Institutional Plan Sponsors Saw Moderate Gains in Q110
April 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. institutional plan sponsors reported moderate gains for the first quarter of 2010, with a median return of 3.5% for plans in the...
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401(k) Participants Disengaged or Paralyzed with Fear in 2009
April 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report from Hewitt Associates suggests workers were able to recover a significant portion of the losses they sustained in 2008 simply...
Target-Date Funds Extend Performance Winning Streak
April 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – After six consecutive quarters of negative returns the average target maturity fund has now been positive for four straight quarters (second quarter of...
Mutual Fund Fees Remained Steady in 2009
April 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average expense ratios of stock funds and bond funds rose slightly in 2009, but the total fees and expenses paid by investors...
ETFs Enjoy $20M March Inflows
April 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investors plowed $19.7 billion into ETFs in March, helping to push total net inflows for the ETF industry to $7.7 billion for the...
Bond Funds Still Golden in March
April 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. investors poured $47.5 billion into mutual funds in March 2010, bringing total net inflows for the first quarter to $125.2 billion, Morningstar...
ETFs Pull in Nearly $8B in Q110
April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Strategic Insight (SI) said exchange traded funds (ETFs) experienced roughly $7.7 billion of aggregate net inflows during the first quarter of 2010 as...
Fund Flows Pick Up Steam in Q110
April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – During the 12 months since stock markets bottomed in March 2009, worldwide bond and stock mutual fund net inflows eclipsed $1 trillion, about...
Widespread March Gains Reported for ETFs
April 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – State Street Global Advisors’ latest report on the exchange traded fund (ETF) market covering March 2010 activity found that 10 of 12 ETF...
Good, Not-so-Good News in March Unemployment Results
April 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – There was good news - and some not-so-good news - in the March unemployment numbers.
Desperately Seeking NewsDash?
March 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – If you’re looking for your morning dash of NewsDash, you aren’t alone.
ETFs Rebound from Bad Start in 2010
March 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After steep outflows of roughly $16.7 billion in January, exchange-traded funds attracted net inflows of more than $4.6 billion in February, according to...
U.S. Stock Funds Get Snubbed in February
March 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Excluding domestic-stock funds, every other major asset class took in assets in February, according to the Morningstar Direct Fund Flows Update.
Bond Funds Still Winning as Investors Dive Back into Market
March 11 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. mutual fund investors put an estimated $30 billion into stock and bond mutual funds in February, according to Strategic Insight, an Asset...
Transferring Participants Have a Fixed Sense in February
March 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For a change, 401(k) participants who realigned their balances didn’t seem to be tracking the market.
ETFs Fared Well in February
March 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street’s latest ETF Snapshot report reveals assets in the U.S. ETF industry totaled $752 billion as of February 28 – up $21.5...
ETFs Fared Well in February
March 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street’s latest ETF Snapshot report reveals assets in the U.S. ETF industry totaled $752 billion as of February 28 – up $21.5...
Russell Sets Index Reconstitution Schedule
March 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investments has announced the schedule for its annual index reconstitution process, which it says will “capture and reflect the past...
ETFs Continue Growth in 2009
March 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) closed out 2009 with $785 billion in assets, up from roughly $533 billion at the end of 2008, according...
SI Report Sees an Inflection Point for the Mutual Fund Industry
February 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The mutual fund industry gathered $4.2 trillion in net cash flows worldwide in the second half of the decade, according to...