Deals and People

March 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dreyfus Corp, a unit of Mellon Financial Corp, has tapped Paul Pantalena as its new head of equity trading.

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mark Smith has been dubbed the new managing director of fixed income for Loomis, Sayles & Company, LP.

March 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pentegra Group has tapped CIGNA's former Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development Kenneth Montgomery to be the firm's new Chief Executive...

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has tapped James Aramanda to head the Human Resources Services area, which includes Buck Consultants, Mellon HR Solutions and Mellon...

March 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BlackRock fired a half dozen fund managers last week, after the asset manager's large cap stock funds lost three-quarters of their assets in...

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management has handed the reins of its global equities division to Martin Porter.

February 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tom Galvin, the former chief US market strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston, has been named president and chief investment officer of US...

February 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund-of-funds investment manager Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) has expanded its senior management team with a number of recent hires.

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Effective immediately, Cooper Consultants is closing its doors to new clients, according to Jennifer Cooper, principal and founder of the firm.

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has tapped a new head of its US Active Fixed Income Research unit.

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bonnie Benhayon has been named as the new head of business services for the institutional investment area of Banc of America Capital Management...

February 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund has named Christopher Gonzales as its new chief investment officer.

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Bjorkman, formerly a member of the Florida Investment Advisory Council, has taken a position with a large-cap equity investment firm.

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Directors of the Charles Schwab Corp. have tapped David Pottruck as the investment company's sole president and chief executive officer.

January 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - OppenheimerFunds Inc., one of the nation's oldest mutual fund families, has tapped Kurt Wolfgruber as its chief investment officer.

January 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial has expanded its strategic human resource offerings with the addition of Patricia A. Milligan as executive director of Strategy and Business...

January 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Watson Wyatt is beefing up its Group and Health Care practice with the addition of Shelly Wolff as the firm's National Leader of...

January 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley's chief market strategist is retiring after 30 years with the bank to help run a hedge fund portfolio, Morgan Stanley announced.

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Desmond MacIntyre, Deutsche Bank's European pension strategist, will become chief investment officer for New York City Comptroller William Thompson.

January 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eugene Scalia, acting solicitor of the US Department of Labor (DoL), will step down from his post, the DoL announced.