Investment Instruments

One of the best sound-bites from last night's debate focused on Romney's large and controversial offshore holdings, part of his $100-million-plus IRA.

For banks, mortgage-making kept profits humming before the financial crisis, then blackened reputations and stamped out earnings when the crisis hit.

Its amazing how much anxiety 401(k) plan sponsors have over their duty to select investments when its so easy to mitigate that liability.

Although more than half of plan sponsors offer target-date funds in their defined contribution plans, only half of those are using TDFs as their default, according to a new survey by AllianceBernstein L.P.

ShareBuilder 401k has launched new online tools and resources to help companies and their employees better understand their new 401(k) fee disclosure statements.

Despite the Social Security COLA increase, critics say those increases will be offset by higher Medicare premiums. Welcome to the future of retirement.