Products & Services

AXA Distributors is launching a new advertising campaign in an effort to help advisers who sell annuities spur interest in retirement savings among their clients.

WisdomTree Investments has created a business unit focused on delivering exchange traded funds (ETFs) to the 401(k) marketplace.

Securian Financial Services has unveiled a managed account product that uses exchange-traded fund (ETF) index investments along with strategic and tactical asset allocations.

XShares Advisors LLC announced that two more of its HealthShares ETFs began trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

MassMutual Financial Group is expanding its presence in the retail retirement accumulation and retirement income market with the creation of MassMutual Retirement Income (MMRI), which integrates the firm’s...

The Advisory Group of San Francisco has launched a suite of services to help employers optimize their 401(k) plan and costs to determine whether fiduciaries and their participants...

The firm has introduced a new retirement plan vehicle that gives advisers pricing flexibility.

The investment management arm of State Street Corporation has added six emerging markets exchange-traded funds (ETF) to its SPDRs ETF lineup.

Prudential Retirement now offers an Autopilot Impact Tool, an interactive, PC-based resource, that allows advisers to help their clients model the impact of these two autopilot options.

Morningstar, Inc. introduced Principia Asset Allocation, a new module for the financial planning resource that helps advisers create individualized asset allocation strategies based on a client's personal circumstances,...

Charles Schwab has added a fifth target date fund – the 2050 fund – to its line up of Schwab Managed Retirement Trust Funds.

Fiduciary Risk Assessment LLC (FRA), a Charlotte, North Carolina-based software development company, has unveiled its new 404c Compliance Diagnostic tool.

Barclays Global Investors’ (BGI) iShares Lehman MBS Fixed-Rate Bond Fund, a fixed income exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks a mortgage-backed securities index, has begun trading on the American...

Morgan Stanley’s Consulting Services Group has added to its Custom Portfolio offering to more than 1,400 open-end mutual funds.

MG Advisory Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Matrix Settlement&Clearance Services (Matrix), has announced an alliance with ExpertPlan that will make MG Advisory's Individually Managed Account (IMA) product...

JPMorgan has released its LifeMetrics Index, part of a LifeMetrics platform aimed at measuring and managing both longevity and mortality exposure.

XShares Advisors LLC has added nine HealthShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to its lineup, bringing the number of these publicly traded funds to 14.

A new series of workshops is targeted at helping advisers understand the difference between the investment styles of women and men.

Plan Member Securities has teamed with TRAK (The Retirement Analysis Kit) to create the Personal Retirement Calculator (PRC) - an illustration tool with Plan Member's proprietary investment recommendations...

John Hancock Funds has announced the launch of two new funds available to investors through financial advisers.