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With an extended time to prepare, the final kick-in date for the anti-market timing rule 22c-2 came and went earlier this month with little industry fanfare.

The Online 401(k), a provider of full-service Web-based 401(k) plans for small and single-person businesses, has announced its partnership with KG Advisors.

Merrill Lynch&Co Inc. has sued an unnamed defendant it alleges impersonated a bank manager and then sent racially denigrating e-mails to civil rights leader Al Sharpton and several...

If that Daylight Savings Time switch leaves you feeling a big “ragged″, there may be a reason.

FundQuest’s managed account platform now includes two of Russell’s managed account programs to independent registered investment advisers (RIAs).

Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, announced the launch of a family of local currency Emerging Market Government Inflation-Linked Bond (EMGILB) benchmark indexes.

MBIA Asset Management plans to launch two new inflation protected, open-ended funds designed for institutional investors, pension funds, and high-net-worth individuals.

The Principal Financial Group has introduced a new registered Individual 401(k) plan, offered through independent financial professionals, that it says combines the benefits of investment options from Principal...

The registered investment adviser (RIA) industry has grown significantly in two years, driven by growth of existing firms, new entrants to the market, and the growth of the...

A new survey has found many plan sponsors concentrating not just on snagging 401(k) participants, but helping them to save enough for retirement.

Dietz&Lynch Financial Group has unveiled an enhanced suite of retirement plan consulting services.

Transamerica Life Insurance Company has unveiled a new business, Transamerica Retirement Management, Inc., to address workers’ needs to have money during retirement and related financial planning issues.

Blue Ocean Portfolios is launching a full service 401(k) plan that has an average annual total participant cost of 0.79% of assets, including the expense ratios of the...

Kravitz has launched a Web site focused on cash balance plans to help retirement plan advisers, providers, and third party administrators grow their retirement plan business.

Citigroup has been hit with a lawsuit alleging the financial services giant committed a variety of fiduciary breaches in improperly having its 401(k) plan do business with its...

BISYS Retirement Services, on Monday unveiled its new name: Ascensus.

Standard&Poor's Equity Research Services has introduced a new market intelligence tool that provides the financial advisory market with a central source of real-time qualitative stock analysis, thematic research,...

According to a new report published by Schwab Institutional, the best-managed advisory firms have clear and long-term strategies for their technology investments, but many advisers are under-utilizing existing...

WisdomTree Investments, Inc. has announced that the WisdomTree Trust will launch a new small-cap dividend-weighted exchange-traded fund (ETF) on October 30 under the ticker symbol DGS.