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Pete Margiotta has been named executive director and client adviser for the national accounts team at J.P. Morgan Defined Contribution Investment Solutions. 

Advisers may think they are recommending the best products, but what do their clients think of the advice?

Another lawsuit has been filed against Fidelity Investments regarding its use of float income.

Eric Dyson has joined USI Consulting Group as vice president of retirement services.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) requires that swap transactions go through a clearing process.

Mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) assets through broker/dealers and registered investment advisers (RIAs) had more than 30% growth in 2012 than wirehouses.

Paul Myers has joined Mercer as principal in the communications practice of the firm’s talent business.

Robert Black, Glen Cohen, Chris Finch, Kumar Jagdeo II and Court West have been hired as wholesalers by Nationwide Funds Group to drive mutual fund growth.

Nearly a third of employees watch March Madness hoops during the workday.

Mortgage payments, credit card debt, college tuition—they can all get in the way of retirement savings, despite employees’ best intentions.

Mirae Asset USA has named Peter P. Graham chief executive officer; Robert P. Mulligan, president; and Robert E. Shea, chief operating officer.

Anne Lundberg has been named U.S. consultant relations head of Man Group, an alternative investment manager.

Stock and bond mutual funds are on track to set an all-time quarterly flows record, nearing $200 billion, in the first quarter of 2013.

Fidelity Investments and BlackRock Inc. announced a strategic alliance to increase access to a broad selection of passive exchange-traded fund (ETF) solutions.

Many Americans misunderstand how Social Security works, a survey found.

E. Thomas Johnson Jr. has been appointed senior adviser at Retirement Clearinghouse LLC (RCH) in Charlotte, North Carolina.   

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, otherwise known as the “fiscal cliff” tax legislation, had no direct impact on the tax treatment of nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC)...

Address market challenges, embrace innovation and take the lead in improving retirement policy, said Robert L. Reynolds, president and chief executive of Putnam Investments.

Institutional market influence was most prominent within the equity exchange-traded fund (ETF) space in 2012, according to Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.

Kristin Pelling has been named director of defined contribution (DC) consultant relations at Putnam Investments.