Products & Services

Index provider Standard & Poor's has launched three new indexes.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is rolling out internal designation programs for financial advisers specializing in the sales and servicing of corporate defined contribution plans.

The Hartford Mutual Funds renamed its Global Equity Fund as The Hartford Global Research Fund.

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street Corporation, announced that the SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Corporate Bond ETF (SCPB) began trading on...

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has announced plans to introduce its new RetireSmart participant engagement platform in the second quarter of 2010.

The SPARK Institute has released a draft of new guidelines for ERISA-covered 403(b) plans that, due to new regulations, must now file a full Form 5500.

Index provider Russell Investments is teaming up with Axioma, Inc., a provider of tools for portfolio optimization and risk analysis, to create a series of factor-based indexes.

Diversified Investment Advisors, Inc., has released a white paper about 403(b) plan compliance with statutes of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

FaithShares Trust has rounded out its family of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) aiming to avoid investments objectionable to investors of various religious faiths.

FundQuest said it has improved the ability of advisers to offer custom reports on demand.

Symetra Life Insurance Company has launched Retirement Passport Group Variable Annuity for the 403(b)/457 market.

TIAA-CREF is the latest financial firm to offer an application for the iPhone.

Savings has a new social media "friend."

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., has launched two more of its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with low operating expense ratios and commission-free online trading in Schwab accounts.

Fidelity Investments announced recent additions to its offering of financial guidance and tools for investors.

Russell Investments has launched a set of benchmarks to track the small to mid-cap segment of the global equity market, known as SMID cap.

Northern Trust will offer environmental emission analytics which it said will enable institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals to effectively measure the carbon footprint of their investments.

Ascensus said it unveiled a 2010 proposal for financial advisers selling its plans.

Strategic Insight, an Asset International company, and Coates Analytics, are collaborating on a series of quarterly reports to help investment management firms navigate the broker/dealer...

Fund manager AllianceBernstein has newly registered six global asset allocation funds, according to Simfund Filing, a product of Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.