The Markets

A majority of Americans have a false perception of how stock market investments fared last year, and are still uneasy about investing in stocks, according to a new...

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

Franklin Templeton Investments and the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) have announced additional investment options for the Franklin Templeton 529 College Savings Plan.

For the first time since Cogent Research has been tracking investor allocations, it says wealthy Americans now hold more assets in individual retirement accounts (IRAs) than in workplace-based...

The average expense ratios of stock and bond funds rose slightly in 2009, but the total fees and expenses paid by investors remain largely unchanged on an asset-weighted...

After six consecutive quarters of negative returns, the average target-maturity fund has now been positive for four straight quarters, according to Morningstar.

U.S. investors poured $47.5 billion into mutual funds in March, bringing total net inflows for the first quarter to $125.2 billion, Morningstar reported.

Investors plowed $19.7 billion into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in March, helping to push total net inflows for the ETF industry to $7.7 billion for the first quarter of...

During the 12 months since stock markets bottomed in March 2009, worldwide bond and stock mutual fund net inflows eclipsed $1 trillion, about half of which was garnered...

Strategic Insight (SI) said exchange-traded funds (ETFs) experienced roughly $7.7 billion of aggregate net inflows during the first quarter of 2010.

A new Vanguard study reports a significant increase in the use of target-date funds in retirement plans.

Fund managers are taking on more risk in anticipation of a “Goldilocks” recovery in the economy, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for April.

State Street Global Advisors’ latest report on the exchange-traded fund (ETF) market covering March activity found that 10 of 12 ETF categories gained in absolute terms.

GenCorp Inc. is reinstating the employer match feature for the 401(k) plan for non-union employees.

Money managers aren't as bullish on the equity markets now as they were at year-end, according to a new survey. 

Investors have recovered their bullishness towards equity markets, but are shifting their focus away from Europe and into the U.S. and Japan, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch...

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 the Morningstar Direct Fund Flows...

Excluding domestic-stock funds, every other major asset class took in assets in February, according to the Morningstar Direct Fund Flows Update.

Morningstar's 2010 Target-Date Series Industry Survey finds target-date funds are performing well and becoming increasingly popular, but there is still room for improvement.

Despite a proliferation of retirement income products and financial services firms’ best efforts to capture the retirement income market, no single leader has emerged in this space, according...