Deals & People

Conor Weir and Sophois Sokhom have joined Retirement Benefits Group to provide retirement consulting services to clients in Long Beach, California.

Standish Mellon Asset Management Company, a BNY Mellon investment boutique focused on fixed income, hired Max Guimond as solutions strategist for its liability-driven investing group.

Emily Hooyman will oversee the process of onboarding new clients of The Retirement Advantage.

Erin M. Sweeney is joining the ERISA & Fiduciary Litigation Practice at Washington, D.C., law firm, Miller & Chevalier.

R. Evan Inglis has joined Nuveen Asset Management as senior actuary in institutional solutions.

Kelly Bush, Pete Ganey and Richard Snyder have joined MassMutual’s retirement services as managing directors who support sales of defined contribution retirement plans in the government market.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services hired Steve Davis as divisional vice president, responsible for sales management in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The move by Alliant Insurance Services to acquire American Benefits Consulting marks the specialty insurance firm’s third employee benefits purchase in the last 12 months.

Charlie Pritzl has joined The Retirement Advantage Inc. (TRA) as quality control and training manager.

DST Systems, a provider of strategically unified data management, business processing, and customer communication tools, says it has acquired Kasina LLC, a strategic advisory firm to the asset...

Global asset manager Pioneer Investments has added two senior members to its U.S. intermediary distribution and U.S. marketing and product development organizations.

The Pension Resource Institute announced plans to collaborate with and support retirement plan-focused advisers within its newest member organization, Snowden Lane Partners.

Nonprofit trade association PSCA has named Tony Verheyen as executive director, following the resignation of Bob Benish.

ABD Insurance and Financial Services hired Brian Ashworth as vice president of its retirement services group.

Nasdaq announced that it will acquire smart beta and passive investing specialist Dorsey, Wright & Associates LLC.

U.S. Retirement Partners (USRP) reported that it has acquired Kades-Margolis Corporation (KMC), which will join USRP’s national network of 403(b) providers.

Acquisition of New York Life’s RPS business accelerates John Hancock’s expansion into the mid-case and large-case retirement plan markets.

Brendan Gundersen has joined Mainstay Investments as a managing director to head the firm’s institutional intermediary channel.

An agreement signed with Pensionmark seals a partnership between the national firm and a St. Paul, Minnesota-based independent advisory practice, SevenHills Benefit Partners.

Transamerica Retirement Solutions hired Mark Valentine as vice president of defined benefit sales and business development for the East Coast.