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A survey said 87% of investors have a high degree of trust in their adviser, but a majority are dissatisfied with the fund industry.

A new research paper suggests a potential tie between biology and (apparently) irrational exuberance.

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.

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.

Renowned bond manager PIMCO has launched a target-date solution that the firm says “…differ from many older and less diversified types of target date funds.”

Affluent active savers are much more optimistic about their ability to reach their financial goals and their control level towards their finances than they are about the state...

The assets owned by high net worth individuals (HNWI) reached $50 trillion in 2007, according to a study of the global private banking and wealth management market by...

SEI has launched the SEI Advisor Resource Center (ARC), a Web-based marketing system for the SEI Advisor Network's more than 6,500 independent adviser clients.

The equities markets may be on a long-term fritz, but that hasn’t stopped fund investors from taking stock positions in their portfolios, according to new Strategic Insight data.

Many employers who have followed the trend of moving from defined benefit to defined contribution retirement benefits have also beefed up their DC offering, but it is still...

Target-date mutual funds, also called lifecycle funds, are exploding in popularity.

Claymore Securities, Inc. has announced that eight of its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are included as underlying investments in the Fiserv Trust Target Date Blueprint Funds.

Today, Natixis Global Asset Management announced its acquisition of Cincinnati-based investment manager Gateway Investment Advisers.

MFS Investment Management has launched the MFS Diversified Target Return Fund.

MFS Investment Management has launched the MFS Diversified Target Return Fund.

If you’ve been asked in the past two weeks what to do about the market (and who hasn’t), I’m sure your response has been something along the lines...