Deals and People

March 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - OppenheimerFunds has combined all segments of OppenheimerFunds' retail retirement businesses into one unit and appointed Kathleen Beichert to lead it.

March 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CAPTRUST Financial Advisors has reached out in another direction for its second big acquisition of 2009.

March 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Matthew H. Scanlan has joined Renaissance Technologies LLC as Renaissance Institutional Management LLC's President and CEO, the New York firm announced.

March 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Financial Inc. has named Clifford Axelson, a former senior vice president for Callan Associates, a managing director for its Strategic Solutions Group.

March 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has accepted President Obama's request to become his secretary of health and human services.

February 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SWIFT, a financial messaging provider, has announced the appointment of Patrick Curtin as Head of Securities Initiatives - Americas.

February 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates clients will soon see a familiar face with word Thursday that Ari Jacobs has rejoined the company as the North American...

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robert J. Callanan, Jr. has been named a Managing Director at UBS.

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - TIAA-CREF announced the appointment of Brandon Becker as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer.

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation has a new Secretary of Labor.

February 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has tapped John Longley as the new Head of National Accounts for the U.S. iShares Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)...

February 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments has tapped David Glancy, 47, as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, the company announced.

February 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Management consulting firm EquaTerra has announced that Howard Weizmann, former deputy director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), has joined EquaTerra...

February 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments says that Anthony W. Ryan has been named the firm's new head of Asset Management Strategy and Product Development, effective February...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan Funds has named Jeffrey Chase as head of Southeast regional sales in the defined contribution investment only business, the company announced.

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ProFunds Group, which touts itself as the world's largest manager of short and leveraged funds, says that Joanne M. Hill has joined the...

February 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment management firm Eaton Vance Corp. has announced that Niall Michael Quinn has joined the firm as Managing Director of Eaton Vance Management...

February 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Life Retirement Plan Services, a division of New York Life Investments, has appointed Deanna Garen managing director of participant strategy.

February 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (RPS) has increased its sales support by adding eight regional vice presidents and a new internal sales desk...

February 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A closed session of the U.S. Senate committee to consider the pending confirmation of U.S. Representative Hilda Solis (D-California) as Department of Labor...