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State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has announced five new fixed income SPDRs exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that will begin trading on the American Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

Pershing LLC has launched Managed Account Network, an open architecture platform making available a wide range of managed account solutions for introducing broker-dealer firms to offer their clients.

Investments in the global real estate market are gaining traction as a way for investors to diversify their portfolios, a recent study commissioned by the National Association of...

BenefitStreet Inc. will offer Barclays Global Investors’ iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) via a new 401(k) platform.

ING has announced a change in its Rollover Wizard tool to help employees roll over money from their ING employer-sponsored retirement plan into an ING Express Individual Retirement...

About two-thirds (68%) of small business owners say they are now more concerned about their retirement security than they were last fall.

Individuals in the U.S. today may not be better off in terms of income as their father's generation, a recent study suggests.

Workers are twice as likely to look to personal research or the advice of family and friends as they are to rely on the services of a financial...

MassMutual Retirement Services has two new Managing Directors of Institutional Sales, effective May 1.

Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management Group (GWMG) announced that, this July, Rick Capozzi will join the firm as a Managing Director and National Sales Manager.

Fiserv, Inc. has announced the signing of definitive agreements to sell its Fiserv Investment Support Services (Fiserv ISS) operations in two separate transactions.

RiverSource Investments, LLC, a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, has launched two new single-strategy mutual funds.

RiverSource has launched SecureSource, an optional living benefit rider, which offers guaranteed lifetime income for individuals purchasing a RiverSource annuity.

Prudential Financial has redesigned its Web site for retirement plan participants in an effort to make online retirement planning easier.

JPMorgan Asset Management has tapped John H. Hunt as Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Asset Management’s Institutional business in the Americas.

Toledo, Ohio-based Hylant Financial Services is the latest company to become a member firm of National Retirement Partners (NRP).

The U.S. defined benefit pension market is going to be hit with a massive shakeup that will see three-quarters of private-sector DB assets frozen or terminated in the...

BISYS Group, Inc. has agreed to a $25 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over charges that the financial services provider used improper accounting practices...

Standard&Poor's has launched indexes that include the most liquid stocks in Brazil, Russia, India, and China that comply with Shariah law.

Standard&Poor's has launched fully investable indexes for Muslim investors that include only stocks that comply with Shariah law.