Investment Instruments

Slightly less than half of U.S. adults who have a financial advisor and a financial plan have ever discussed adding life insurance to their plans.

Sales of variable annuities jumped 16 percent in the second quarter, according to research organization LIMRA and its 2011 U.S. Individual Annuities Sales survey.

Rattled investors pulled more than $40 billion from mutual funds in a single week this month as fears about the global economy intensified.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (RPS) has introduced the John Hancock Education Resource Center, a website and materials ordering portal, designed to help plan sponsors, plan consultants and financial representatives educate and motivate employees about planning for retirement.

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As the trend toward index funds for defined contribution (DC) grows, BlackRock Inc. announced Monday that it has expanded its menu of index mutual funds for defined contribution (DC) plans with the June launch of 10 new index funds.