Tag: Performance

Following the Federal Reserve’s decision this week to hold off at least a little longer on its next rate hike, one Prudential fixed-income leader anticipates a volatile but...

Experts suggest many long-term investors have absorbed central lessons about volatility and trading—especially among more sophisticated segments of the investing population. 

Market volatility, longevity and PBGC premiums are prompting sponsors to take a harder look at funding levels.

Findings from a Northern Trust survey show corporate earnings and U.S. economic growth are among the top concerns of global asset managers—but even with emerging volatility managers are...

More affluent Baby Boomers and current retirees say they have less trouble sticking to a long-term investment strategy to fund their golden years.

They haven’t received quite the same number of comments as the DOL’s pending fiduciary regulations, but proposed liquidity rules from the SEC have clearly grabbed the investment and...

Managing director of AB’s alternatives and multi-asset arm offers helpful reminders amid rocky markets—most notably, that volatility is normal and actually a key source of opportunity.

The defined contribution retirement planning industry always seems to be struggling for balance, observes Josh Cohen, a 20-plus year industry veteran currently running DC business for Russell Investments. 

From the headline-grabbing U.N. climate summit held in Paris to new DOL regulations on environmentally-minded investing by retirement plans, sustainability is clearly on the mind. How are providers...

The index was established as a benchmarking tool for investors in globally-diversified, multi-asset portfolios that include alternative investments, and is the basis for a collective trust used in...

Why do so few DC plans offer stable value funds on the investment menu?

The economy will keep on muddling through; investors will have to jump some hurdles, but Bob Doll says there is still room for optimism.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management predicts the world’s major economies will grind out another year of modest growth in 2016, even as central bank policies diverge.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by one-quarter of a percent, the first raise in nine years.

A new report published by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College offers a historical perspective on retirement plan investment returns by type, dating back to the...

Though most trading days favored fixed income, large U.S. equity funds received the most inflows.

Academics working with the Michigan Retirement Research Center have carefully developed a new retiree spending model showing singles tend to have higher medical spending in retirement vs. their...

Retirement plan participants are slowly but surely gaining better access to lifetime income products, according to new reporting from the Insured Retirement Institute. 

A challenging macro environment and volatility are topics advisers should address with their clients.

Part of what makes universal retirement planning advice hard to apply is that consumption datasets are inherently noisy, and “savings is the flip side of consumption.”