Deals & People

OppenheimerFunds, Inc. has appointed four industry veterans to newly created leadership positions within its marketing and distribution organizations.

International insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Benefits Unlimited, Inc. in Houston, Texas.

Curtis Arledge will be joining BNY Mellon as vice chairman of the corporation and chief executive officer of BNY Mellon Asset Management.

Janney Capital Markets has named Jennifer Feeley, Director, Institutional Equity Sales.

Wilmington Trust has hired Benjamin D. Gorton to help lead business development initiatives at Wilmington Trust Retirement and Institutional Services Company (WTRIS).  

Steven Kjar has joined Lockton in San Francisco as a Vice President and Retirement Plan Producer. 

CBIZ, Inc. has acquired South Winds, Inc., a Baltimore, Maryland-based retirement plan consulting firm, effective August 1, 2010.   

David Tyrie is joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch to lead Personal Retirement Solutions.

Black Diamond Performance Reporting announced that RIA industry veteran, Nancy Ma-Apfel, has joined the firm as Director of Client Service.

Greenwich Investment Management, Registered Investment Advisors, announced that Lawrence W. Doyle has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer.

401(k) Rekon, a Wilmington, North Carolina-based provider of adviser research and education, has opened an office near Phoenix, Arizona, the company announced. 

ConvergEx Group has named Jeff Pettiford as a senior vice president in Plan Sponsor Sales. 

MassMutual Retirement Services Division has appointed two new third-party administrator (TPA) relationship managers.

Raymond James & Associates recently recruited Tim Sheridan to be the firm’s New Jersey complex manager based in the Red Bank office. 

Citizens Financial Group (CFG) announced the appointment of Dawn Dupre as President of its full-service brokerage and investment adviser unit, CCO Investment Services Corp.  

American United Life Insurance Company (AUL), a OneAmerica company, has appointed James Gilligan to the position of regional sales director in the Orlando, Florida-based regional retirement services office.

Putnam Investments has hired a recognized academic to help drive development of a new generation of investment products aimed at mitigating investment risk factors.

New York Life Retirement Plan Services has appointed Joseph Stabnick as its new director of marketing, effective immediately.

Business owners looking to move on to a different life stage now have a new option. 

BNK Invest, Inc. has launched an exchange traded fund (ETF) research website.