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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.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc., the second-largest U.S. regional bank, faces the same decision on its 21 percent stake in BlackRock Inc. that confronts many individual investors: sell or hold?

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.

RCAP CEO Nick Schorsch says the deal could be a "tipping point" in a new wave of private equity investment in independent broker-dealers.

Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman said his firm’s wealth-management unit can earn a pretax margin of more than 23 percent by 2015 as interest rates and stock markets climb.

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.

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

During the week ended June 5, investors yanked an estimated $11.53 billion from virtually all categories of long-term funds, giving them their first weekly outflow this year.

A difficult May in the municipal bond market has put investors on the defensive.

As more banks look to equip their branch employees to handle all of their customers' needs, experts offer tips on how to ease the transition.

Morgan Stanley has a plan to boost return on equity in fixed-income trading above its cost of equity after four of the five units failed to meet that metric last year, Chief Executive Officer James Gorman said.

Most emerging-market stocks fell as Brazil’s Ibovespa sank a day after entering a bear market, while investors weighed prospects for global stimulus measures.

Though they face similar challenges in preparing for their financial futures, men and women think about and respond to them in divergent ways, according to research released Wednesday as part of Northwestern Mutual’s ongoing 2013 Planning and Progress Study.

A new Portland, Ore.-based investment shop has bagged its first sub-advisory mandate courtesy of its affiliate.

Investors redeemed $11.53 billion from mutual funds for the week ended Wednesday, June 5, according to the Investment Company Institute.

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