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 ICMA-RC has announced a new retirement income solution for state and local government employees.

Charles Schwab has slashed operating expense ratios on six of eight Schwab ETFs.

Ascensus has unveiled a mailer that simplifies the enrollment process.

Putnam Investments will be launching a suite of three U.S. multi-cap equity funds, available by late September 2010.

Joseph B. (Joby) Gruber has been named president of national sales and marketing for American Portfolios Financial Services (APFS).

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” or so goes the old saying.  

Some of the pension changes incorporated in pending legislation in the House may not make it to the Senate version.

Gender, marital status, age, education, and other demographic variables have a significant impact on the likelihood of a worker receiving a retirement annuity and/or employment-based pension income in...

Corporate Compensation Plans, Inc. (CCP) and Harley Gordon, an attorney and authority on long-term care financing, have introduced the CLTC-WealthSecure System, a long-term care insurance marketing systems for...

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. has created a specialized sales team to provide retirement income solutions for fee-based advisers.

SageView Advisory Group has hired Tracy Thomas as a Senior Client Relationship Manager in its Irvine, California office.

A federal court judge has refused to dismiss claims by a 401(k) participant that plan fiduciaries breached their duties when they transferred his accounts into a new default...

The Retirement Advantage, Inc. (TRA) announced the acquisition of Benefits Consulting Group, LLC (BCG) of Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Investors responded to worrisome economic events in May by yanking $13.2 billion from equity funds.

Despite the return of extreme volatility to financial markets, U.S. mutual fund investors withdrew a net of roughly $7 billion from stock and bond mutual funds in...

May might have been a brutal month for markets around the world, but investors continued to funnel assets into U.S.- listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to the...

Investors put a net $3.5 billion into U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in May, according to an estimate from Strategic Insight (SI), an Asset International company.

Fifty percent of those participating in a recent personal finance poll said they have significant regrets about how they’ve handled their financial situation.

Janney Montgomery Scott is further beefing up its fixed income team with the addition of five new hires, the company announced.

A federal judge in Georgia has cleared Home Depot of wrongdoing in a stock drop lawsuit.