Products | August 12th, 2015 TIAA-CREF Launches New Funds The company launched a short-term bond index fund and expanded its suite of responsible investment funds.
Products | August 3rd, 2015 Goldman Sachs Unveils Retirement Share Class R6 shares offer retirement investors a lower expense ratio than current institutional share classes from Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Investing | July 20th, 2015 International Equity Tops Fund Flows in June International equity offerings attracted nearly $25 million for the month.
Data and Research | June 16th, 2015 GAO Finds Overactive Participant Trading Is Rare Retirement plan participants seldom engage in too-frequent or inappropriately coordinated trading.
Investing | June 8th, 2015 Affiliated Funds Bias Affects Participants’ Accounts Researchers investigated whether mutual fund families acting as service providers in 401(k) plans display favoritism toward their own affiliated funds.
Investing | May 19th, 2015 Investors Turn Away from U.S. Equity in April U.S. equity outflows were seen in both active mutual funds and index ETFs.
Investing | May 1st, 2015 Will Concentration and Governance Issues Challenge Indexing Trend? Investment advisory predicts key foundational issues could slow indexing trend among institutional investors and retirement plans.
Investing | April 27th, 2015 International Equity Remains a Top Draw to Investors Net new investments in stock and bond funds totaled $49.4 billion in March, according to investment research and analytics provider...
Investing | April 24th, 2015 Morningstar Shows Lowest Cost Funds Dominate Flows The last decade saw an impressive 95% of investment fund flows go to the lowest-cost quintile, according to a new...
Investing | April 7th, 2015 Plan Sponsors Look to Change Investment Lineup Four new asset managers have made it to the plan sponsors’ top 10 list
Investing | April 7th, 2015 Diverse TDFs Brought Diverse Returns in 2014 New Morningstar research shows what you expect is not always what you get with target-date funds.
Data and Research | March 25th, 2015 ICI Measures Retirement Assets at $24.7 Trillion Total U.S. retirement assets grew 6% during 2014, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Investing | March 13th, 2015 Investors Favored International Equity in February Equity products saw inflows of $32 billion.
Investing | February 17th, 2015 Investors Prefer Passive Equity Strategies in January In total, U.S. Equity funds saw outflows in January.
Investing | January 16th, 2015 Fund Flows Flat for December, $402B for Year Equities captured the majority of fund inflows in 2014.
Products | January 14th, 2015 PNC Unveils ‘Zero Revenue’ Mutual Fund Platform PNC Retirement Solutions released a zero revenue sharing mutual fund platform for defined contribution retirement plans.
Products | January 6th, 2015 Schroders Introduces R6 Share Class Asset management company Schroders introduced an R6 share class across 10 of its mutual funds and is making adjustments to...
Compliance | January 5th, 2015 District Court Moves Forward Boeing Fee Case A federal district court has denied Boeing’s request for summary judgment on the merits of Spano vs. The Boeing Company,...
Products | December 23rd, 2014 A TDF Glide Path Checklist Target-date funds are the default of choice for many plan sponsors, says Russell Investments, but they aren't a buy-it-and-forget-it solution...
Products | December 16th, 2014 CLS Upgrades Open-Architecture Plan Platform CLS Investments, an investment adviser in Omaha, has upgraded its (k)Star program.