Exchange-traded-fund providers in the coming year will have to focus on making sure financial advisers understand their products — and how to use them in client portfolios — as they anticipate increased scrutiny from regulators and the media, according to participants at an ETF round table last week at <i>InvestmentNews'</i> New York offices.
John Hancock Funds LLC is looking to double the size of the sales team that targets registered investment advisers to 12, according to Keith Hartstein, the company's president and chief executive.
New York Life Insurance Co. has revamped its sales team to make it easier for its wholesalers to sell an array of products to financial advisers — including annuities, mutual funds and guaranteed-income products.
Fidelity Investments, in a move to attract and retain registered investment advisers and independent-broker-dealer clients, has introduced a program it says offers advisers access to market analysis and industry insights.
Caterpillar Inc.'s announcement last week that it has reached a tentative settlement over the fees it charged its 401(k) plan participants may be bad news for plan sponsors, their advisers and mutual fund companies.
John Hancock Funds LLC is looking to double the size of its sales team targeting registered investment advisers to 12, according to Keith Hartstein, the company's president and CEO.
New York Life Insurance Co. has revamped its sales team to make it easier for its wholesalers to sell an array of products to advisers — including annuities, mutual funds and guaranteed income products.
While most investment management companies are reluctant to start firmwide hiring, many are looking to bulk up their compliance departments, according to executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.
Milliman Inc. is in discussions with a number of mutual fund companies, insurers and 401(k) plan sponsors to launch a guaranteed income product that would be backed by a pool of insurers.
More than twice the number of target date funds have liquidated this year than in all of 2008, indicating how difficult it is for asset managers unaffiliated with 401(k) record keepers to build assets in such funds.
