A class-action lawsuit alleges that the company breached its fiduciary duties in connection with a change in the investment menu. Most of the assets in the $1.4 billion plan went into Russell Investment target-date funds, according to the complaint.
The median level of debt for people over age 50 has tripled over the past 30 years, according to a recent analysis by the Government Accountability Office.
The four-adviser group is moving to the firm’s employee unit in Augusta, Georgia and will operate as the Cypress Wealth Group.
The leadership changes announced May 20 position a slate of potential successors to CEO James Gorman who are mostly white and male.
The agency says the New York institutional firm mismarked hedge fund orders.
The legislation introduced Thursday would amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to specifically allow plans to consider ESG factors 'when they are expected to have an impact on investment outcomes, provided plans consider them in a prudent manner consistent with their fiduciary obligations.'
More than a year of virtual events highlighted the appeal of quality content, and could change the look and feel of industry events that will now have to balance glitz, content, fees and virtual access.
Best Buy and ADP have joined Voya, UPS, Mastercard and others in working with BlackRock's Emergency Savings Initiative.
The program broadens the relationship the fund company began last year with HarbourVest to serve institutional clients.
Andy Saperstein, head of wealth management, was named co-president along with Ted Pick, head of trading, as Gorman positions a small group as his most likely successors.
Over the next three years, the positions are expected to be eliminated in Switzerland alone, with the bulk at the corporate cost center and about 200 between wealth management and the bank’s Swiss unit for personal and corporate banking.
Companies that have waded into the PEPs business as pooled plan providers see tax-exempt organizations as very attractive, having even more potential than groups eligible to operate 401(k)s.
John Farrell and Joel East are joining the UBS branch in Fort Worth, Texas.
The states advanced respective bills, with the one in New York amending its voluntary IRA law to an automatic design and the one in Illinois dramatically lowering the threshold for mandatory participation in its existing program.
It can close the savings gaps for employees and create revenue opportunities.
In the first quarter, a total of 86 deals took place, and the wealthtech sector already has outpaced 2020’s year-end total funding of $5.2 billion.
About 800 T. Rowe employees will be offered jobs with FIS; the transition is effective Aug. 1.
Viridian Advisors, an $846 million RIA, will bring CPAs and tax expertise to Edelman.
The U.S. is seeing a supercharged federal budget combine with a lax monetary policy posture, just as in the 1960s, when the combination led to the start of a years-long climb in inflation.
Professionals in any trade “have a sacred obligation to the client and society as a whole,” Blaine Aikin, founder of Fiduciary Insights, said in the keynote presentation at the InvestmentNews RIA Summit.
