Investment Instruments

All-In should be all out as in thrown out. Its got a fatal flaw that may doom 401(k) investors.

Workers continued to stash more money in their 401(k) plans in the third quarter, but the stock market's sharp decline only left them further behind in reaching their savings goals.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. announced that it will increase the yearly maximum benefit a 65-year-old retiree can receive to almost $56,000 from $54,000.

Stable value funds arent as stable as most investors would like, according to a white paper by Towers Watson.

Net sales of variable annuities surged in the third quarter of 2011, reaching their highest level since the comparable period in 2007, according to a new study.

Last week we looked at the variance in the adoption of 401(k) plans by industry. Keep in mind that this study only looked at the large plan market. I wanted to see if the pattern holds true when we look at smaller plans (2-99 participants):