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Index Series Tracks Performance of Commodity Producers
S&P Indices has introduced the S&P Commodity Producers Index Series.
AXA Equitable Introduces Structured Investment Option
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company has introduced the Structured Investment Option (SIO) for its EQUI-VEST series of variable deferred annuities available to employer-sponsored retirement savings plans.
Online Retirement Education Guide Launched
Rest-of-Life Communications, a provider of workplace retirement education programs, has launched a free, Web-based guide designed to help workers address the daunting challenges of planning for a long...
Web Site Locates Employee Benefits Law Experts
The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (the College) has launched a new Web site feature to help locate leading employee benefits practitioners, including those available to act...
What the Biggest Time Waster in Your Inbox?
Xerox has released a free Microsoft Windows desktop app that sorts through mounting e-mails to identify what’s distracting you from “real business.”
Fidelity Shows Positive Changes Made After Education
Fidelity Investments announced two records set among Fidelity-administered 401(k) plans.
More Participants Staying Put in Retirement Plans
The share of defined contribution plan participants that stopped making contributions in 2010 was significantly lower than the share that stopped contributing in 2009.
Nationwide Offers Retirement Plans FDIC-Insured Product
Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. has added the Nationwide Bank FDIC Insured Deposit Account option to its menu of retirement plan offerings.
Mutual of Omaha Adds 401(k) Wholesalers in the Southeast
Mutual of Omaha has announced the appointment of two new retirement plan wholesalers, Joe Gibson and Daniel Roebuck, and the promotion of Joe Reese and Paul Tavella to...
Great-West Enhances Participant Web Site
Great-West Retirement Services has launched an enhanced Web site for participants in retirement plans it administers.
Vanguard Reduces Investment Minimums on Retirement Funds
Vanguard is reducing the minimum investment requirement from $3,000 to $1,000 for the 12 funds in its index-based Target Retirement Fund series.
Mutual Fund Flows Show Investor Confidence
U.S. mutual fund investors demonstrated confidence in a gradual economic recovery, adding about $27 billion in net new cash to U.S. stock and bond mutual funds in April...
ETF Flows Surge in April
Investors poured an additional $23 billion into U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in April 2011, up from $9 billion of inflows in March.
SunTrust Buys CSI Capital Management
SunTrust Banks, Inc. has acquired the assets of CSI Capital Management, a San Francisco based wealth-management firm.
Orinda Introduces Multi-Manager Hedged Equity Mutual Fund
Orinda Asset Management LLC, an independent, privately-held asset management firm, has launched the Orinda Multi-Manager Hedged Equity Fund.
First Trust Launches Automobile Manufacturing ETF
First Trust Advisors L.P. has launched what it says is the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) focused on the global manufacturing of automobiles.
S&P Launches TIPS Index
With inflation concerns looming larger, S&P Indices has launched a TIPS Index.
Advisers Move Into Equities, Away from Treasuries
Advisers will be advising clients to move into domestic equities, emerging market equities, and global developed market equities and away from Treasury bills, U.S. fixed income, and...
Personal SEC Contact Not Needed From Whistleblower
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that a whistleblower need not personally contact the Securities and Exchange Commission to claim retaliation...
Report Rebuffs Arguments for Privatizing Social Security
A recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research critically analyzes previous attempts to explain conversions of government pension provision systems, or social security systems,...