Tag: Investing

The investment firm is developing its DCIO consulting team.

Though institutional investors expect a tail risk event, they lack the risk management strategies needed to prepare.

More defined contribution plan participants made trades last month, according to Aon Hewitt.

Liability-driven investing is still the game for many defined benefit plans, and equity investments can still play a role.

An analysis from Aon Hewitt suggests there’s an opportunity for retirement plan participants to be more proactively involved with their accounts and improve long-term savings.

April was another light trading month for participants in defined contribution (DC) plans, the Aon Hewitt 401(k) Index reveals.

Qualitative risk tolerance assessments are ambiguous and unhelpful to investors, says a new white paper.

Investors say central clearing has reduced systemic risk in the derivatives market, and there is an increasing interest in futures.

Two-thirds of Americans surveyed have seen their long-term life and retirement plans disrupted at one point or another, TD Ameritrade says in a new report.

Financial research and benchmarking provider CEM Benchmarking says its most recent report contains enough data to prove active investing is worthwhile for pension funds, if executed efficiently and...

Aon Hewitt’s 401(k) Index shows there were five days of above-normal trading activity in the month of January 2015–more days than the previous two months combined.

A majority of high-income women feel comfortable taking risk in investments, feel fairly knowledgeable about financial products and possess advanced degrees, according to Spectrem Group.

Many older Americans are taking on debt at a time when they should be focused on savings and retirement investments, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Baby Boomers will be pleased to know that cognitive aging does not necessarily hamper financial decision-making, a study says.

Just 0.022% of total defined contribution (DC) plan assets traded in December 2014, with a slight majority of days (55%) favoring equities over fixed-income assets, Aon Hewitt data...

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted several sets of rules and proposed others related to data collection and reporting for security-based swap data repositories.

Recent research supports the argument against investors reacting to every market turn and for solutions that...

Target-date funds are expected to capture almost 90% of 401(k) contributions by 2019.

Vincent Vicidomini has joined the investment strategies division of Mesirow Financial as vice president of sales consulting for the eastern region.

They are saving more; they credit the stock market with much of their wealth; and some (29%) still worry about running out of money in retirement.