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Natixis Global Associates (NGA) announced the addition of the Vaughan Nelson Value Opportunity Fund (VNVAX) to the Natixis Funds lineup.

MassMutual’s Retirement Services Division announced plans to expand its participant communication and education beyond retirement-related topics.

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America adding more features to serve the Spanish-speaking workforce to its employee benefit enrollment services.

World equity markets registered their worst month in history as investors lost an estimated $5.79 trillion during October, Standard&Poor’s Index Services announced Monday.

Standard&Poor’s has launched the S&P /Citigroup International Treasury Bond Index Series.

CDM Retirement Consultants., a Towson, Maryland-based open architecture plan provider, is giving sponsors a break on fees.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has moved forward several fiduciary breach claims against Comcast Corporation for its handling of company stock retirement plan...

For all the talk of “hope″ and “change,″ this extended election cycle has offered little of either, IMHO.

Mutual fund assets worldwide decreased 0.7% to $24.64 trillion at the end of the second quarter of 2008, according to Investment Company Institute (ICI) data.

Stock and bond funds experienced net outflows of $21.9 billion in September, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds fell 8.3% or $959 billion to $10.6 trillion in September, according to Investment Company Institute (ICI) data.

Total managed accounts assets reached $1.85 trillion through the first half of 2008, according to the annual report “Cerulli Quantitative Update: Managed Accounts 2008.″

Research by the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) suggests freezing a defined benefit pension plan might not reduce costs.

TD AMERITRADE now offers mobile trading applications for iPhone and iPod touch, now available on the Apple App Store.

Many advisers have been the champions of phrases such as “stay the course″ and “weather the storm,″ but even advisers have a sinking confidence in the market, according...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged privately held, registered broker/dealer Lazard Capital Markets LLC with failing to supervise three employees who spent more than $600,000 while 'improperly...

A Texas management consultant, whose lawsuit over 401(k) fiduciary breach allegations became the subject of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on participants’ legal rights, has apparently run...

Just telling participants to “stay the course″ might not be enough.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (RPS) has increased the number of advisers able to offer services to 401(k) plans through a new distribution agreement reached with Morgan Stanley.

Automatic enrollment of employees into defined contribution retirement plans has been adopted by a majority of surveyed plan sponsors, according to Mercer.