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Data from the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) suggests retirement savings progress has slowed and even reversed in the wake of the financial crisis.

 Pentegra Retirement Services introduced an online education tool for plan sponsors and participants.   

Other popular asset classes advisers are considering include non-U.S. fixed income, alternatives, real assets and commodities, Cogent Research found.

Uzurp.com opened its financial adviser and registered investment adviser (RIA) databases to the public, for the same annual subscription rate as businesses of $999 a year.

 John Hancock Life Insurance’s Advanced Markets Group developed two technology tools for funding retirement appropriately, and helping project estate values and taxes.   

Michael Hull and Patrick Hull have launched bluepoint Investment Counsel LLC.

The Retirement Advisor Council released a template request for proposal (RFP) questionnaire for use by 401(k) and 403(b) plan sponsors looking to select an adviser.  

The company, Savant Capital LLC, will provide strategic advantages and efficiencies, and have nearly $2.7B assets under management.

Russell Investments compiled a handbook outlining the major issues facing corporate pension plan sponsors.

Assets in employer-sponsored retirement plans, IRAs and annuities totaled $17.9 trillion at year-end 2011, up slightly from 2010, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America created a planning tool to give investors and advisers a “framework for a retirement income strategy.” 

High-net-worth women put a high premium on performance and personalization from their financial advisers, a survey by Schwab Advisor...

PENSCO launched PENSCO SuccessorCustodian.

Achaean Financial announced a strategic partnership with Envestnet, which will allow the integration of Achaean's software into Envestnet’s wealth management platform.

One-third of all 401(k) plan participants in plans recordkept by Vanguard invested their entire account balance in a professionally managed asset allocation and investment option in 2011.

Russell Investments released its newly reconstituted Global Indexes following its annual index reconstitution late last week, benchmarking about $3.9 trillion in assets.   

Safeguard Financial introduced a managed real estate investment program for self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRA) and 401(k) plans.

Florida broker saw lunar effects on the stock market, but managed to miss the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fraud charges coming his way.

Charles Schwab made available 28 universal workflows in the Schwab OpenView Workflow Library through Schwab Intelligent Technologies.

Five dynamic allocation models powered by CAPTRUST research were introduced by Jefferson National.