Products & Services

Prudential Fixed Income Management has made its nine fixed income collective trust funds available to defined contribution plans.

Transamerica Retirement Services announced a series of enhancements to Transamerica Partner iSeries, a Web-based, virtually paperless plan administration tool for third-party administrators (TPAs).

Focus Financial Partners LLP formed a consulting service for “elite broker teams” establishing fee-based registered investment advisory (RIA) firms, the company said.

ProFunds Group announced the launch of a dozen new exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

MSCI Barra is expanding the MSCI Global Islamic Indexes family by extending the Emerging Markets coverage to include the Small Cap segment, and by adding coverage of 16...

Northern Trust has launched a customized reporting solution exclusively for investment consultants.

The employees of the Retirement Services division at American United Life Insurance Company (AUL), a OneAmerica company, have teamed up with Goldleaf Partners to launch an exclusive program...

MetLife announced that State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) will subadvise two tactical asset allocation portfolios investing primarily in exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Impact Technologies Group, Inc. (Impact), a provider of financial software and services, launched PlanLab News, an online news site.

Morningstar has introduced several enhancements to its investment Web site, including expanded benchmarks, customization capabilities, and new data.

CPI Common Remitter Services, a division of CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc., released CRS PDQ, a 403(b) common remitter and compliance oversight program.

T. Rowe Price launched the Global Large-Cap and Global Real Estate strategies with offerings tailored for institutional and retail investors as well as shares available through advisers.

MetLife announced the national expansion of its retirewise program.

As market turbulence takes its toll on everything from 401(k) account balances to pension plan funding, employers are scrambling to assess the full impact on their retirement programs.

Charles Schwab is now making available industry insights and benchmarking data compiled from retirement plan clients to third-party administrator (TPA) clients.

Morningstar Investment Services has introduced three new managed portfoliosâ€″the Tortoise, the Hare, and Dividend Stock Baskets.

Putnam Investments announced Monday the merge of half a dozen equity funds to remove product redundancies.

Charles Schwab established a new business unit, Institutional Services, to serve the needs of independent investment advisers, corporate benefit plan sponsors, and third-party retirement plan recordkeepers.

FTSE Group has expanded the FTSE Environmental Opportunities Index Series with the addition of nine new indexes, according to an FTSE news release.

John Hancock Financial Network (JHFN) is implementing a business model offering financial professionals a choice of three types of affiliation, based on the level of independence and support...