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A federal appellate court has sent a 2008 rule governing fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) back to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the court said was...

Testifying before the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, James King, Jr., vice president and head of Prudential Retirement’s Stable Value Markets Group, urged that stable value...

U.S. ETF asset flows were marked by a continued shift away from large cap and developed international equities during the first half of the year and into emerging...

Advisers aren’t generally shy about expressing their feelings – but there are times when discretion can nonetheless be the better part of valor.

Investment adviser Driehaus Capital Management now offers the Driehaus Active Income Fund (Ticker LCMAX), an absolute return mutual fund.

Emerging Global Advisors (EGA) has introduced the Emerging Global Shares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Titans Composite Index Fund (NYSE Arca: EEG).

AUL Retirement Services clients now have more investment options available for retirement accounts through DWS Investments, Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn (CRM), BlackRock, and Pax World Investments.

The financial adviser is the most important aspect of overall investor satisfaction with full service investment firms, comprising 30% in 2009—an increase from 22% in 2008, a new...

WealthEngine has launched Prospect Generator, a searchable database of more than 7 million high net worth individuals.

RolloverSystems, Inc. (RSI) has launched several moves to provide enhanced rollover asset retention solutions and participant retirement readiness tools to plan sponsors, institutional providers, third party administrators (TPAs),...

Cornerstone Group, a West Warwick, Rhode Island, benefits advisory firm, has added Cornerstone Retirement Advisors as a subsidiary.

Mitch Cox has been named Managing Director and Head of the Global Investment & Product Office (I&PO) at Barclays Wealth, a global wealth manager and adviser.

Former Putnam Investment Management Chairman Charles E. Haldeman has been named CEO for housing lender Freddie Mac.

After 25 years with Nationwide Financial, William S. Jackson, senior vice president for Retirement Plans, will retire at year-end.

NAVA, the Association for Insured Retirement Strategies has completed a rebranding and is now known as the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI).

To help plan sponsors address the challenges of missing participants, Keane Retirement Services has entered into a strategic partnership with automatic rollover provider Millennium Trust Company.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has provided transitional relief for administrators of 403(b) plans that make good faith efforts to transition for the 2009 plan year to...

The number of federal securities class action cases filed in the first six months of 2009 dropped by 22.3% over a year earlier, according to the latest data...

UNIFI Companies Retirement Plans announced it will enter the registered investment adviser (RIA) and fee-based marketplace with the acquisition of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based Assurity Advisors, Inc.

While I am sure there was a period in my youth when I wanted to be a fireman, a cowboy, or maybe even a professional athlete, my earliest...