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The USAA Nasdaq 100 Index Fund (USNQX) has made its way onto the T. Rowe Price retirement platform, Money Management Executive has learned.

A Connecticut advisory firm has developed a new approach to help financial planners solve client problems more quickly and efficiently. The activity is aimed at strengthening internal communications across service units, exchanging institutional knowledge, supporting business strategy and day-to-day management initiatives, and developing personnel skills.

The future of a uniform fiduciary standard regulating the broker-dealer and RIA space is unlikely, according to Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America.

Irascible investing legend John Bogle questioned whether target-date mutual funds are the right retirement investment choice in all cases.

To compete with larger industry players, RIAs must improve their processes, according to a new study by Aite Group and Envestnet/Tamarac.

Regulators are focusing attention on ensuring community banks have proper security systems in place in the wake of a string of cyberattacks on megabanks.

The most important thing an advisor can do for clients is to integrate their investment portfolios with the rest of their financial needs, according to Morningstar’s director of global fund research.

Why do some wealth management firms experience explosive growth while others plod along at a more leisurely pace? To answer this question, Fidelity recently invited senior executives from nine firms that manage $1 billion or more to join us for a full-day discussion of what’s driving growth.

Last year, 36% of all participants in 401(k) retirement plans at Vanguard invested their plan assets in a professionally managed investment option, more than doubled from 17% at the end of 2007, according to the Valley Forge, Penn.-based firm.

Buyer beware! The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority today issued an investor alert regarding the burgeoning alternative mutual fund asset class.