The Markets

Annuity assets will grow to $2.9 trillion by 2012, fueled by demographic and product trends, a recent study by Cerulli Associates says.

The Financial Research Corporation (FRC), a source for information on asset inflows and outflows to mutual fund companies, said it will stop disclosing net sales information to the...

Although stagflation fears are gripping investors, inflation concerns are fast overtaking worries about economic growth, according to Merrill Lynch’s Survey of Fund Managers for May.

Americans held $17.6 trillion in retirement assets at the end of 2007, up $1.1 trillion from year-end 2006, according to a report from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

You can file this one under “people with way too much time on their hands.″

Strong returns in April helped world equity markets bounce back from a bad start in 2008, according to data from Standard&Poor’s.

Of the 50.6 million U.S. households – 43.6% of total households – that own mutual funds, almost half (49%) consider employer-sponsored retirement plans to be their primary source...

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.