The Markets

Total U.S. retirement assets climbed to $17.8 trillion as of September 30, 2007, up from $17.5 trillion on June 30, 2007, according to a quarterly data series from...

Not only are a quarter of adults dipping into their retirement savings, but many of them cannot pay it back.

A new research paper suggests a potential tie between biology and (apparently) irrational exuberance.

Financial Engines says that most plan participants who are automatically enrolled into the firm's managed account program stay with it.

Participants moved assets from equities to fixed-income investments during 80% of the trading days in March, according to the Hewitt 401(k) Index.

Albert Einstein might have been thinking about target-date funds when he said that everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

Net cash flow to mutual funds worldwide was $383 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007, with both long-term funds and money market funds experiencing aggregate net inflows,...

Standard&Poor's has launched three new benchmark and investable indices designed to provide investors with access to Africa's developing equity markets, as well as being a measurement tool for...

MSCI Barra has launched the MSCI Global Minimum Volatility Indices, a new global benchmark offering for managed volatility investment strategies.

The world’s emerging and developed equity markets lost 10.56% and 8.95%, respectively, during the first three months of the year, according to Standard&Poor’s.

Morningstar has launched a new institutional research platform focused on alternative investments.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an Internet Web page allowing investors to more easily compare fund cost, risk, and past performance information provided by mutual...

Citing months of poor performance, Goldman Sachs announced it has stopped offering an investment account that AQR Capital Management created for the bank's 401(k) lineup.

Mostly due to gains in the financial markets, total retirement plan assets reached $15.6 trillion in 2007 - an increase of almost 9% over 2006 – according to...

Exchange-traded fund assets declined in February, but have nonetheless increased 29.1% over the past year.

A whitepaper presented by AST Capital Trust with contributions from Hewitt Associates claims the grip is easing on mutual funds’ reign as king of 401(k) plans investments.

The combined assets of U.S. mutual funds increased by $14.37 billion, or 0.1%, to $11.742 trillion in February, according to data from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

Almost 60% of retirement plan participants responding to a recent survey said they have an asset-allocation investment option in their plan.

Merrill Lynch Global Research has introduced a new global emissions benchmark designed to provide investors with a “clear and balanced insight into the rapidly growing global CO2 emissions...

The FTSE Group and Conflict Securities Advisory Group (CSAG), a research provider in terror-free investment screening and certification services, have launched the FTSE CSAG Terror-Free Index Series.