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One area where women are being left behind is in corporate America, said Aditi Mohapatra, Senior Sustainability Analyst at Calvert Investment Management, at the Women Advisors Forum in Chicago on Monday.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. on Monday said it struck a deal to buy Royal Bank of Canada's U.S. retail banking operations for $3.45 billion.

Royal Bank of Canada plans to grow its U.S wealth and capital markets businesses after agreeing to sell its U.S. retail banking operations to PNC Financial Services Group.

BlackRock sees U.S. growth coming this year. Hays Advisory sees profits for U.S. manufacturing as the currencies of emerging markets strengthen. Raymond James says the markets are making a low and will turn up. Barclays doesn¡¯t expect to see more Fed stimulus. But Glenmede sees increased risk of a U.S slowdown.

DST Vision, the web-based account management tool for financial intermediaries, is now available on web-enabled smart phones, including iPhone, Android and BackBerry.

Half of all U.S. employees are really not happy at their jobs, according to Mercer’s latest survey which covers 2,400 workers in the United States. Nearly one in three wants to leave, up from 23% in 2005, including about 20% of boomers ages 45-65, the group most likely to approach financial planners.

A number of areas of growing strength in the retail and commercial real estate market point to continued improvement in the U.S. economy, according to a report from real estate research and consulting firm Maximus Advisors.

Allianz Life Insurance on Monday released a new research paper, “Rethinking What’s Ahead in Retirement,” that finds Americans are now more concerned about guarantees and retirement income in retirement than they are on returns and control.

RidgeWorth Investments has added two additional sales executives to the six it recently hired for its newly created retail channel sales team led by Bob Kuberski, with Michael Reynolds and Mitchell Izumi joining the firm.