Investment Instruments

With defined benefit plans on the outs, companies with defined contribution plans are looking for better ways to help their employees understand what they need to retire in comfort and help them to achieve that.

Almost 60 percent of financial executives believe their pension plan poses either a moderate or substantial risk to their organization.

New research by Towers Watson shows institutional investors continue to diversify their investment portfolios into alternative assets through direct funds rather than funds of funds.

More than half of investors believe the global economy will improve in the year ahead.

ETFs have grown enormously over the past 20 years, and 401(k) plans have grown over an even longer period of time, and yet the twain have hardly met.

Vanguard plans to launch the Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund and its ETF shares by the end of the second quarter of 2013.