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BNY Mellon Shareholder Services has launched Mobile Proxy Voting, enabling client companies to extend electronic proxy voting to smartphones, tablets and other web-connected mobile devices.

ING knows people of all ages are now virtually tethered to their smartphones and tablet PCs, so it’s rolling out a new program to help employees instantly enroll in their employers’ retirement plans.

A senior executive with FINRA sought to tamp down the concerns that many investment advisors have raised about empowering the self-regulatory organization with oversight of the sector, pledging that significant reforms would accompany any such transition.

Barclays Wealth has continued its hiring streak of U.S.-based professionals focusing on Latin American ultra-high-net-worth clients.

ING’s U.S. retirement division has launched iEnroll, mobile enrollment for 401(k) plans whereby participants can instantly enroll in their workplace retirement plan. iEnroll is available on mobile devices as well as through tablets that on-site ING enrollment specialists will have on hand.

WASHINGTON -- A top official with the Labor Department defended the controversial plan to expand the definition of "fiduciary" to cover people providing advice to retirement plans on a commission-based model, a proposal strongly opposed by industry groups representing independent broker-dealers and advisers.

Of the many policy issues surrounding the investment advisor sector, few are more charged than the question of where regulatory authority should properly be housed. And those divergent viewpoints were on full display at the annual advocacy summit hosted by the Financial Services Institute.

A doctoral candidate and his advisor from Texas Tech University won the Retirement Income Industry Association's first Thought Leadership Award, the association announced at its fall conference Tuesday.

Investors appear to have switched gears from focusing on replenishing their balances from 2008’s market downturn to taking all of the responsible steps to prepare for retirement, according to Principal Financial Group’s analysis of retirement plan participants’ behavior in 2010.

One or more Internet users claiming to be the digital activist group known as Anonymous Hackers said overnight that it intends to take down the New York Stock Exchange’s public website next week.