Tag: Benchmarks/Performance

August 14, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investors added $15.9 billion to long-term mutual funds in July, driven by inflows of $7.9...

August 14, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The median return of the BNY Mellon U.S. Master Trust Universe for the second quarter...

August 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Target-date funds lost 0.6% during the quarter, according to the Ibbotson Quarterly Target-Date Fund Report.

August 6, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Institutional investors posted mixed returns in Q213, according to the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service...

August 5, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – BlackRock is offering a suite of indexes, calculators and assessment tools to help preretirees meet...

July 16, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) reported a 12.5% return on investments for the 12...

July 15, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Defined contribution (DC) plan participants’ daily transfer volumes remained steady in June, according to the...

July 10, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Exchange-traded fund (ETF) assets decreased by $59.7 billion, or 4%, in June.

June 26, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. and FactSet Research Systems Inc. announced that FactSet clients will...

June 11, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Barclays and MSCI Inc. launched a global family of environmental, social and governance (ESG) fixed-income...

May 22, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investment returns in defined benefit (DB) retirement plans outperformed those in defined contribution (DC) plans...

February 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Data gathered from 831 U.S. colleges and...

February 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Target maturity funds continue to see total...

January 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Russell Indexes introduced the Russell High Efficiency Defensive Indexes,...

November 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly all institutional plans showed positive returns for the third quarter, while 12-month returns hit...

November 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For the third quarter of 2012, the Callan Target Date Index bounced...

October 29, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Target-date fund (TDF) returns experienced gains in the third quarter.

October 29, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Ibbotson Associates reported target-date funds (TDF) experienced gains in the third quarter.

October 26,2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) investments rate of return dropped from 23.6% last year to 0.76%...

October 15, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) rolled out a new fund, The Goldman Sachs Retirement Portfolio...