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Transamerica Retirement Services is releasing results from its national "listening tour" with third party administrators (TPAs), which aimed to identify the top five marketplace issues for TPAs.  

Carol Geremia and James Jessee have been named as Co-Heads of Global Distribution at MFS.

MSCI’s 2011 Global Asset Owners Survey, “Back to the Future of Risk Management,” found 80% of institutional investors are currently using stress tests. 

Retirement Solution Group (RSG) announced that the firm will be merging with RWC Pensions. 

The TCW Group has launched the MetWest Unconstrained Bond Fund, the first fund from Metropolitan West Asset Management since its acquisition by TCW in December 2009.

Sue Crosby has joined Mercer as a Partner in the firm’s Investment Consulting business, based in New York.

The Aon Risk Maturity Index found a positive relationship between the maturity of an organization's risk management framework and its financial performance.

Research from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found both low- and high-income workers benefit from employer-sponsored defined contribution plans. 

A few weeks back, I offered some notions about what the next five years will bring in terms of industry trends.

ASPPA is urging the Department of Labor to modify its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program, as it applies to late deposits of elective deferrals under ERISA.

Stock and bond funds experienced net outflows of $32.8 billion from long term funds last month, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

The site will help individuals and small businesses manage their of 401(k) retirement investment decisions.

The four funds in the Vanguard LifeStrategy series, which currently feature a mix of passively and actively managed funds, will adopt an all-index approach.

Burns Advisory Group, an Oklahoma City-based wealth management firm, and Dallas-based Executive Financial Group are merging with a combined $600 million in client assets.

New legislation is shifting the 403(b) market from highly individualized and retail-focused, to one that is more efficient and institutionalized, according to Cerulli Associates.

Orion Advisor Services is releasing an updated version of its portfolio management platform, Advisor Desktop.   

Results from the Mercer Workplace Survey show U.S. retirement benefit plan participants are dramatically more pessimistic about their economic expectations than just one year ago.

More than three quarters (79%) of investment managers surveyed in the latest Russell Investments Investment Manager Outlook (IMO) survey say they do not believe the U.S. economy is...

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) announced that the SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF, SPDR S&P Health Care Services ETF, and SPDR S&P Software & Services ETF have...

The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) announced the launch of The National Association of Plan Advisors (NAPA).