Deals & People

M Financial Group today reintroduced Barry, Evans, Josephs&Snipes as its member firm.

The Principal Financial Group and CIMB Group today launched The CIMB-Principal Islamic Asset Management Sdn Bhd.

DWS Scudder changed its name to DWS Investments, completing a rebranding started two years ago to align with Deutsche Bank Asset Management (DeAM).

Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management announced organizational changes and leadership appointments in its Retirement Group.

Firm veteran Scott Carlson was promoted to lead sales and recruiting for Woodbury Financial Services, a subsidiary of The Hartford Financial Services Group, the company said.

Invesco Aim announced today a new team approach for the AIM Global Value Fund.

John Irvin has been appointed president of PartnersFinancial, one of National Financial Partners Corp.’s (NFP) national membership organizations, the company said.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. has agreed to acquire asset management firm J.&W. Seligman&Co. Incorporated.

Janus Capital Group Inc. has announced plans to pump another $90 million into U.S. value manager Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell and Company, LLC.

Invesco PowerShares and Deutsche Bank renamed 11 recently listed long and short Agriculture, Gold, and Commodity exchange-traded notes (ETNs) linked to variations of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity...

Bob Lucido joined Fidelity Investments as a senior vice president in charge of a newly created Human Resource Strategy practice for Fidelity’s Consulting Services business, the company said.

FundQuest hired Adam St. Germain to join as a financial analyst on its investment management team, the company said.

Jefferson Pilot Securities Corp., an independent broker/dealer affiliate of Lincoln Financial Group,changed its name to Lincoln Financial Securities Corp, the company said.

Rogerscasey acquired a Canadian investment consulting firm, Perimeter Capital Management Inc. (PCMI).

National Investment Managers Inc. closed on the acquisition of Alaska Pension Services, Ltd. (APS).

Expect to see changes in the fund lineup of Fred Alger Management, Inc., including consolidation of all of the open-end mutual funds under the “Alger″ brand.

National Financial Partners Corp. named Elizabeth Weber to head of firm business development, James Poer to president of NFP Securities, Inc., and Stan Barton to General Counsel, the...

Northern Trust Bank, FSB, will acquire Lakepoint Investment Partners LLC of Cleveland, Ohio, an investment management firm.

JPMorgan Funds, the U.S. mutual fund business of JPMorgan Asset Management, announced the appointment of Steve Lundquist as head of the registered investment advisor (RIA) channel.

ING is now making available Morningstar Retirement Manager, including a managed retirement account service, to more than 26,000 retirement plan sponsor clients and 1.8 million plus participants.