Tag: Retirement Plan Industry

 Prudential Investments introduced the Prudential Jennison International Opportunities Fund.

 ING Investment Management U.S. has rounded out the firm’s defined contribution investment only (DCIO) business team with a number of recent hires. 

Dave McLeod was promoted to senior vice president of product management at Great-West Life and Annuity Insurance Co. 

 Frederick Bailey was promoted to head of Citigroup Inc.’s North America consultant relations division.  

Arthur Georgantas joined New York Life Retirement Plan Services as vice president and senior relationship manager in the Taft-Hartley market.

Thomas Idzorek was promoted to president of Morningstar’s Global Investment Management Division. 

 How overwhelmed are you by too many passwords? Creating passwords with ever-higher standards of authentication?   

Matthew Haerr, Christine Soscia, Amir Arbabi, Peter Littlejohn and William Brown were hired as retirement plan consultants by LPL Financial LLC and Retirement Benefits Group.  

Plan fees account for nearly one-third of an investor’s potential returns, a paper found.

ETF Portfolio Partners Inc., an advisory firm that manages portfolios of exchanged-traded funds (ETFs), hired David A. Vaughn as a senior investment adviser.   

Designing an employee benefits package to attract and retain people who drive profits makes sense, according to Bob Westbrook, financial planner at Strategic Wealth Associates.

More than half of Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are projected to have adequate retirement income to cover basic expenses and uninsured health care costs.

 The Retirement Services Division promoted Kevin Reilly to relationship manager and hired Thomas Nawrocki as senior relationship manager.   

Knowledge about retiree health care expenses is minimal, but concern about it is growing.

What’s the most expensive city for U.S. business travel? Washington? New York? San Francisco?

The Segal Company has promoted Diane Gleave to New York regional manager.

Barclays PLC announced it would sell its entire holding in BlackRock Inc. via a registered offering and a $1 billion buyback by BlackRock.

Jeffrey C. Boucek joined Segal RogersCasey’s Atlanta office as senior vice president.

Nevin Adams has been named director of the American Savings Education Council.

DCAdvisors has appointed John Rowe to its client consulting group and leadership team.