Investing

Defined contribution plan sponsors can offer meaningful fixed income investment options by using diversification and thoughtful asset managers.

However, a survey found that securities lending needs to evolve in order to integrate investors’ ESG principles with their securities lending programs.

This week has delivered a painful but necessary ‘reality based’ repricing, one expert says.

Experts agree that outsourced chief investment officers take on more duties than 3(38) investment managers.

Few are discussing the impact of inflation with a financial professional or looking for a financial product that can increase their income to help address inflation.

Even as target-date funds evolve, the Department of Labor’s guidance for selecting and monitoring the funds is still relevant.

The goals of plan sponsors and participants will help determine which option is best.

Diversification via alternative investments, especially in times of market volatility and downturns, can lead to better performance,

Industry professionals highlight the importance of implementing environmental, social and governance strategies, and explain how the investments connect to a plan sponsor’s fiduciary duty.

A look at the in-plan, out-of-plan, insured and investment options available.

For their part, participants say they feel the pandemic has make their retirement savings more vulnerable.

Retirement industry experts take a look at collective investment trusts, exchange-traded funds and separate accounts.

Environmental, social and governance investing is slowing becoming pervasive in DC plans, particularly as Millennials are poised to become the majority of the workforce.

A ‘dynamic QDIA’ that starts participants off in TDFs and then moves them to managed accounts is a potential trend for the future.

The challenges facing U.S. and global equity markets at the start of 2020 appear tame compared with present obstacles—a fact clearly demonstrated by assets managers’ updated market outlook...

Asset managers’ mixed outlook on the market reflects the uncertainty and volatility experienced so far this year, though there is more optimism for the rest of 2020 than...

Many find it counterintuitive that the U.S. Federal Reserve would want to push up inflation, but it has some good reasons to do so.

In a speech given Thursday about key policy updates, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the changes reflect the evolution that has occurred in the U.S. and global...