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It is not easy to be in compliance with the new investment advice exemptions under the Pension Protection Act (PPA).

The future of retirement plans may lie in automated savings arrangements, but that can’t be the only means of improving participation and employee engagement.

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) grew by about 2.1% in February to $431 billion, according to a new report from State Street Global Advisors (SSgA).

In response to the rapid growth of investor interest in emerging markets and foreign exchange as asset classes in recent years, AIG Financial Products Corp (AIG-FP) has launched...

GAIN Capital Group, LLC, which provides Foreign Exchange (Forex) trading and services, has come out with a trading platform compatible with Mircrosoft Windows, bringing the number of platforms...

MG Advisory Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Matrix Settlement&Clearance Services (Matrix), will provide retirement account services to third party administrator Sunwest Pensions’s retirement plan participants.

Financial advisers looking to offer small business owners a defined benefit plan have a new resource.

Pershing , a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Company, has revamped its securities-based consumer lending to give clients the ability to increase their current borrowing power...

James McCarthy, Managing Director, Retirement Solutions at Morgan Stanley said there are two approaches to retirement product development.

There are six unstoppable trends that are driving the economy today and that will shape business tomorrow, according to one academic.

“We’d like to pat ourselves on the back saying we’ve helped people but the evidence is not in our favor,″ said Steve Ulian, Senior Vice President with Fidelity...

The U.S. offers many tax preferences to encourage savings, but by and large they’ve failed.

Nearly half (44%) of affluent Americans, and 53% of those with more than $5 million in investable assets, have assets remaining in a former employer's retirement plan.

Janus Capital Group Inc. subsidiary Enhanced Investment Technologies LLC (INTECH) has announced the launch of its Collared Long/Short (120/20) strategy, which will be available to both U.S. and...

Combined assets of the nation's mutual funds increased by $152.8 billion, or 1.5%, to $10.56 trillion in January, according to the Investment Company Institute's (ICI) survey of the...

Not too long after my first daughter was born, my wife decided that we needed to have a vehicle with four doors.

Not too long after my first daughter was born, my wife decided that we needed to have a vehicle with four doors.

The American Stock Exchange has started trading two exchange-traded funds exchange traded funds (ETFs) that track the Robeco Developed International Equity Index and the Robeco Developed World Equity...

Advisers have many criteria to examine when helping clients select the right asset allocation fund.

The three stages of selling a retirement plan into a company, prospecting, proposing and closing all require preparation and creativity, according to Marilyn Pearson, Vice President at Merrill...