Investment Instruments

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Fidelity Investments has published a report that identifies the top 30 investment themes it believes are likely to have the greatest influence on the performance of each sector in 2012 and beyond.

The SPARK Institute and the Investment Company Institute have released a Sample Glossary of Investment-Related Terms for Disclosures to Retirement Plan Participants that defined contribution plans can use and adapt in complying with new Department of Labor participant disclosure regulations requiring plans to give participants specific information about plan investments,...

The Southwest Airlines Pilots Retirement Savings Plan took the top spot in BrightScopes Year-End Top 30 Ratings List covering 401(k) plans with more than $1 billion in assets. The Southwest plan bumped The Savings Plan of Saudi Arabian Oil Company to the number 2 spot after it held the...

In a letter to the Federal Insurance Office today, the Insured Retirement Institute encouraged the FIO to focus on the insurance regulatory system in the context of the current state of retirement savings in America and the need for consumers to insure against the risk of outliving their assets as...

Perhaps, after its all said and done, the end of the Mayan Calendar the Year 2012 will not mark the end of civilization as we know it. Maybe it just will just mark the beginning of the end of overpriced 401*(k) service providers.