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Market share is up for grabs, but it’s going to be a tough fight. Firms such as Hancock, Legg, ING Annuities and Steadfast Capital Markets Group are gearing up for growth.

The new investment option is considered to be a deposit of the bank and offers FDIC insurance. But some question whether the option will attract investors.

TIAA-Cref says it checks its Facebook and retirement site four times a day, 365 days a year to avoid regulatory issues.

Funds are well on their way toward blocking a provision in House legislation that would give Finra oversight of managers associated with broker-dealers.

They're adding longer-duration instruments amid lower yields and a shortage of high-quality, short-term liquid investments.

Long relegated to the sidelines on important issues, investor advocates say the SEC has given them a platform to examine and challenge proposals that will shape the fund industry.

Ned Shadek, with the firm for 12 years, stepped down earlier this month. No successor will be named.

The Treasury's troubled-asset buyback initiative isn't keeping its promise of including mainstream investors.

Pat Carolan of Endeavour Investment Partners discusses how internal wholesalers can make themselves good candidates for field positions.

Joanne Dowdell, SVP and director of corporate responsibility at Sentinel Financial Services Company, speaks with Ignites managing editor Andrew Greene about the tension that exists between socially responsible versus non-socially responsible funds and how they coexist within the same fund group. [Transcript]

Canadian providers have failed to dodge a provincial tax hike, despite warnings that the move would send business to U.S. rivals.

With demand increasing for guaranteed income products, Ignites’s November Exchange will discuss the future for this segment of the market.