The Business Cycle, Geopolitics and Retirement Investing
Interest Rate Risk a Growing Concern for Boomers
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.
A New Normal? Time To Recheck Interest Rate Assumptions
Among the remarkable characteristics of today’s global fixed-income marketplace is the $15 trillion invested in negatively yielding bonds.
Stable Value and Rising Interest Rates
Institutional Investors Expect the Bull Market Will End in 2019
They also foresee continued volatility in the stock market, but are turning to active management and alternative strategies to mitigate its risk.
How Rising Interest Rates Affect Stable Value Funds
Goldman Sachs Sees Stars Aligning for Pension PRT
Clients with defined benefit plans that are currently enjoying a bump in funded status may want to act soon to lock in those gains while market conditions remain favorable.
Short-Term Rate Hikes Sting, But Long-Term Investors Can Benefit
Vanguard’s chief economist warns that rising rates may sting in the short term, but book value losses should be offset by higher future returns—rewarding those with perspective and strategic patience.
HNW Investors Pay Close Attention to Inflation as They Prepare for Retirement
Sixty-eight percent say they pay close attention to inflation as they prepare for retirement.
Not All Fixed Income Vehicles Act the Same in Rising Interest Rate Environment
“By providing a more diversified set of fixed income options, plan sponsors can help participants be better equipped to weather any challenging market environment, such as the rising rate environment we are in right now,” a Insights article from Cammack Retirement concludes.