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While it’s been a relatively mild winter here (and it’s not over yet), it’s been cold enough—and our house old enough—that opening the various utility bills has been...

While it’s been a relatively mild winter here (and it’s not over yet), it’s been cold enough—and our house old enough—that opening the various utility bills has been...

Independent registered investment advisers (RIAs) are much less optimistic about the economy than they were previously, says the latest Schwab Institutional survey.

Although the average U.S. household invests about 55% of its 401(k) or other defined contribution plan assets in stocks, many Americans are going to extremes when it comes...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued new guidance regarding three areas of plan administration changed by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA).

Plan document provider ftwilliam.com has released two new 403(b) plan documents, updated with the 2007 final regulations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Fidelity Investments agreed to pay an $8 million penalty in connection with charges 13 current or former employees improperly took...

Everett most recently served as senior vice president and deputy general counsel at the Principal Financial Group, the company said in an announcement. Ralph Eucher, former president of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed two new rules under the Investment Company Act to allow exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to operate without first getting SEC exemptive...

A 65-year-old couple retiring in 2008 will need approximately $225,000 to cover medical costs in retirement, according to new Fidelity Investments data.

Chicago-based Envestnet has unveiled the Envestnet Sustainability Platform that integrates three major components to incorporate the tenets of sustainability into the process of constructing client portfolios.

Transamerica IDEX Mutual Funds has a new name: Transamerica Funds.

Van Kampen Retirement Strategy Trust today filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for 10 new lifecycle funds.

Morningstar has unveiled Morningstar Site Builder, a Web-based platform consisting of Morningstar’s financial adviser tools, content, and reports that investment firms can add to their existing adviser Web...

Claymore Securities, Inc. has announced that eight of its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are included as underlying investments in the Fiserv Trust Target Date Blueprint Funds.

Parametric Portfolio Associates and IW Financial have teamed up to design customized tax-managed separate accounts strategies for advisers and institutions seeking to incorporate socially responsible, faith-based, terror-free, and...

A suburban Philadelphia company has launched three exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the New York Stock Exchange.

RBC Dain Rauscher has changed its brand name to RBC Wealth Management.

If you watch commercial TV (that is to say, TV with commercials), you’ve no doubt been struck by the proliferation of ads for various prescription medicines.

If you watch commercial TV (that is to say, TV with commercials), you’ve no doubt been struck by the proliferation of ads for various prescription medicines.