Investment Instruments

According to the Coalition of Collective Investment Trusts, CITs are becoming as easy to use as mutual funds. But there's still a lot of misconceptions about what they are, exactly.

The Fed is watching for the economy to reach or approach full employment and generate higher inflation before raising interest rates from near zero.

Towers Watson survey finds economic uncertainty affecting managers portfolio positioning.

Sixty percent of respondents to a Fifth Third Bank survey believe themselves to be up on financial matters, but their answers belie that.

By failing to make active decisions about their plans allocation, they have been auto-enrolled in TDFs and thus are more heavily exposed to equities than seasoned investors.

Fidelitys managed-account client base grew by 29 percent in 2014, with 790 new sponsors signing onto its managed-account platform.