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Financial-services market research firm Dalbar Inc. is launching Compliance Support Services’ (CSS), a new division dedicated to addressing the increasing risk and complexity faced by compliance departments.

Fidelity Investments will reopen its widely known Magellan Fund to new investors as of Tuesday for the first time in a decade, the Boston financial services firm announced.

A former AXA Equitable Life Insurance investment adviser has pled guilty to stealing $1.7 million from Colorado public school teachers.

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. has launched a new distribution channel focused on providing retirement plan strategies and solutions for Fortune 1000 corporations and their employees.

Back in 2003, when then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer launched his investigation into mutual fund trading practices, two distinct areas were highlighted.

Internal Revenue Bulletin 2008-1 provides updates and restatements of eight IRS revenue procedures that govern letter rulings, information letters, determination letters, and other guidance regarding employee plans.

An analysis of about 50 plans in Vanguard’s recordkeeping system that have adopted automatic enrollment suggests it does improve participation rates, but deferral rates for those using automatic...

Recordkeeper Ascensus (formerly BISYS Retirement Services) has been selected to provide recordkeeping and administrative services for SEI’s retirement plan offerings.

New research from Fidelity Investments suggests employees of non-profit organizations are not taking full advantage of their workplace retirement plan resources.

Fidelity has made significant changes to its Adviser 401(k) platform, including introducing a new custom pricing schedule.

Diamond Portfolio Advisors, LLC, an institutional money manager, has launched a mutual fund based on its track record in managing high quality growth stocks.

Democrats are frequently characterized as “tax and spend″ by those on the other side of the political spectrum.

New research from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) suggests the change in the retirement landscape from predominately defined benefit plans to mostly defined contribution...

Mutual fund net sales will trend up by 2% annually, but investors will have to look elsewhere for the real significant growth, according to a new study.

Taking what he calls a “cautiously optimistic view for 2008,″ Bob Doll, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Global Equities at BlackRock, Inc., predicts that the U.S....

The board of directors of PMFM, Inc., an Athens, Georgia-based registered investment adviser, has tapped Judson P. Doherty as president, effective immediately.

CAPTRUST Financial Advisors has announced that Beryl Ball has joined the advisory and research firm.

Pershing LLC, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, has launched the Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) Center to provide its introducing broker/dealer and independent registered investment...

Standard&Poor’s has launched the S&P 500 Inverse Index, designed to provide investors with the inverse performance of the S&P 500.

Executive Vice President Elaine Sarsynski, currently Chairman, President and CEO of MassMutual International LLC, will assume additional responsibilities as head of the Retirement Services Division.