April Sees 2nd Straight Healthy Asset Inflow
May 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond mutual funds experienced net inflows of $33 billion in April, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).
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401(k) Participants Continue Pulling Out of Equities in April
May 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) participants continued shifting their assets from equities to fixed income investments in April, but not with the same aggression as they did...
International Equity Top DC Performer in 1Q07
May 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer Investment Consulting's first-quarter 2007 Defined Contribution Universe Summary showed International Equity outperformed all other equity classes during the quarter.
Emerging, Developed Markets See 2nd Month of Gains
May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Standard & Poor's said Monday that emerging and developed markets ended the month of April in positive territory, their second consecutive month with such...
ETF Assets Up 5% for April
May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The assets in U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) climbed 5% during April, with International and Specialty ETFs making the biggest leap, according to recent...
Retirement Assets in Mutual Funds Edge Up 12% in 2006
May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement assets reached $16.4 trillion at the end of 2006, propelled largely by an increase in individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and DC plans,...
April Job Creation Data Shy of Expectations
May 4¸ 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Hiring activity by U.S. managers was weaker than expected in April as the total of new jobs showed the weakest gain in more...
U.S. Pension Funding Inches Up 1.8% in April
May 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of a typical U.S. pension plan climbed slightly by 1.8% for the month of April, according to the Mellon Pension...
U.S. Pension Funding Inches Up 1.8% in April
May 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of a typical U.S. pension plan climbed slightly by 1.8% for the month of April, according to the Mellon Pension...
Compensation Costs See Slight Rise From Last Quarter
April 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.8% in the December 2006 to March 2007 period - about the same rate as the...
Mutual Fund Flows Fall Off in March
April 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. mutual fund assets climbed 1.5%, or $155.2 billion, to reach $10.7 trillion in March, according to the Investment Company Institute's monthly survey...
Study: Costs Hurt Big Traders More than Small
April 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Money managers who make mega-block trades based on the benefits of the economies of scale may be fooling themselves, a new research paper...
Funds See $36B in March Inflows
April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond mutual funds experienced net inflows of $36.4 billion in March, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).
S&P: Big Improvement in 2006 DB Funding
April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Echoing other similar studies, preliminary results of new Standard & Poor's research show that U.S pension funds produced strong market returns that reduced...
Mid- and Small-Cap Indexes Score Strong on Q107 SPI VA
April 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Indexes led active funds in both the mid- and small-cap categories in the first quarter of 2007, according to the latest Indices Versus...
Institutional Investment Plans Report Modest Growth in Q107
April 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most U.S. institutional investment plan sponsors reported modest gains for the quarter ending March 31, 2007, according to data in the Northern Trust...
S&P: Mid-Cap Equities are Where It Is At
April 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services contended in a new research report that investors would do well to focus on the mid-cap asset...
World Mutual Fund Assets Bump Up 7.6% in Q406
April 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Combined assets of the world's mutual funds increased 7.6%, to $21.76 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2006 and 22.5%...
Morningstar: Hedge Funds Experience 2.10% Gains for Q107
April 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds posted 2.10% returns for the first quarter, outperforming the S&P 500 and the MSCI World Index, according to research from Morningstar,...
March 401(k) Transfers Directed Toward Fixed Income
April 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The name of the game for 401(k) participants in March was fixed income with $572 million transferred from equities to fixed income over...