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Advisers covered by wholesalers and who use the Web as an effective sales tool averaged 25% more sales than those who do not use the Web, according to...

Thrivent Financial plans to hire more than 800 financial representatives by the end of 2008 to meet the increasing demand by Americans for a financial road map for...

Ours is an industry of fairly recent invention–one that is, in many respects, only just beginning to emerge from the growth pangs of adolescence.

Ours is an industry of fairly recent invention–one that is, in many respects, only just beginning to emerge from the growth pangs of adolescence.

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC has announced the listing of two new exchange-traded funds.

Eight UBS E-TRACS Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) have begun trading on NYSE Arca.

The SPARK Institute has released for public review and comment the first of two proposals for best practices in information sharing among 403(b) plan providers and sponsors.

Nearly half (46%) of the advisers in a recent poll said their clients are still tracking their expectations of a decade ago for a timely retirement.

Citing months of poor performance, Goldman Sachs announced it has stopped offering an investment account that AQR Capital Management created for the bank's 401(k) lineup.

State Street Corporation has named Scott Powers president and chief executive officer of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the company’s investment management arm.

Citigroup Inc. has agreed to pay $33 million to about 2,500 current and former female brokers for its Smith Barney unit to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit.

The Newport Group has tapped Donna Haggin as Regional Director, reporting to Newport’s Chief Marketing Officer Tom Pittman.

Although retirement plan providers supply investment education materials to 56% of participants surveyed by Spectrem Group, only 12% said they refer to these materials on a regular basis...

John Barry of Torrance, California has been named the 2008 PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year and FFoA in Pearl River, New York has been named the...

Renowned bond manager PIMCO has launched a target-date solution that the firm says “…differ from many older and less diversified types of target date funds.”