Products & Services

Wells Fargo Funds Management announced the successful merger of eight Wells Fargo Advantage Funds into other funds within the family.  

401kDIRECT and Summit Trust Company are introducing the DIRECT Multiple Employer Plan (MEP), for plan sponsors who want the benefits of a MEP while maintaining control over plan...

Northern Trust has enhanced the client experience for users of its Investment Risk and Analytical Services (IRAS) tools on Passport, its multi-faceted Web portal. 

Nationwide Financial has created a Web site to help advisers stay up-to-date on regulatory and legislative changes, after a survey it conducted found this to be one of...

Becker Capital Management is introducing an institutional share class for its Large Cap Value strategy, the Becker Value Equity Fund.

As part of its strategic focus and growth plans, Transamerica Retirement Services plans to roll out a 3(21) fiduciary service with Mesirow Financial.

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division is adding Mesirow's Financial Fiduciary Partnership Service to its retirement platform.

Employers with Securian Retirement plans will be able to find information faster on the company’s new Web portal for defined contribution plan sponsors.  

MassMutual Retirement Services is rolling out its latest version of the Third-Party Administrator (TPA) New Business Implementation Kit.

Eagle Asset Management has released a “no revenue share” R-6 share class for use by retirement plan sponsors and administrators.

LPL Financial has released an enhanced proprietary version of SearchPro, a Web-based qualified plan provider search and benchmarking tool.

Judy Diamond Associates, publisher of employee benefits industry prospecting tools and plan data, announced the delivery of 2010 plan year data.

Transamerica Asset Management Group is launching the Transamerica Global Tactical Income fund in October.

 Fiduciary advisor Roland|Criss has announces a new offering to help pension and foundation executives assess their vendors’ performance and fees.

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

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

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.”

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...