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Great-West Retirement Services said it has hired six more internal wholesalers to boost the support it provides its external sales force and their financial adviser and third-party administrator...

ING Institutional Plan Services Group will be the administrator for Minnesota's 457 deferred compensation plan.

VALIC has hired Robert J. "Bob" Architect, formerly senior tax law specialist and 403(b) guidance author in the Internal Revenue Service's Employee Plans Division, as vice president of...

Last year was kind to the exchange-traded-funds (ETFs) market, with a whopping 45% jump in assets over the year to $775.8 billion as of December 31, according to...

The Guardian Insurance & Annuity Company, Inc. (GIAC), is initiating an enhanced awards program for third-party administrators (TPAs) whose clients utilize The Guardian Choice and The Guardian Advantage...

Asset Dedication, LLC, a provider of asset allocation strategies for independent financial advisers, hired Tony Parkin to focus on developing its business within the adviser marketplace.

A federal judge ruled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cannot add new claims to the current case related to Bank of America Corp.’s takeover of Merrill...

A new report says actual participant behavior is more varied and volatile than most target-date funds assume.

The Winston & Strawn law firm has added James P. Baker, a specialist in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), to its San Francisco office.

A new survey indicates that the economic downturn hasn’t done much to shake up the retirement plans of some women.

The new social networking site linkedFA said it is the “first and only FINRA-compliant social networking site for financial professionals.”

Richard Weylman, Inc., a consultancy that helps financial businesses market to the affluent and wealthy, has launched The Weylman Center for Excellence in Practice Management, an online university...

Natixis Global Associates (NGA) said that Managed Portfolio Advisors (MPA) has been selected by FundQuest to provide overlay management services for its Advisor Directed Unified Managed Account (UMA)...

FINRA, SEC not yet clear about social networking

As the New Year begins, we are often of a mind to think about making a fresh start.

Three firms have combined forces to offer target-date and composite-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) models for qualified plans.

Robert Dolan and Steven Silverman have been tapped as regional directors of The Newport Group, the company announced.

Plan sponsors can now take full advantage of a new federal government system for online filing of the required annual report to the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)...

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company has announced new executive appointments.

iShares announced that a suite of municipal bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with a planned end date began trading on the NYSE Arca.