush has joined the firm as regional sales director with the Institutional Retirement Solutions Distribution (IRSD) team.

Kevin O’Brien and Tyler Polk are the newest investment consultants at Fiduciary Investment Advisors (FIA), based in Windsor, Connecticut.

Global index provider Dow Jones Indexes announced that it has sold its 50% interest in Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB).