Deals & People

Sentinel Investments has appointed Charles R. (C.R.) Shaw as senior vice president, national marketing director.

Lawing Financial has named Doug Lode as director of Qualified Plan Design.

Natixis Global Associates (NGA), the distribution arm of Natixis Global Asset Management, has announced an expansion of its initiatives in the retirement marketplace that targets the needs of...

Don Settina, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based retirement consulting firm, is now operating as RetireRight Pittsburgh.

Ascensus is now a retirement plan provider for Commonwealth Financial Network’s new Retirement Plan Consulting program.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) pumped up its recruiting package in order to attract top producers, Dow Jones reported.

Great-West Retirement Services announced two regional sales directors in New Jersey: Joe Carew and Laura Catalano.

Nuveen Investments announced that David Levi has joined the firm as managing director for Global Business Development.

Franklin Templeton Investments recently added Matthew Beaulieu to its team of regional defined contribution investment-only (DCIO) specialists to cover the Western U.S. region.

Old Mutual Asset Management (OMAM) named Brian Carroll, Paul Williams, and Mark Bentley as heads of the Institutional, Non-US, and Retail distribution teams, respectively.

Pen-Cal, a San Francisco-based plan provider, has turned to Stephen C. Nell as its East Coast managing director.

Citigroup is laying off 75 employees in its personal wealth management group, including branch-based financial advisers, according to Dow Jones.

New York Life Insurance Company has turned to Tom Johnson as head of business development for Retirement Income Security.

Memphis-based First Mercantile has named Grant Boucek as regional sales director for its new Mid-South region.

National Investment Managers, a nationally-based and regionally-operated retirement plan administration and investment management company, has agreed to acquire a book of approximately 500 balance-forward (not valued daily) retirement...

ING has reached an agreement to sell three of its U.S. independent retail broker/dealer units—which make up three-quarters of the ING Advisors Network—to Lightyear Capital LLC.

The Keane Organization, a provider of compliance and risk management solutions to Fortune 1000 corporations, has promoted Mark Sweatman to president of Keane’s Retirement Services Division (KRS).

Altegris named Ken McGuire as COO to oversee the growth and development of APM Funds, the company’s flagship line of alternative investment products.

The Phoenix Companies, Inc., has formed a distribution company, Saybrus Partners, Inc., which has agreed to provide life insurance consulting services for financial advisers at Edward Jones.

Great-West Retirement Services announced that the City of Jacksonville, Florida, has hired it as the city’s exclusive provider for its 457 deferred compensation retirement plan and its 401(a)...