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MassMutual’s Retirement Services Division introduced a tool allowing employers and advisers to make plan-specific investment options available to participants based on a target retirement date and/or investment objective.

Standards investors have for their advisers differ greatly from the standards advisers are obligated to deliver, according to Cerulli Associates.

Lincoln Financial Advisors today named Matt Pratzner as managing principal of the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Exton, Pennsylvania, regions.

More bank brokers are selling fee-based products, but those sales are not boosting bank revenues, according to a study.

Think rising health care costs or the potential decreasing of Social Security benefits is the biggest threat to your client’s retirement security? You’re in the minority.

Nationwide Financial Network (NFN) has merged broker/dealers 1717 Capital Management Company and Nationwide Securities, Inc. into Nationwide Securities, LLC (NSLLC).

Dow Jones Indexes is expanding its Dow Jones Global Titans family by adding a blue-chip index for India.

A St. Louis-based firm has unveiled Fiduciary Health Check to help employers meet their legal responsibilities for their retirement plans.

Morningstar has added two categories and one broad asset class to its proprietary classification system for mutual fund portfolios domiciled in the United States.

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and 529 plan administrator Upromise Investments, Inc., introduced a 529 college savings plan designed with portfolios that invest exclusively in BGI's iShares exchange-traded funds...

USAA launched a new family of five Target Retirement funds with costs it says are 47% below the latest comparable Lipper category expense ratio average.

Like most of you, I have found the soaring price of gasoline to be enormously frustrating.

Like most of you, I have found the soaring price of gasoline to be enormously frustrating.

Since 2006, the average number of annual deals among registered investment adviser (RIA) firms rose 37% in the last two years, to 48, and the increase in acquisitions...

The Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth has charged Merrill Lynch&Co. with fraud over charges it marketed auction-rate securities while not accurately disclosing the potential market risks.

MetLife Resources has enhanced its suite of solutions for 403(b) plans not subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) with the launch of ExpertSelect.

A suburban Philadelphia money manager has unveiled a 130/30 mutual fund.

The Online 401(k) expanded its network of financial adviser partners by 16 during the second quarter of 2008.

The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds decreased by $612.42 billion, or 5%, to $11.678 trillion in June, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

A New Hampshire socially responsible investment (SRI) money manager has agreed to a $500,000 settlement with federal regulators in charges it improperly bought securities despite its own SRI...