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Salient Partners, L.P. announced its acquisition of Integrity Capital Services, LLC and named Integrity’s founder, Lee Partridge, as Salient’s Chief Investment Officer.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a rule that mandates hedge fund and private equity managers to register with the agency and be subject to unannounced examinations.

The median return of the BNY Mellon Master Trust Universe was 8.48% for the third quarter of 2010, reversing course from the -4.87 % return reported for Q2.

Nyhart, an Indianapolis-based independent actuarial and employee benefits consulting firm, announced what it calls standards for the Next Generation 401(k).

Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Yankees, once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

A federal indictment unsealed this week in the District of Minnesota alleges that a 62-year-old New Prague, Minnesota man embezzled approximately $642,166 from his company’s employee benefit...

AllianceBernstein L.P. has launched the AllianceBernstein International Discovery Equity Portfolio. 

Asked how often they formally evaluated their DC provider, larger programs were again this year noticeably less likely to say they did so on an annual basis.

A new report suggests that workplace retirement plan participation is down, but better than it has been in the past decade. 

Total 529 college savings plan assets increased to an estimated $127 billion as of 3Q10, reflecting an 8.5% increase from 2Q10 assets of $117 billion, according to the...

IndexIQ, a developer of index-based alternative investments, has partnered with institutional consultant Rocaton Investment Advisors.

E*TRADE Securities LLC expanded its retirement planning center, centralizing access to the free educational resources, planning tools, and products, the company announced.

The widow of a participant in Diebold Inc.'s supplemental executive retirement plan (SERP) did not meet the plan’s definition of “spouse,” so she was not entitled to her...

The length between the second and fourth finger on a man is an indicator of high levels of prenatal testosterone, which may lead to higher levels of risk-taking...

While concern over healthcare costs in retirement is the top answer in a recent Edward Jones’ poll, the percentage has shrunk from the last time the poll was...

The majority of American retirees see their children and grandchildren being unable to participate in the “American Dream” and afford retirement, according to a poll conducted by Protect...

MetLife is offering a new resource that provides employers and brokers with practical strategies for developing more competitive benefits programs for highly compensated employees.

Fifty-eight percent of more-affluent investors with investable assets of at least $200,000 cited emergency expenditures as the primary reason for keeping a portion of retirement savings in liquid...

There has reportedly been a settlement reached in a lawsuit alleging that the bank’s Merrill Lynch unit discriminated against women,

Understanding “new financial conservatism” was the subject of a recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch Webcast.