Tag: Benchmarks/Performance

June 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – There is something of a contradiction at the heart of many prepackaged target-date fund (TDF)...

June 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Defined contribution (DC) plan participants bucked the stock market adage of “sell in May and...

June 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Defined contribution plan sponsors tend to offer far more investment fund options than the number...

June 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sage Advisory Services, an Austin, Texas-based asset manager, released a liability-driven investing (LDI) solution tailored...

June 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Global asset manager Russell Investments announced the annual realignment of its global equity indexes to...

June 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The stable value market has changed significantly post financial crisis, says Josh Kruk, head of...

June 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Dallas Salisbury fields a lot of questions about how to define retirement plan success in...

May 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Institutional retirement plan sponsors benefited from continued gains in domestic equity and fixed income during...

May 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) — A recent analysis from Gerstein Fisher challenges the notion that mutual fund managers don't have...

May 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Endowment Wealth Management, Inc. and ETF Model Solutions, LLC have partnered to launch the Endowment...

May 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The median return of the BNY Mellon U.S. Master Trust Universe was 1.94% for the...

May 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Aon Hewitt’s 401(k) Index shows April was another light trading month for defined contribution (DC)...

May 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Simply measuring the average participant’s retirement savings shortfall will not help employers improve plan outcomes,...

May 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Small plans underperformed large plans for the first quarter of 2014 which pulled the median...

May 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Invesco PowerShares Capital Management has launched the PowerShares Variable Rate Preferred Portfolio (VRP).

April 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – More Americans realize they aren’t on track to meet retirement income needs, according to Northwestern...

April 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New analysis from Fidelity Investments shows the average balance of its client’s 401(k) accounts reached...

April 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new analysis from Putnam Investments, reviewing years of income replacement projection data, finds many...

April 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors can use active share to help them stay on top of three important...

April 15, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Strong global equity market performance and higher liability discount rates worked wonders on the funded...