Deals & People

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has tapped Alistair "Ali" Lowe as global equities chief investment officer.

Steven Hart has joined the Third Party Administrator (TPA) Sales and Support Strategy team for ING U.S. Retirement Services.

Portland, Oregon-based law firm Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt has added Wally Miller as a shareholder as part of an expansion of its practice in employment law.

HighTower announced that a new adviser team, the Rosenau/Paul Group, has joined the firm’s Manhattan office.

AllianceBernstein has renewed its contract to provide program management and investment management services to CollegeBoundfund, Rhode Island’s adviser-sold 529 college savings plan.

MFC Global Investment Management (MFC GIM), the asset management arm of Manulife Financial Corporation, announced two new hires to its Boston-based teams.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (RPS) announced that two regional vice presidents (RVPs) will take on new territories.

Matthew A. Savage, has been appointed Senior Business Development Manager of Strategic Insight, focused on the qualified plan marketplace.

CNM LLP, an independent accounting and advisory services firm, has announced the expansion of its Employee Benefit Plan Audit practice to include 403(b) plan audit services for nonprofit...

Triad Advisors announced that it is now affiliated with Gitterman & Associates Wealth Management, LLC.

Heidi Walsh has left T. Rowe Price to join J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

New York Life Retirement Plan Services has added Ivette Dominguez to its sales team.

Payden & Rygel, a Los Angeles-based investment manager with $55 billion in assets under management, has opened a Boston office.

Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Gary Plourde, former Great-West sales manager, as regional director of national accounts for its Southeast market.

Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Pat Fields as regional sales director for northern California.