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RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 23, 2007
T. Rowe gets into 401(k) annuities

The mutual fund giant said that it has started offering 401(k) plans an online platform that participants can use to purchase annuities.

RIA NEWS APR 23, 2007
Money manager opts for ETF over fund

NEW YORK — When veteran money manager James H. Huguet decided to bring to a broader audience the large-cap approach he uses for separately managed accounts, he decided to forgo creating a conventional mutual fund.

WIREHOUSES APR 23, 2007
Schwab’s donor-advised-fund assets closing in on Vanguard’s

BOSTON — The Schwab Charitable Fund is nipping at the heels of the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program as the nation’s second-largest donor-advised fund.

OPINION APR 23, 2007
The Big Four of certification and assessment

Courts and regulators will evaluate your effectiveness as an investment adviser against a process standard — as opposed to a performance standard.

RIA NEWS APR 23, 2007
Canadian groups are proposing fund risk ratings

OTTAWA — Two approaches for assessing mutual fund and hedge fund risk are moving forward in Canada.

WIREHOUSES APR 23, 2007
Smith Barney reps ecstatic over cost cuts

IRVINE, Calif. — Smith Barney reps are supportive of the cost-cutting plan New York-based Citigroup Inc. announced April 11.

MUTUAL FUNDS APR 23, 2007
Activists press funds to nix big comp deals

BOSTON — Labor activists are using a Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring mutual fund proxy disclosure to ratchet up the pressure on executive compensation that they consider excessive.

ETFS APR 23, 2007
Two high-yield funds aim to help hedge risk

PHILADELPHIA — At a time when many financial advisers think that investors should stay away from high-yield bonds because they are too risky, along come two high-yield products that investors can use to hedge some of that risk.

RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 23, 2007
401(k) changes seen ‘significant’

WASHINGTON — New default options that the Department of Labor will likely approve for 401(k) investments will have a “significant” impact on the way mutual fund assets are invested, independent fund directors were told at a conference here April 12.

RIA NEWS APR 23, 2007
Tech IPOs poised to make a comeback in New York

NEW YORK — Dice Holdings Inc., which operates career- and job-oriented websites, including Dice.com and JobsintheMoney .com, plans to raise $100 million through an initial public offering.