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Over the past several weeks, I’ve received a dozen different inquiries from providers and advisers, all wanting to know if we’re seeing any pickup in provider changes.

Many sales assistants offer their advisers a versatile and valuable business partner, and research shows assistants are interested in expanding beyond their traditional administrative role.

PIMCO Co-Chief Executive Bill Thompson will retire at year-end 2008, the company announced.

The world’s developed and emerging equity markets both lost ground in August, and have produced double-digit, negative returns over the past three-months, according to Standard&Poor’s.

Faced with overseeing a class action lawsuit that could have represented as many as 57,000 401(k) plans at the Principal Financial Group, a federal judge in Iowa has...

Millikin Mandt Associates, Inc. is offering what it calls “a very competitive” 403(b) plan solution focusing on the small plan (fewer than 200 employee) marketplace.

Standard&Poor's has licensed MacroMarkets LLC to launch exchange-listed products based on the S&P /Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.

A third of workers are not participating in a retirement plan.

Younger workers are aware of the importance of saving for retirement, but it just seems so far away, they say as they cash out their 401(k)s.

The SPARK Institute released a question and answer Web page to address questions it received following the release of its “Best Practices for 403(b) Plans Information Sharingâ€″ Minimum...

New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global has launched the Market Vectors-RVE Hard Assets Producers exchange-traded fund (HAP).

Genworth Financial, Inc., expanded its service offerings in its wealth management business through Quantuvis Consulting, a practice management provider.

Millionaires in Generation X seem more philanthropic than their parents.

New research says rapid growth in unified managed accounts (UMAs) will be stinted if the need for industry standardization and automation isn’t addressed.

R Factor, announced today by Robinson&Associates, Inc., uses a methodology to predict and capture future revenue.

Janus Capital Group Inc. introduced a new fund of funds product, the Janus Adviser Modular Portfolio Construction Fund.

Financial intermediaries are continuing to adapt their business to meet the evolving needs of sponsors when it comes to qualified default investment alternatives (QDIAs).

You may still be trying to figure out where Senator Barack Obama stands on the Russian invasion of Georgia.

Henderson Global Investors launched the Henderson Industries of the Future Fund last week.

Annuities can help women generate enough income for their extended life expectancy, according to a study sponsored by an annuity provider.