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The First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund (NASDAQ: QABA) is scheduled to begin trading on July 1.

SAM Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), a Zurich-based investment firm, has launched a new mutual fund for U.S. investors, the SAM Sustainable Global Active Fund.

UAT, a Denver-based technology and consulting company, has unveiled Unified Compliance and Control System (UCCS), a pre-trade compliance and real-time risk management system it says will bolster the...

Transamerica Retirement Services unveiled an audio tool to help financial advisers build and maintain profitable business in the growing small-plan retirement market.

A study found that employers strongly support making broader retirement and financial advice more accessible for workers.

It’s now been nearly three weeks since our Plan Designs conference in Chicago and, once again, I got so many interesting ideas, so much good information—well, I’m still...

It’s now been nearly three weeks since our Plan Designs conference in Chicago and, once again, I got so many interesting ideas, so much good information—well, I’m still...

Payden&Rygel has hired John Villegas for the firm’s Retirement Services Group.

In response to the potential for an increase in the number of abandoned or orphaned plans resulting from the down economy, PenChecks has developed the PenChecks Automated Solution...

Once two 401(k) plan administrators learned a dead participant’s common-law spouse was legally validating her marital status, the plans should have postponed distribution of the participant’s balance until...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that Motorola Inc. and fiduciaries of its 401(k) plan did not breach their fiduciary duties under the...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently added updated tools to its Employee Plan Team Audit (EPTA) Web site.

In a joint hearing on target-date funds before the Department of Labor (DoL) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), witnesses were in favor of the use of...

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., could find itself facing a participant lawsuit.

A Watson Wyatt survey found that a third (34%) of workers have increased their planned retirement age in the last 12 months.

ExpertPlan, provider of defined contribution plan recordkeeping solutions, announced it has hired Steven Hart as vice president, Sales and Business Development.

M Financial Group, a financial services design and distribution company, announced that Erben Associates, LLC, has become a provisional member firm.

Target-date funds’ allocations among stock and bond subclasses were among the primary determinants of the funds’ performance, new Vanguard Group research found.

The House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Pensions and Labor has approved the 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 1984) and the Conflicted Investment Advice Prohibition Act...

The Vanguard Group has added a new interactive target-date glide path tool to its Web site to help participants better understand how the asset allocations of the its...