The Markets

The 2019 PLANSPONSOR Target-Date Fund (TDF) Buyer’s Guide breaks down the custom TDF market by provider, series name, glide path landing point, number of funds per series, and...

The retirement plan industry is flush with data points and analyses. In this edition of Data Mine, we have dug...

Sponsors are beginning to be willing to adapt their plans to accommodate retirees' lifetime income needs.

Managed accounts, target-date funds, hybrid funds and risk-based models are all prevalent in today’s defined contribution retirement plan marketplace.

“We’ve heard the need for these investment options in 403(b) plans from advisers, consultants and plan sponsors for decades,” says Bruce Corcoran, managing vice president/head of 403(b) Business...

August brought six above-normal trading days, the highest monthly total since a previous bout of equity market volatility in December 2018.

Investors cite several common considerations for including a dedicated allocation to real estate, and a recent survey of American investors found real estate ranked as the top investment...

Experts suggest the uncertain U.S.-China trade situation has weighed heavily on business investment, resulting in weaker manufacturing activity worldwide.

Investment experts remind retirement investors that international investments can help to diversify a portfolio

Participants who mix target-date funds (TDFs) with other investments appear to be more sophisticated, but "it can diminish (or eliminate) the target-date fund’s potential benefit,” says David Blanchett,...

This should be a focus when looking at target-date funds (TDFs) often used as the default investment in employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) plans.

While they have grown at a compound annual growth rate of 7.25% a year in the past five years, if advisers were better educated about them and if...

A litigation firm has listed what it is investigating for potential lawsuits over target-date funds (TDFs) in retirement plans.

Brexit uncertainty. An inverted yield curve. A burgeoning trade dispute between the U.S. and China. Slowing global growth and shifting currency valuations. Is it all enough to spark...

Plan advisers can help 403(b) plan sponsors looking for downside protection, active strategies and target-date funds (TDFs) that can be used as a decumulation vehicle in retirement.

It was also the 18th month in a row that net trades have moved from equities into fixed income

Among the remarkable characteristics of today’s global fixed-income marketplace is the $15 trillion invested in negatively yielding bonds.