I’ve long had an issue with weight scales, for the perhaps obvious reason that, these days, they frequently deliver a message I’d just as soon not receive.
A new report finds that while many participants aren’t yet on track to meet their retirement savings goals, a combination of plan design changes and...
In a new study, “Rethinking Lifecycle Funds,” Financial Research Corporation (FRC) says that although target-date funds are being marketed as a total retirement solution, the reality is that...
Fund manager AllianceBernstein has newly registered six global asset allocation funds, according to Simfund Filing, a product of Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.
The head of the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) said today that the agency plans to release its long-awaited regulation dealing with providers’ fee disclosure...
Retirement plan participants invested in target-date funds along with other funds offered by the plan could end up with a potentially inferior portfolio in terms of risk/return tradeoff,...
Investors deposited a record $50 billion on a net basis into bond funds in September, bringing year-to-date bond fund flow volumes to $290 billion, according to Strategic Insight...
A new report predicts that rapid growth will restructure the asset allocation and packaging of target-date products and that target-date and target-risk retirement vehicles will attract 80% of...
As I was listening to, and participating in, panels at our Future of Asset Allocated Funds conference in California this past week, I was struck again...
Asset-allocation fund solutions have, to put it mildly, exploded on the retirement plan scene—aided in no small measure by the sanction of the Department of Labor’s final regulations...