Tag: Investment Managers

Susan L. Wagner, a co-founding partner of BlackRock Inc., will retire at the end of June.

 Neuberger Berman Group LLC launched the Neuberger Berman Absolute Return Multi-Manager Fund with multiple sub-advisers on Monday.   

Putnam Investments plans to offer two new share classes to qualified retirement plans.

Federated Investors, Inc. and Fifth Third Bank reached an agreement under which Federated will acquire certain assets relating to the management of Fifth Third money market funds.

Putnam Investments has added three to its adviser-focused defined contribution sales team, and says more hires are to come.

 Allianz Global Investors Capital (AGIC) is offering investors managed volatility investment strategies designed to lower expected portfolio risk while achieving above-benchmark returns. 

Seventy percent of investment managers expect a similar level of volatility as in 2011 to continue through 2012.

300 North Capital, LLC named Brown Windle and Christopher Vassilopoulos as senior vice presidents for Institutional Sales.   

Advisers’ interest in alternative investments is on the rise, and smaller, boutique asset managers may meet the criteria advisers want more than larger, “brand name” firms.

Retirement Desk, a firm specializing in small and mid-sized retirement plans, is offering an investment management solution. 

Goldman Sachs’ co-head of asset management, Edward C. Forst, has announced his plans for retirement.   

Alternative Investment Group has appointed Joel Gantcher as managing director, head of manager research, and Samuel Sussman as managing director, head of investment strategy. 

Sixty-three percent of investment managers surveyed by SEI at its annual CFO Forum for Alternative Investment Managers are optimistic about their firm’s prospects over the next three years. 

Transamerica Retirement Services has expanded the core investment platform offered to company-sponsored retirement plans with the addition of 38 stock and bond investment choices.

A McKinsey analysis of the asset management industry shows that growth has been more difficult to achieve than profitability, with only one in five asset managers sustaining above-average...

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America named Carsten Quitter as its new chief investment officer.

The current selling process has shifted beyond the “gatekeeper” role for advisers, to one where the adviser or consultant is much more involved in the investment menu design...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has introduced a new design for the core menu line-up in defined contribution plans, called Core Menu Innovation (CMI).

Rogerscasey has hired Peter Gerlings as Managing Director, Investment Solutions.