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New mutual fund products aim to help investors in the decumulation phase

New products, highlights, announcements

Advisers say sponsors need better eye for target-date funds

The current turmoil threatens broker/dealers as more advisers think about going independent—when the market improves

Investors with advisers show more confidence

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has launched the Morgan Stanley Global Long/Short Fund, a fund of hedge funds.

Standard&Poor’s has launched a family of indices designed to model common arbitrage strategies in the financial markets.

Taking what he calls a “cautiously optimistic view for 2008,″ Bob Doll, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Global Equities at BlackRock, Inc., predicts that the U.S. will narrowly escape an economic recession this year.

Batterymarch Financial Management, a Boston-based institutional equity manager, has launched a U.S. large capitalization value equity portfolio.

When asked what issues would have the most significant impact on businesses in 2008, advisers are most concerned about market performance/volatility (58%), retiring Boomers (54%), and the real estate bubble and credit crunch (tied at 49%).

As the year comes to a close, advisers are planning ahead for 2008 and, according to a recent poll by the SEI Advisor Network, advisers’ New Years resolutions are focused on how client interaction will lead to a successful year.

AIG SunAmerica Retirement Markets, Inc. has introduced the AIG SunAmerica Individual 401(k), including an “income for life” option for millions of eligible self-employed business owners.

WisdomTree Investments, Inc., today launched a new 401(k) plan solution that uses exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as the core investments.

A new Standard and Poor’s study found that money fund managers are concentrating on safety and liquidity and downplaying yield.

Standard&Poor’s said Tuesday the world’s emerging and developed equity markets posted negative returns in August, with emerging markets dropping 1.94% and developed markets giving back 0.36% over the month.

Over half (53%) of pre-retirees indicated they are concerned about outliving their retirement savings, according to the Fidelity Research Institute.

Return-expectations and savings sufficiency can be more efficient benchmarks for target-date funds than are those used currently, according to a new paper from Vanguard Investment Counseling and Research.

More than half (56%) of employees say they are financially worse off this year than they were last year, and 30% say they are one major setback away from disaster.

Nine U.S. equity investment styles posted negative returns in July, with greatest drop coming from SmallCap 600, according to Standard&Poor’s.

Managed money accounts (70%) top advisers’ rankings of investment vehicles “gaining the most favor″ with their clients.