Investing | December 29th, 2017 Steady Fixed-Income Outlook for 2018 With a new Fed chair and expectations for rising rates, 2018 will be a year to focus on fixed income...
Data and Research | December 19th, 2017 TDFs Evolve Alongside Participant Preferences The 2017 Participant Survey from Northern Trust Asset Management also shows today's workers are looking more at outcomes to measure...
Investing | December 19th, 2017 Multi-Asset Fund Research Recommends More Focused Benchmarks Respondents to a recent survey broadly use multiple benchmarks and measures to assess multi-asset fund performance, with around three selected...
Compliance | December 18th, 2017 Delta Air Lines Excessive Fee ERISA Lawsuit Dismissed Drawing on a number of recent decisions, the district court ruled the plaintiffs did not adequately describe how the offering...
Data and Research | December 18th, 2017 Nonprofit Plan Sponsors Still Confused About Fee Levelization Data shows about one-fourth of nonprofit plan sponsors are not aware of what comprises a formal fee policy statement, and...
Data and Research | December 12th, 2017 Investors Agree Guaranteed Income in Retirement Is Important However, there is confusion about how to get this additional income stream.
Compliance | December 6th, 2017 CenturyLink Faces ERISA Lawsuit on Custom Large Cap Fund Design The complaint seeks to state a claim—without relying on hindsight—by arguing the underperformance of a large cap fund was “virtually...
Investing | December 5th, 2017 Year-End Market Analysis Highlights Global Momentum However, the increasing “narrowness” of the sources of return in broad market indexes is concerning to MFS experts.
Investing | December 4th, 2017 ETF Growth Trends Highlight ESG, Strategic Beta Findings suggest the opportunity is ripe for smart beta ETF products, but more industry education is needed.
Investing | December 1st, 2017 Sponsors Must Weigh Response To Record-Breaking Equity Markets With strong November returns, the Wilshire 5000 U.S. equity index extended an unprecedented run of consecutive monthly gains.
Compliance | November 30th, 2017 Investment Committee Quiz Reveals Fiduciary Knowledge Shortfall The results of a fiduciary primer quiz survey prove once again that institutional investing can be a tricky topic for...
Investing | November 29th, 2017 Argument for Auto-Enroll Emergency Savings The idea is relatively simple: workers who do not yet have emergency savings will be directed to first fund a...
Investing | November 9th, 2017 Institutional Investors See Eight Quarters of Positive Returns Wilshire’s data shows this was the best one-year return since the year ending June 30, 2014; that year ended with...
Investing | November 6th, 2017 BMO Finds Demographic Differences in Investing Preferences Respondents across all three generations cite saving and investing for retirement as their primary financial goal; however, Millennials are less...
Investing | October 30th, 2017 TDF Concentration Is a Crucial Plan Sponsor Consideration Across mutual fund and collective investment trust target-date products, the top-three managers own 62.6% of the market, while the top...
Investing | October 23rd, 2017 Portfolio Reviews Remain Important Amid Low Volatility While few if any investing professionals advocate for aggressive market timing, it is natural to ask the question of when...
Data and Research | October 17th, 2017 Ninety Percent of Investors Like the Idea of Guaranteed Income But only 46% know that annuities offer it, Jackson National Life found in a study done for the Insured Retirement...
Data and Research | October 17th, 2017 Retirees Spend More Than Expected on Health Care In spite of increased optimism, a new Wells Fargo survey finds a significant portion of workers still say they do...
Participants | October 10th, 2017 Income Uncertainty Makes Women More Risk Averse But when they work with an adviser, they understand the importance of more aggressive investing.
Compliance | October 6th, 2017 Providers Remain Uncertain Amid Tense Legislative Session The list of regulatory and legislative challenges affecting employers and their retirement plan consultants can seem endless, and when linked...