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Accretive Floats High Yield Bond Indices

by on November 1, 2011

Accretive Asset Management has unveiled a new range of fixed income indices

Brazil Allows SWF To Act In FX Market

by on November 1, 2011

Brazil has permitted its sovereign wealth fund to act in the foreign exchange market

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Brazil Allows SWF To Act In FX Market

First Trust Axes Derivs From ETFs

November 1, 2011

First Trust has decided not to use derivatives in any active exchangetraded funds

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FSBA Selects Risk Model Finalists

November 1, 2011

Florida State Board of Administration has shortlisted finalists to provide a total risk model and a hedge fund risk model to its board

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Kansas PERS Invests 75M In UBS Fund

November 1, 2011

The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System has committed about 75 million to the UBS Trumbull Property Fund

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Schroder Boosts US Intermediary Team

November 1, 2011

Schroder Investment Management North America has appointed six onshore and offshore intermediary executives to enhance its focus on the business

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SEI NonProfit Head Exits

November 1, 2011

SEI Investments managing director of the nonprofit group Carolyn McLaurin has stepped down from her role

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UBS Floats Opportunistic Bond Fund

November 1, 2011

UBS Global Asset Management has launched a new opportunistic fixed income fund

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Van Eck To Launch Commodity ETF

November 1, 2011

Van Eck Global is planning to float broadbased commodity futures ETF

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Wurts Associates Hires Consultant

November 1, 2011

Wurts Associates has appointed Jason Taylor as a senior consultant

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BNY Mellon Wealth Boosts Nevada Team

October 2, 2011

BNY Mellon Wealth Management has appointed Robert Glaser as vice president and senior director

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CA To Pass Two Bills For CalSTRS CalPERS

October 2, 2011

California Controller John Chang is sponsoring two new bills for CalSTRS and CalPERS

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Horizons BetaPro Unveils NA Copper ETF

October 2, 2011

Horizons BetaPro has started North Americas first nonleveraged copper exchangetraded fund

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NASRA Executive Director Exits

October 2, 2011

National Association of State Retirement Administrators is seeking an executive director

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Northrop To Contribute 562M To DB Plans

October 2, 2011

Northrop Grumman is expecting to allocate about 562 million to its defined benefit plans in 2011

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Oklahoma Teachers Awards MLP Mandates

October 2, 2011

Oklahoma Teachers Retirement System has awarded a mandate to three companies to run 5 of its 96 billion in total assets

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SEC Probes Insider Trading Via ETFs

October 2, 2011

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is probing whether traders are using ETFs as a means of disguising insider trading

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Texas To Up Mesirow Portfolio To 300M

October 2, 2011

The 244 billion Texas Permanent School Fund PSF will boost the Raven 2 portfolio managed by Mesirow to 300 million from 215 million

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BlackRock VC To Step Down

October 1, 2011

Blake Grossman a vice chairman at BlackRock is leaving the firm by the end of the first quarter to pursue other opportunities

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BP America Reappoints Fidelity

October 1, 2011

BP America has retained US financial services group Fidelity Investments as its administrative service provider

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ETFS Metal Funds Reach 35B In Assets

October 1, 2011

ETF Securities USA has reached a total of 35 billion in assets under management for six of its products

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HighMark Funds Adds To Trustee Board

October 1, 2011

HighMark Funds has appointed Mindy Posoff president of Traversent Capital Partners in Philadelphia to its sevenmember board of trustees

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Holy Cross Appoints Investment Chief

October 1, 2011

The College of the Holy Cross has appointed Timothy Jarry as CIO

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PFs Ask Banks For Foreclosure Reviews

October 1, 2011

A group of seven public pension systems has asked four US banks to review their mortgage and foreclosure practices

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Prudential To Guarantee Retirement Funds

October 1, 2011

Prudential Financial is assuring 401k depositors they cant lose their principal and accrued interest

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WBI Unveils Absolute Return MFs

October 1, 2011

WBI Investments has launched two new absolute return mutual funds for its individual and institutional investors

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ExMSIM Vet Forms Wealth Firm

September 2, 2011

Pactolus Private Wealth Management has launched its operations with a financial services platform

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iShares RE ETF Gets 442M New Investment

September 2, 2011

The iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate ETF obtained 4418 million in new investments on Feb7 2011

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Target Date Funds Get A Makeover

September 2, 2011

Targetdate fund managers dont outright admit it but they have reined in their risktaking since the market crash of 2008 when they were barraged by furious customers regulators and Congress members who claimed that the labeling of 2010 funds and maybe others was misleading

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WisdomTree Adds Member To Board

September 2, 2011

ETF sponsor and asset manager WisdomTree has appointed Steven Begleiter to its board of directors

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Huntington Wins FTJ FundChoice Mandate

August 2, 2011

FTJ FundChoice has signed an agreement with Huntington

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New Fee Disclosure Rules No Threat to Mutual Fund Providers

August 2, 2011

Mutual fund providers are expecting to make a largely smooth transition when new fee and disclosure requirement take effect for firms that sell investment products into the 401k and 403b plan markets

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OPERS Chief Departs To Join Ingenix

August 2, 2011

Ohio Public Employees Retirement Systems CEO Chris DeRose has stepped down from his role

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AIG Unit To Get Added Funding For Plan

July 2, 2011

AIGs unit American General Finance AGF will get 4 million in additional funding for its pension plans

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Alliance Benefit Merges With Pentegra

July 2, 2011

Alliance Benefit Group Carolinas has become a new unit of retirement products and services provider Pentegra Retirement Services

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FocusShares To Float Equity ETFs

July 2, 2011

New Jerseybased ETF firm FocusShares will launch 15 new equity funds

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ING Expands Fiduciary Service Program

July 2, 2011

INGs US Retirement Services business will expand its program for researching selecting and monitoring plan investments to support more types of employers

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Lincoln Financial Boosts Intermediary Team

July 2, 2011

Lincoln Financial Distributors has expanded its defined contribution 401k intermediary team with the appointment of regional sales directors

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San Francisco Seeks Deputy Director

July 2, 2011

San Francisco Employees Retirement System is seeking a new deputy division director

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TD Ameritrade RIAs To Pick SEC Over FINRA

July 2, 2011

TD Ameritrade is requesting the Congress to leave investment adviser firms under the watch of the Securities and Exchange Commission

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Transamerica Names Southern Regional Head

July 2, 2011

Transamerica Retirement Services has appointed Steve Marsh as regional vice president in the companys Southern region

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Schroders Unveils Frontier Markets Fund

July 1, 2011

Schroders has added a frontier markets fund to its offshore fund range

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Alta Picks Huntington For Transfer Agency

July 1, 2011

Alta Trust has appointed Huntington Asset Services to provide transfer agency services

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CIBC Mellon Wins Canadian Mandate

July 1, 2011

CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services has been selected by the Canadian Christian School Pension Trust Fund

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Grail Advisors Seeks To Sell Firm

July 1, 2011

Grail Advisors is seeking to sell a part of or the entire firm

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Janus Unveils Bond EM Funds

July 1, 2011

Janus Capital Group has launched the Janus Global Bond Fund and the Janus Emerging Markets Fund

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Newport Hires ExInvesco Director

July 1, 2011

Newport Group has named Rob Schaffernoth as vice president retirement services

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Ohio PF To Redeem From Two Funds

July 1, 2011

The Ohio Police Fire Pension Fund is issuing redemption queues for two openended commingled funds in which it has invested

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