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The MetLife Mature Market Institute is offering free planning tips for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Baby Boomers.

linkedFA, a social networking service for financial professionals, has partnered with LiveOffice to enable preapproval and archiving of social media posts and RSS feeds.

A New York-based third party administrator (TPA) is offering a new level of benchmarking to plan sponsor clients.

The Principal Variable Universal Life Income II aims to help owners address both a desire to growth their business and business stability, the company said.

Invesco PowerShares plans to list the Powershares International Corporate Bond Portfolio on the NYSE on June 3.

The Synergy Companies, Inc., a professional employer and human capital management services organization, has selected Ascensus for its 401(k) retirement plan needs.

Forward Management, LLC, has announced that Accessor Funds are now the Forward Funds.

RidgeWorth Investments has launched a fee benchmarking tool for financial advisers who work with plan sponsors.

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CUNA Mutual Group has teamed up with Madison Asset Management to reengineer its Ultra Series Target Retirement Date Funds to support an outcome-based retirement planning model.

Invesco’s Global Asset Allocation team has now launched, and recently been awarded its first mandate in, its Balanced-Risk Commodity strategy.

Earlier this year, AUL Retirement Services introduced a revised annual plan review for its clients and expanded the customization options for retirement plan advisers.

Navellier & Associates announced it launched Navellier Select, L.P., an alternative investment fund-of-funds, in January 2010.

linkedFA, a social networking site for financial professionals, has partnered with NASDAQ.com to offer resources on its site.

Commonwealth Financial Network has released Commonwealth CRM 4.0, the latest version of the independent broker/dealer and registered investment adviser (RIA)’s proprietary contact management system.

Genworth Financial Wealth Management (GFWM), a division of Genworth Financial, Inc., said advisers on its platform will now have the option to custody with Pershing Advisor Solutions.

As part of its redesigned plan sponsor Web site to be launched next month, Putnam Investments has introduced a real-time fee disclosure tool.

ING’s U.S. Retirement Services business has launched a new tool to help retirement plan advisers unlock business opportunities from the Form 5500.

The Principal has made another liquidation installment on its frozen real estate fund. 

Synapses Inc., a provider of 401(k) education, products, and services, is supplying its Sponsor Profile tool to Madison, Wisconsin-based CUNA Mutual Group for use with CUNA’s 401(k) clients.