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JPMorgan Chase & Co. has successfully convinced a federal judge that a former employee should be barred from moving forward with allegations about the company’s cash balance conversion.

New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global has launched Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (NYSE: VNM) on NYSE Arca.

DailyAccess Corporation, a Mobile, Alabama-based plan service provider, has acquired Leggette Actuaries, Inc.

The U.S. Department of Labor has sued defunct Vinyl-Mark Products Inc. of Hueytown, Alabama, and the company's pension and profit-sharing plan trustees for allegedly misusing plan assets to...

The Vanguard Group has shuttered its PRIMECAP Core Fund to advisers and institutional clients such as defined benefit plans, endowments, and foundations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined AXA Advisors $50,000 related to retirement-fund fraud by a registered representative.

Add this to the list of studies about how to improve job performance: Increased sexual activity might lead to an improvement in problem-solving, confidence, and teamwork.

The number of employers planning to reinstate a matching contribution to 401(k) plans has increased in the past two months, according to the latest research from Watson Wyatt.

Affluent investors are dismal about their short-term financial situation, but many are turning to advisers for help.

Leveraged exchange-traded-funds (ETFs) have caught the attention of regulators, and now law firms have noticed the products as well.

Where is it trendy to retire these days? The places might be different than you think.

Great-West Retirement Services has hired eight additional internal wholesalers to further enhance the support it provides its external sales force and their financial adviser and third-party...

Participants with retirement accounts through the Principal Financial Group can receive certain account information via text messages and their personal iGoogle homepages.

The recent market uptick continued to benefit U.S. mutual fund flows in July as investors poured almost $44 billion ($171 billion year to date) into fund offerings, Morningstar...

Westrock Group, Inc., a financial services holding company, named Donald H. Hunter, Jr., as CEO and president of the firm and its wealth management subsidiary, Westrock Advisors, Inc.

WealthBook, provider of practice management software solutions for advisers, announced the availability of WealthBook release 2.0.

An analysis of 401(k) data by Fidelity Investments has identified behaviors hindering savings for workers at different life stages.

American Reliance Group, Inc., (ARG), a financial advisory firm headquartered in Spokane, Washington, has selected FundQuest to provide outsourced technology, back-office, and investment research services.  

Americans held $13.4 trillion in retirement assets at the end of the first quarter of 2009, accounting for 33% of all household financial assets in the United States,...