The Markets

Fund manager optimism about the global economy is at its highest level in nearly six years, according to the Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for August.

The savings rate is up, but will it last?

Millions of Fidelity customers invested in two of its target-date funds have voted for a proposal to prevent holdings in investments in companies that substantially contribute to genocide...

The recent market uptick continued to benefit U.S. mutual fund flows in July as investors poured almost $44 billion ($171 billion year to date) into fund offerings, Morningstar...

An investment adviser for a public access television station in Enid, Oklahoma, explained that costs were behind the decision to ditch a 403(b) plan for employees in favor...

Exchange-traded fund (ETF) assets rose $47.4 billion, or 8%, in July, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA).

Following is a summary of mutual fund filing changes complied by Strategic Insight (an Asset International company, and sister firm of PLANADVISER) from recent prospectus filings.

The QVC home shopping network turned away workers at its Rocky Mount, North Carolina, distribution center as part of a probe into whether 401(k) hardship loans they’ve received...

Small, entrepreneurial investment management firms maintained a performance advantage over larger, established firms through last year’s market downturn, according to updated research on emerging investment managers by Northern...

The board of directors for PEGASYS, a public-access television station in Enid, Oklahoma, has approved a change in employee retirement plans.

A new Cerulli report says institutional ownership of mutual funds totaled $4.3 trillion at year-end 2008, a decline of 12.3% from prior year totals.

Starbucks announced to its U.S. employees that it will make the company discretionary match to the Future Roast 401(k) Savings Plan for the 2009 plan year.

Kane County (Utah) Hospital employees whose 401(k) retirement plan accounts have been frozen by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are threatening to sue the hospital.

As the sale of leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) comes under scrutiny from regulators, Edward Jones & Co. is nixing the sale of the products.

Stock and bond funds experienced net inflows of $41.6 billion in June, according to the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

Testifying before the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, James King, Jr., vice president and head of Prudential Retirement’s Stable Value Markets Group, urged that stable value...

U.S. ETF asset flows were marked by a continued shift away from large cap and developed international equities during the first half of the year and into emerging...

The number of federal securities class action cases filed in the first six months of 2009 dropped by 22.3% over a year earlier, according to the latest data...

401(k) participants continued their search for higher returns in June by moving almost $270 million out of fixed-income into a range of equity offerings, according to the latest...

Investment managers expect corporate earnings to increase in the next three months, and a majority expect global GDP growth to accelerate in the next six months, according to...