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

fi360 appointed Byron Bowman to general counsel.

Sentinel Investments expanded the roles of two sales team members and hired a wholesaler.

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) participant fee disclosure requirements go into effect August 30, and the majority of plan sponsors surveyed are ready.

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

The Newport Group hired Eric Kleindienst as a senior client relationship manager. 

Vanguard’s managing director and chief investment officer is retiring.

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.

Gary J. Martel, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with defrauding investors of $1.6 million. His assets were also frozen.

 They like dividend-producing stocks and are tempering expectations for fixed income, a survey found.  

ING U.S. hired Rich Linton as president of Individual Markets.

Being overly accommodating to clients seems like a logical way for plan advisers to run a business—but sometimes it can actually endanger it.

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

Morningstar Inc. released Morningstar Analyst Ratings and Global Fund Reports for approximately 40 alternative U.S. mutual funds, representing about 75% of the alternative fund universe by assets.  

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Alexandre Voitenok joined Acadian Asset Management LLC as senior vice president and portfolio manager.  

The deadline is approaching to amend affected deferred compensation arrangements to comply with Code Section 409A requirements for payments contingent on execution of a release of claims.

Benchmarking services are emerging that can compare the suite of retirement plan services against costs to plans of similar size and complexity.

Groom Law Group, Chartered, which focuses exclusively on employee benefits, hired five attorneys.