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July 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Exchange traded fund (ETF) industry assets in the U.S. decreased 0.4% during the first half of 2010, as investors held $772 billion in...

July 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation reported that the median return of the State Street Universe (SSU) of total plans fell 4.4% in the second quarter...

July 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The second quarter of 2010 may have been “challenging,” but the first half of the year actually generated twice the net flows to...

July 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – As global equity markets stumbled during the second quarter, so did returns for target maturity funds, according to Ibbotson Associates.

July 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investors who were skittish over the European sovereign debt crisis and whether the global economy would slide back into recession reversed course in...

July 16, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - June saw flows into bond funds more than doubling from the volumes in May, to $22 billion, according to Strategic Insight (SI), an...

July 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - June marked the fifth consecutive month of inflows for U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs), Morningstar reported.

July 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Flows into U.S. mutual funds reached $13.5 billion in June, according to data from Morningstar.

July 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. investors put $176 billion into stock and bond mutual funds (excluding ETFs) in the first half of 2010, according to Strategic Insight...

July 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street’s latest ETF Snapshot reveals assets in the U.S. exchange traded fund (ETF) industry totaled approximately $772 billion as of June 30...

July 13, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A combination of U.S. stock market declines and lower interest rates in June resulted in the lowest-funded status for the typical U.S. corporate...

July 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American and global depositary receipt (DR) trading volume increased 8.3% to 78.1 billion DRs during the first six months of 2010, according to...

July 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today marks the anniversary of the worst stock market crash ever. 

July 6, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) participants transferred monies from equities into fixed income investments for the second consecutive month in June, according to the results of the...

June 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investments has completed the annual realignment of the Russell Global Index and added 1,190 stocks to the equity benchmark. 

June 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global retirement assets stood at $24 trillion in 2009, up from $21.4 trillion the year before, according to Cerulli’s Quantitative Update: Global Markets...

June 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond funds experienced net outflows of $2.9 billion in May, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

June 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – MSCI has announced that there will be no changes in market classification as part of its 2010 Annual Market Classification Review.

June 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investors pumped in $126 billion to equity/mixed, bond, and other long-term mutual funds in April on a net basis, which marked the third...

June 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Despite what you may have heard about the Tooth Fairy, she’s apparently still trading in cash for cuspids.