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The Investment Company Institute (ICI) said plaintiffs’ contentions in Tibble v. Edison International that so-called “retail” mutual funds offered by the plan would not have been offered by...

Alliance Pension Consultants, LLC has unveiled its Total Plan Cost analysis.

Van Eck Global has launched Market Vectors Mortgage REIT Income ETF (MORT).

Spectrem reports that the percentage of U.S. millionaires using Facebook nearly doubled in 2011 to 46%, up from 26% in 2010. 

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found that the increase of older workers in the workforce is related to reduced availability of pensions and retiree health...

Investors believe that the global economy will slow significantly in the coming 12 months but will avoid dipping back into recession, according to BofA Merrill Lynch's Survey of...

Russell Investments analysts say that the market volatility of the past week was not reacting directly to the downgrade of the U.S.’s credit rating, but rather to the...

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).

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (RPS) has introduced the John Hancock Education Resource Center.

Russell Investments has released a video tutorial which provides institutional investors with an overview of how to give a portfolio a “hedge fund tune up.”

Principal Global Investors, along with the retirement and actuarial services division of the Principal Financial Group, has launched “LDI 2.0.”

In the first half of 2011, long-term fund flows reached $370 billion (including Canada and Brazil), despite a difficult economic and political environment globally.

In the month of July, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan G fund, the most conservative investment offered by the plan, hit a new monthly record: almost $5.6 billion was...

The Institutional Retirement Income Council (IRIC) published an issue brief detailing why plan sponsor concerns about possible adverse reactions from employees to retirement income products appear to be...

Commonwealth Financial Network developed the Commonwealth Model Management platform to help advisers with systematic managing and rebalancing of client portfolios. 

Benefits brokers and consultants appear optimistic about the future of their firms and see a host of opportunities to provide increasing value to their clients, a MetLife survey...

A recent report from Cerulli says that current market volatility is likely to spur more clients to seek additional support, as was the case in 2008.  

An S&P report contends that if the goal of employers is to offer retirement plans that are capable of generating adequate retirement funding for participants, then index funds...

Newkirk is rolling out a single document participant fee disclosure solution for ERISA 403(b) plans.