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In the month of July, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan G fund, the most conservative investment offered by the plan, hit a new monthly record: almost $5.6 billion was...

The Institutional Retirement Income Council (IRIC) published an issue brief detailing why plan sponsor concerns about possible adverse reactions from employees to retirement income products appear to be...

Commonwealth Financial Network developed the Commonwealth Model Management platform to help advisers with systematic managing and rebalancing of client portfolios. 

Benefits brokers and consultants appear optimistic about the future of their firms and see a host of opportunities to provide increasing value to their clients, a MetLife survey...

A recent report from Cerulli says that current market volatility is likely to spur more clients to seek additional support, as was the case in 2008.  

An S&P report contends that if the goal of employers is to offer retirement plans that are capable of generating adequate retirement funding for participants, then index funds...

Newkirk is rolling out a single document participant fee disclosure solution for ERISA 403(b) plans. 

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced Jeffrey P. Crandall is joining the firm in New York as a partner in its Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice. 

Bill Simon, Jr. has joined Brinker Capital in the newly created position of Managing Director, Retirement Plan Services.

I have watched with increasing interest the growing furor over the Department of Labor’s proposed new fiduciary definition.   

A federal appellate court has upheld a ruling that the cash balance plan offered by El Paso Corporation does not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...

Natixis announced that William Maier has been appointed Head of Corporate and Sponsor Coverage for North America.

Uncertainty over the economy accelerated in July, causing U.S. mutual fund investors to net redeem an estimated $16 billion in cash out of U.S. stock and bond mutual...

In June, excluding short-term money products, local funds in Asia attracted over $15 billion in net flows, according to Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.

Some workers are making ends meet by foregoing long-term savings, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey.

Stephen Johnson and Eric Mull will join Wilmington Trust as part of the company’s business development initiative.

June saw the U.S. exchange-traded fund industry rebound with net inflows of $9.8 billion, and July saw that trend continue as U.S. ETFs rallied, bringing in $17.2 billion.

June's trends accelerated in July, with estimated long-term fund outflows quadrupling to $17.1 billion, according to data from Morningstar.

A recently released study from Pulse Logic set out to explain why independent registered investment advisers (RIAs) have more assets under management than broker/dealer affiliated advisers.  

Mutual fund asset growth is expected to level out at a 10% rate in 2011, as compared to the 16% increase experienced in 2010, according to Financial Research...