Investment Instruments

For the first month in five, investors were net redeemers of fund assets, withdrawing a close to $42 billion from the conventional funds business, according to a Lipper report released early Wednesday.

Investment counselors have sounded the clarion call throughout years and decades past: When thinking about retirement – when simply saving and investing their well-earned money – people should strive to diversify.

Florida's pension plan grew by slightly more than $19 billion in the fiscal year completed June 30.

Americans believe their personal finances will improve over the next year, and, according to a survey from The Hartford, this is translating into more people saving for retirement.

Some might call the Wall Street Journal’s article on automatic enrollment “sensationalized pessimism,” but if there’s no such thing as bad publicity, then I’d say that putting auto-enrollment in the spotlight is a good thing.

The nation's largest public pension fund has posted its highest investment returns since before the recession, reporting returns of 20.7 percent for the fiscal year ended June 30, the fund's investment team announced Monday.