Investment Instruments

Retail investors are missing out on global diversification of their portfolios--in spite of advisors recommending that a clients portfolio contain some global fixed-income securities.

Phil Murphy, vice president of North American Equity Indices at Standard & Poors Dow Jones Indices, on the next evolution in target-date fund design.

Target-date funds are becoming more mainstream, according to a survey from Voya Investment Management.

This asset managers SmartRetirement fund series throws just about every asset class under the sun into its TDF recipe.

Collective investment trusts are growing in the retirement marketplace--here are several launches of CIT offerings.

Rising interest rates gave mid-50s workers a boost of 4.41 percent in retirement spending power--but an analysis by BlackRock shows that older pre-retirees might be hurt.