Deals & People

Federated Investors, Inc. and Fifth Third Bank reached an agreement under which Federated will acquire certain assets relating to the management of Fifth Third money market funds.

BMO Global Asset Management has rebranding its defined contribution services business, now known as BMO Retirement Services.

Tom LaBrie was appointed a managing principal of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., part of Lincoln Financial Group.

Transamerica Retirement Services promoted Chad Brown to division vice president for the company’s Southern region.  

  Sue Crosby and Dan Burke were appointed to key leadership positions at Mercer.    

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division named a new senior relationship manager and managing director to its sales and client management organization.   

J.P. Morgan Asset Management promoted Tom Fisher to the role of head of Americas Consultant Strategy Team.

Anova Consulting Group appointed Arnold Boecklin as an executive interviewer.  

Principal Funds added three regional directors to its investment-only team.

Andrew J. Silverberg joined Market Asset Management Corp. as an executive vice president and partner.  

Steve Foster joined Comperio Retirement Consulting Inc. 

Joanne T. Burns joined The Segal Co. as senior vice president and national communications practice leader.   

J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services (RPS), the retirement plan recordkeeping business of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, hired Carol Waddell as managing director and head of product and marketing.

Peter Dorsey has been named managing director of institutional sales for TD Ameritrade Institutional, a division of TD Ameritrade Inc.

PLANSPONSOR has named the winners of the 2012 PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Adviser and Retirement Plan Adviser Team of the Year awards.

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has added two relationship managers to its client services team.

Mellon Capital Management Corporation named G. Kent Fleming as director of institutional sales for the northeastern United States.

Pete Swisher joined Pentegra Retirement Services as senior vice president of national sales.

Invest n Retire LLC (INR) appointed Agustin J. (Gus) Fleites as chief executive officer.

National Planning Holdings Inc. (NPH) named Frank Hayn vice president of retirement plans.