Deals & People

Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Adam Blitz as regional sales director for Long Island, New York.

T. Rowe Price announced recent hires within the Retirement Plan Services sales team.

Principal Funds has hired Jeff Tyler as portfolio manager for Principal LifeTime Funds target-date fund series, effective March 1, 2011.

SageView Advisory Group has hired Jason Smith and Jodi Macleod to work in its newly created Omaha, Nebraska, office. 

Manulife Asset Management has acquired Optique Capital Management, a registered investment adviser (RIA) based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Trademark Capital Management has acquired Athens Capital Group, LLC, as part of a national growth strategy.

Prudential Real Estate Investors announced that Steven McSkimming and Larry Teitelbaum have joined the U.S. marketing team.

Transamerica Retirement Services has hired William Paluch as regional vice president in the company’s Central Region.

Glenn Dial has left J.P. Morgan Asset Management to reportedly take a role with Allianz Global Investors.

Putnam Investments has appointed Anne Lundberg as Senior Vice President and Consultant Relations Manager, Midwest Region.

John Farmakis has joined DST Retirement Solutions as vice president of sales.

PLANSPONSOR, an Asset International company, has announced the finalists for its annual Retirement Plan Adviser and Adviser Team of the Year awards.

Jeleen Guttenberg joined the Bracewell & Giuliani LLP law firm, which specializes in employee benefits, ERISA and Executive Compensation matters.

Frank Moore is the newest retirement plan consultant in the Birmingham, Alabama, office of CPI Qualified Plan Consultants.

F. Mackey Hughes has joined Wilmington Trust as managing director of endowments and foundations for the Wealth Advisory Services (WAS) business, the company announced.

Symetra Life Insurance Company named John Richter as vice president of National Accounts.

Alliance Benefit Group Carolinas has become a division of Pentegra Retirement Services.

Transamerica Retirement Services has hired Steve Marsh as regional vice president in the company’s Southern Region.

Towers Watson has hired Michael Hall as West Division Investment Leader.

Stifel Nicolaus' equity research will now be available to National Financial broker/dealers (B/Ds) via Streetscape, the online brokerage workstation.