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FundQuest added five new products to their Wealth Architect platform, including investment product ActivePassive Portfolios, the company said.

EBRI research says auto enrollment produces improved retirement savings results.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. has agreed to acquire asset management firm J.&W. Seligman&Co. Incorporated.

Janus Capital Group Inc. has announced plans to pump another $90 million into U.S. value manager Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell and Company, LLC.

There are some changes in store for those who rely on Russell Indexes as a performance benchmark.

Invesco PowerShares and Deutsche Bank renamed 11 recently listed long and short Agriculture, Gold, and Commodity exchange-traded notes (ETNs) linked to variations of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity...

Over the past several years, it has become “fashionable″ in some quarters to bash the workplace retirement savings plan; most frequently, the 401(k).

Russell Investments has added companies in Vietnam to the Russell Global Index for the first time.

In order to encourage Americans to make saving for retirement an everyday event, the government is set to dedicate a whole week to it.

Affluent investor and millionaires showed sagging optimism in the month of June, according to results of Spectrem’s indexes.

The S&P /Citigroup Global Equity Indices will be combined with the S&P /IFCG and Frontier Index Series to form the S&P Global Equity Indices.

A former UBS broker filed a lawsuit against the firm, alleging it forced him to resign for cooperating with regulators, the Boston Globe reported.

When it comes to the best Major League Baseball hotdogs, it’s a tale of two cities.

Bob Lucido joined Fidelity Investments as a senior vice president in charge of a newly created Human Resource Strategy practice for Fidelity’s Consulting Services business, the company said.

A consultant at Russell Investments offers 12 nuggets of advice for selecting target-date funds for DC plans.

The Retirement Plans Group of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., is instituting a number of improvements to its co-fiduciary investment selection and monitoring service.

SEI offers three new funds to defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plans, sub-advised by Independence Investments LLC.

Russell’s Investment Manager Outlook says investment managers are cautious, but not fearful.

FundQuest hired Adam St. Germain to join as a financial analyst on its investment management team, the company said.

Jefferson Pilot Securities Corp., an independent broker/dealer affiliate of Lincoln Financial Group,changed its name to Lincoln Financial Securities Corp, the company said.