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May 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Mercer investment consulting first-quarter 2010 Defined Contribution Universe Summary found gains in all equity markets, Mercer said.

May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. mutual fund investors have put nearly $200 billion into stock and bond mutual funds so far in 2010, according to Strategic Insight...

May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation announced that the median return of its universe of total plans rose 3.4% in the first quarter of 2010, in...

May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In Towers Watson’s Global Investment Matters publication, the firm asserts that the risk of an equity-focused strategy remains high, especially given ongoing economic...

April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond funds experienced net inflows of $70 billion in March, according to the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

April 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. institutional plan sponsors reported moderate gains for the first quarter of 2010, with a median return of 3.5% for plans in the...

April 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report from Hewitt Associates suggests workers were able to recover a significant portion of the losses they sustained in 2008 simply...

April 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – After six consecutive quarters of negative returns the average target maturity fund has now been positive for four straight quarters (second quarter of...

April 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average expense ratios of stock funds and bond funds rose slightly in 2009, but the total fees and expenses paid by investors...

April 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investors plowed $19.7 billion into ETFs in March, helping to push total net inflows for the ETF industry to $7.7 billion for the...

April 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. investors poured $47.5 billion into mutual funds in March 2010, bringing total net inflows for the first quarter to $125.2 billion, Morningstar...

April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Strategic Insight (SI) said exchange traded funds (ETFs) experienced roughly $7.7 billion of aggregate net inflows during the first quarter of 2010 as...

April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – During the 12 months since stock markets bottomed in March 2009, worldwide bond and stock mutual fund net inflows eclipsed $1 trillion, about...

April 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – State Street Global Advisors’ latest report on the exchange traded fund (ETF) market covering March 2010 activity found that 10 of 12 ETF...

April 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – There was good news - and some not-so-good news - in the March unemployment numbers.

March 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – If you’re looking for your morning dash of NewsDash, you aren’t alone.

March 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After steep outflows of roughly $16.7 billion in January, exchange-traded funds attracted net inflows of more than $4.6 billion in February, according to...

March 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Excluding domestic-stock funds, every other major asset class took in assets in February, according to the Morningstar Direct Fund Flows Update.

March 11 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. mutual fund investors put an estimated $30 billion into stock and bond mutual funds in February, according to Strategic Insight, an Asset...

March 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For a change, 401(k) participants who realigned their balances didn’t seem to be tracking the market.