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There are a growing number of advisor-focused "value-added programs" that fund firms are using to lure top producing and other advisors to sell their wares to investors.

The Hartford is expanding its defined contribution platform with a trio of new managers and a slew of funds for retirement plan sponsors and participants.

Women advisors need to stop excluding themselves from male-dominated events if they want to continue rising through the ranks, advisors said at the NAPFA National conference in Chicago.

Brian K. Evans may work out of an office overlooking the Pacific Ocean, but that Left Coast location may just give him the chance to, as Apple's semantically incorrect advertising used to proclaim, think different.

The new platform aims to help banks satisfy growing investor appetite for online trading and self-service investing capabilities.

Pacific Investment Management Company, of course, runs the world's largest mutual fund. Its Total Return Fund counts assets of nearly one-quarter of a trillion dollars.

If you think social media investing is about pajama-wearing day-trading amateurs, Covestor aims to prove you wrong.

Investment Company Institute chief executive Paul Schott Stevens said last Wednesday that mutual funds need to make investments in commodities and derivative securities such as futures contracts in order to manage market swings and protect returns of the everyday investors that want the kind of "skills and insights" otherwise "available only to the wealthiest Americans."

For Mother’s Day, millions of American women could use the gift of solid retirement planning. But before offering investment advice, wealth managers need to know the challenges women face. Here are 10 of the biggest.

Tom Nally, TD Ameritrade Institutional’s new president said during a keynote address at NAPFA, that when it comes to appealing to women investors, advisors can't "just think you can change your font to pink and you have it covered."