The Markets

One Pensacola public pension fund has filed suit and a second is considering going to court over allegations Merrill Lynch is responsible for what the funds claim are...

The West Penn Allegheny Health System is temporarily suspending its match contribution to employee 403(b) accounts.

The United Way for Southeastern Michigan has cut management and staff compensation and suspended its 403(b) retirement plan match for a year.

JPMorgan Chase&Co. said it will stop matching 401(k) contributions for its roughly 200,000 workers worldwide, the Dayton Business Journal reports.

TIAA-CREF said it plans to intensify pressure on target companies that maintain business relations with the Sudanese government, and will divest from companies that fail to take meaningful...

Russell Investments found professional money managers were more bullish for fixed-income asset classes than equities for the first time in its survey’s five-year history.

Let’s see how Bernard Madoff stacks up against Charles Ponzi himself.

Stock and bond funds experienced net outflows of $18.1 billion in February, reversing a $22.2-billion January inflow, according to the Financial Research Corporation.

The Newark Star-Ledger is stopping contributions to its employee pension plan and increasing its match to the 401(k) plan.

Infrastructure is poised for growth as an investment opportunity, according to a panel hosted by Dow Jones Indexes.

Advisers continue to stick with the basics, using dividend-paying stocks or mutual funds and systematic withdrawals from mutual funds to fund their clients’ retirement income, according to Cerulli...

The Principal Financial Group Principal Financial Group Inc. said Friday it was suspending several employee benefits, including tuition reimbursement, anniversary gifts and employee recognition programs, as part of...

To cope with effects from the economy, Xerox said it is taking steps that will save it as much as $300 million this year, according to MarketWatch.

While still shying away from equities, investors are at their most optimistic about the global economy since December 2005, according to the latest Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund...

Total U.S. retirement market assets, including both defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) plans, tumbled 24% to $7.86 trillion in 2008, down from $10.3 trillion the prior...

AMCORE Financial is eliminating its cash contribution to retirement plans of all employees, but continuing to match 401(k) contributions up to a maximum 4%.

Casa Grande Regional Medical Center in Arizona has halted matching contributions to employees’ 403(b) plan.

Self-directed investors are more likely to allocate more of their portfolios to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) than adviser-directed investors.

The Callan DC Index declined 15.5% in the fourth quarter for a total loss of more than 28% for the year.

U.S. investors started off 2009 continuing their contributions to mutual funds—particularly into money-market funds, according to Strategic Insight.