Products & Services

The Principal Financial Group has introduced a new registered Individual 401(k) plan, offered through independent financial professionals, that it says combines the benefits of investment options from Principal...

Transamerica Life Insurance Company has unveiled a new business, Transamerica Retirement Management, Inc., to address workers’ needs to have money during retirement and related financial planning issues.

Blue Ocean Portfolios is launching a full service 401(k) plan that has an average annual total participant cost of 0.79% of assets, including the expense ratios of the...

Kravitz has launched a Web site focused on cash balance plans to help retirement plan advisers, providers, and third party administrators grow their retirement plan business.

Standard&Poor's Equity Research Services has introduced a new market intelligence tool that provides the financial advisory market with a central source of real-time qualitative stock analysis, thematic research,...

WisdomTree Investments, Inc. has announced that the WisdomTree Trust will launch a new small-cap dividend-weighted exchange-traded fund (ETF) on October 30 under the ticker symbol DGS.

Schwab Institutional has introduced a new offering to help advisers manage their human capital needs, including finding new talent, retaining and rewarding existing employees, structuring their organizations more...

Schwab Institutional, a provider of custodial, operational, and trading support for independent investment advisors, has announced new services designed to help advisers retain the management of trust assets.

Beneficial Investment Services, Inc. will now be able to offer six new managed account programs with the addition of FundQuest to its investment platform.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (JHRPS) has launched a defined benefit program.

Dreyfus Investments has joined DTCC's Managed Accounts Service (MAS), a centralized platform for the industry, designed to streamline communications associated with opening and maintaining managed accounts.

Still River has updated its 403(b) Contribution Planner software, which it says is the first software that complies with the latest IRS regulations, including 2008 calculation factors.

Fidelity Investments is developing a Web-based wealth management platform that integrates Registered Investment Advisers’ (RIAs) most critical operational systems into one unified workstation.

The financial planning Web site focused on stock compensation, myStockOptions.com, has now added a college funding section.

The American Society of Pension Professionals&Actuaries (ASPPA) has issued standards of practice for recordkeepers so that plan sponsors, investment advisers, and investment managers will have criteria by which...

Software provider DATAIR Employee Benefit Systems, Inc. has released its Pension Reporter software package containing 2007 plan year EFAST-approved paper and electronic 5500 series forms and schedules, as...

TRI-AD has introduced a written Full Fee Disclosure Guarantee as an integral part of its defined contribution plan daily valuation recordkeeping service.

RiverSource Investments, LLC, a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc., has introduced RiverSource Advanced Alpha Strategies, a series of three mutual funds designed for more affluent investors.

Nuveen Investments, a provider of investment services to institutional and high net worth investors, will now offer target-date funds in a collective trust structure.

SPA ETFs Inc., an investment adviser and affiliate of investment product provider London&Capital, has listed its initial U.S. equities-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the American Stock Exchange.