
Margarida Correia
Former associate editorMargarida Correia is a former associate editor of the Employee Benefits Group and of Bank Investment Consultant.

Margarida Correia is a former associate editor of the Employee Benefits Group and of Bank Investment Consultant.
Nearly six in 10 business owners (59%) expect to be in a good financial position over the next 12 months, down from 66% who said so in second quarter.
Portfolio managers from Huntington Asset Advisors' US Equity Rotation Strategy ETF discuss their top picks in IT and health care.
Advisors contributed to the growth in Fidelity's defined contribution sales commitments during the first half of 2012, bringing in more than 450 new clients with close to 100,000 participants and $2.6 billion in assets under administration.
The online tool analyzes program data against industry averages and best practices drawn from more than 2,800 financial institutions.
Investors steered an estimated $17.1 billion into exchange-traded funds and notes in July, bringing their total investment in the products to $93 billion for the year.
For the week ended July 25, investors pulled an estimated $2.13 billion from U.S. stock funds, reversing the previous week's $95 million inflow, their first inflow since late May, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Income disparities over the past 30 years have translated into a 25% to 30% retirement savings shortfall for women, according to the Insured Retirement Institute.
Volatility targeting investment strategies have gained traction in recent years, but investors should be cautious about employing them, BNY Mellon argues in a new report.
Gailyn Johnson, a 23-year veteran of Wells Fargo, will lead technology, operations, and corporate shared services, working with all wealth management business lines.
Wealth management services brought in $7.2 million in revenue in the second quarter, up 42.1% from the $5.1 million generated in the year-ago quarter. The boost was driven primarily by the bank's acquisition of Davidson Trust in May.
Timothy P. Mertz joined Northern Trust as a senior private banker and relationship manager and will lead a three-person banking team.
Just 1% of the plan participants surveyed stopped contributing to their DC plan accounts, unchanged from the year-ago quarter.
The trio brings the total staff to 19, up from 12 a year ago when the firm purchased the asset management business of Chicago-based Talon Asset Management.
Huntingtons second venture into the ETF market will be actively managed and use a sector-rotation strategy.
BNY Mellon has hired a former Northern Trust wealth strategist to be senior director in the firms Naples, Fla., office, in response to growing business in the region.
Employees are willing and able to save more money for retirement through their workplace retirement plans. They just dont know the best way to do it.
For the week ended July 11, bond funds took in $6.39 billion, the most of any fund category. Long-term equity funds, meanwhile, lost $1.47 billion in outflows.
The worlds largest international wealth management firms performed better than lower-tier firms on many fronts, including net new money and pre-tax profit growth.
Investment Centers of America beefs up its practice management program with newly created senior position.
Thomas P. Fay oversees a team of wealth professionals geared to high-net-worth investors in Southeast New England.