Article: Smith Barney Consulting Group Appoints Placemark Investments as Overlay Manager for New SELECT Portfolios Program; Portfolios Integrate Unaffiliated Managers Chosen by Consulting Group; Offers Sophisticated Tax Management Features.

DALLAS and WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Placemark Investments, the leading overlay manager to financial services companies, is pleased to announce that Smith Barney Consulting Group (CG), the managed account unit of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (NYSE: C), has appointed the firm as the active overlay manager for its new SELECT Portfolios, a multiple-strategy portfolios program that is available now to more than 13,000 Smith Barney Financial Advisors and their clients.

The SELECT Portfolios provide a variety of pre-defined asset classes and investment styles that are sub-advised by unaffiliated investment managers chosen by Smith Barney Consulting Group. The SELECT ...

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