The Markets

GenCorp Inc. is reinstating the employer match feature for the 401(k) plan for non-union employees.

Money managers aren't as bullish on the equity markets now as they were at year-end, according to a new survey. 

Investors have recovered their bullishness towards equity markets, but are shifting their focus away from Europe and into the U.S. and Japan, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch...

After steep outflows of roughly $16.7 billion in January, exchange-traded funds attracted net inflows of more than $4.6 billion in February, according to the Morningstar Direct Fund Flows...

Excluding domestic-stock funds, every other major asset class took in assets in February, according to the Morningstar Direct Fund Flows Update.

Morningstar's 2010 Target-Date Series Industry Survey finds target-date funds are performing well and becoming increasingly popular, but there is still room for improvement.

Despite a proliferation of retirement income products and financial services firms’ best efforts to capture the retirement income market, no single leader has emerged in this space, according...

U.S. mutual fund investors put an estimated $30 billion into stock and bond mutual funds in February, according to Strategic Insight (SI), an Asset International Company.

Throughout much of the 2009 market rally, activity as measured by fund flows within the Callan DC Index, was above average as participants sought to increase their exposure...

For a change, 401(k) participants who realigned their balances didn’t seem to be tracking the market.

State Street’s latest ETF Snapshot report reveals assets in the U.S. exchange-traded-fund (ETF) industry totaled $752 billion as of February 28—up $21.5 billion or 2.9% during the month.

Most mutual fund investors did not abandon stocks during the market decline of 2008 to 2009, but, unlike previous recoveries, have not shown considerable interest in adding to...

In February, registered investment advisers’ (RIA) confidence in the economy and stock market was down 2% from January, according to Rydex|SGI AdvisorBenchmarking.

More investors are focused on growing their retirement savings rather than protecting it, according to a survey by Charles Schwab & Co.

A new report from Morningstar warns those who flocked to bond funds in 2009 that even those investments aren't immune to volatility.

U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) closed out 2009 with $785 billion in assets, up from roughly $533 billion at the end of 2008, according to Morningstar Fund Flows and...

The mutual fund industry gathered $4.2 trillion in net cash flows worldwide in the second half of the decade, according to a new report from Strategic Insight (SI),...

In examining the performance of its suite of target-date funds during the previous two years, Schwab found many funds outperformed the overall market and recovered nearly all losses.

Equity/mixed, bond, and other long-term mutual funds around the world captured $900 billion in net flows during 2009, according to Strategic Insight (SI), an Asset International company.

The latest BofA Merrill Lynch survey found that fund managers are retreating into cash as skepticism rises over economic recovery in Europe and China.