Deals & People

CAPTRUST Financial Advisors today announced the opening of its newest regional office located inside greater Minneapolis-St. Paul.  

Gemma Wright-Casparius has joined Vanguard’s Fixed Income Group as a principal and senior portfolio manager.

Mercer has named Senior Partner Tom Murphy as Head of its Investment Management business for the U.S. region, effective September 1, 2011. 

Ross Plumberg has been appointed Great-West Retirement Services’ regional 401(k) sales director for Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has hired Matthew Mintzer as head of National Accounts and leader of the Defined Contribution (DC) Advisor Team for the company's Defined Contribution Investment...

Schwab Advisor Services data on registered investment adviser (RIA) mergers and acquisitions activity for the first half of 2011 shows M&A activity is down from 2010, but deal...

American United Life Insurance Company (AUL), a OneAmerica company, selected Benjamin Herrera as director of national retirement education for retirement services.

Louis Slagle was promoted to sales director of Securian Financial Group’s Independent Distribution Group (IDG).

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced Jeffrey P. Crandall is joining the firm in New York as a partner in its Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice. 

Bill Simon, Jr. has joined Brinker Capital in the newly created position of Managing Director, Retirement Plan Services.

Natixis announced that William Maier has been appointed Head of Corporate and Sponsor Coverage for North America.

Stephen Johnson and Eric Mull will join Wilmington Trust as part of the company’s business development initiative.

M&I Institutional Trust Services has named Jeffrey Wallace as Vice President and Regional Sales Director for California and Nevada.

Security Benefit Corporation announced that Michael Kiley will become Chief Executive Officer effective September 30, 2011.

Reliance Trust Company hired attorney and industry veteran Robert F. Cook as Executive Vice President and a manager of the Church and Non-Profit division.

The U.S. real estate business of UBS Global Asset Management appointed Laurie Tillinghast as Executive Director, Defined Contribution Product and Strategy.

The Standard has announced the appointment of two new pension consultants. 

More than 12,000 LPL Financial advisers will become members of the Financial Services Institute (FSI), an advocacy group for independent broker/dealers and advisers, as part of a new...

Westminster Consulting appointed Gabriel Potter as Senior Investment Research Associate.

Global consultant Towers Watson hired three investment analysts in Australia: Deepti Tammareddi, Andrew Tay, and Jordan Taylor.