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Paper manufacturer Appleton has selected Northern Trust Global Advisors to manage its $195 million in defined benefit plan. NTGA will serve as a manager-of managers in Appleton's attempt to make [...]

International Paper is expected to review at least one of its emerging markets managers once it has wrapped up a review of its international equity portfolio. Bob Hunkeler, v.p., investments [...]

The Vanguard Group, American Skandia Life Assurance and Delaware Investments are among a number of asset managers increasing the number of white papers they pen for advisors and investors. In [...]

Canaccord is trying to eliminate paper processing in the creation of new accounts by allowing salespeople at an investment advisor to have access to electronic forms, even when they, are [...]

* Unilever has become the first corporate issuer to actively make use of the euro commercial paper market to issue one-day-maturity securities. Currently, Euroclear is the only securities service provider [...]

Asset retention and growing deeper relationships with clients is more cost effective than focusing on acquiring new ones, according to a recent paper published by Practical Perspectives, a Boxford, Mass.-based [...]

GE Private Asset Management (GEPAM) has penned a position paper on its newly launched managed account program with a $50,000 minimum. The Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based asset manager plans to send [...]

A group of high yield paper and forest products companies are expected to tap the market to refinance close to $2 billion in high-yield bonds over the next year, according [...]

Lee Smith, v.p. and director of trading at Cozad Asset Management, a Champaign, Ill.-based firm with about $425 million in assets under management, is transitioning his investments back into the [...]

Corporate Plan Sponsor of the Year Bob Hunkeler, v.p.-investments, International Paper Co. International Paper Co.'s $6.5 billion defined benefit pension plan underwent a complete restructuring of its $1.2 billion international [...]

Citigroup launched an amendment last Wednesday to loosen the leverage covenants on Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s term loans through 2010. Citigroup launched an amendment last Wednesday to loosen the leverage covenants on [...]

Goldman Sachs and UBS are leading the bank financing for Cerberus Capital Management's $2.3 billion acquisition of NewPage Corp. NewPage is the printing and writing papers business of MeadWestvaco Corp. [...]

Last Wednesday a judge signed an order approving Lehman Brothers' decision regarding the assumption or rejection of open trades. Last Wednesday a judge signed an order approving Lehman Brothers' decision [...]

Milwaukee, Wis.-based MGIC Investment, a mortgage insurer with a market capitalization of $5.2 billion, recently sold $200 million in five-year senior notes (A/A1) to pay off short-term commercial paper due [...]

Glatfelter Co. has expanded its lender group to include more international banks as it seeks to become a global supplier of specialty papers and engineered products. HSBC, Citigroup and ABN [...]

Commonwealth Edison, one of two utilities owned by Chicago's Exelon Corp., plans to use the proceeds from a $300 million, 10-year mortgage bond offering to help pay down $339 million [...]

* American Tissue sued units of Credit Suisse Group for $1.3 billion in a creditor-funded lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New [...]

Canaccord is scheduling a pilot test of a system designed to automate account set-up and eliminate paper processing. 'Any dents a firm can make to reduce the paper flow are [...]

Unsecured bondholders led by Pacific Investment Management Co. and Capital Research and Management Co. are alleging Lehman Brothers Commercial Paper Inc. did not fully execute liens on the bankrupt Hawaiian [...]

Fidelity Investments has introduced a feature to enable shareholders to view and print their statements online, eliminating the need for paper documents to be sent through the mail. The new [...]

Fidelity Investments has introduced a feature to allow shareholders to view and print their statements online, eliminating the need for paper documents to be sent through the mail. The new [...]

At its board meeting this month, the board of the AIM Funds will be using on-line board books instead of paper ones. 'It makes a lot of sense for about [...]

Financial issuers of preferred securities have found a way to get greater equity credit from the paper. AmerUs, Axis Capital Holdings and Endurance Specialty Holdings recently included binding agreements pledging [...]

Seizing on an attractive market for three-year paper from A-rated corporate issuers, CIT Group, a Livingston, NJ-based commercial finance company, recently issued a $500 million two-part offering of three-year notes, [...]

Edgar Larson, chief investment officer at AIM Investments, and former sales executive Michael Cemo approved arrangements that allowed improper rapid trading of mutual funds, according to papers filed by the [...]

Edgar Larson, chief investment officer at AIM Investments, and former sales executive Michael Cemo approved arrangements that allowed improper rapid trading of mutual funds, according to papers filed by the [...]