Investments

After the Fed raised rates, many market participants with fixed-income-heavy investment mixes are wondering what a period of rising interest rates could mean for their portfolios.

Municipal bonds can be a more lucrative option for some retirement savers than comparable, higher-yielding bonds.

“Public pension plans continue to bury their heads in the sand living in a time warp of decades-old actuarial assumptions,” says a former Connecticut state treasurer.

Fidelity Investments is trimming fees on the target-date index funds it sells to retirement plans and rolling out new offerings that combine active and passive strategies.

Academic and non-profit institutions need a new strategy for today’s changing needs.

Clients saving for retirement are advised to overweight their portfolio with small-cap value stocks and funds. Here's how.

The payment allows the plan to allocate shares of stock to each eligible worker valued at nearly 18% of eligible wages earned during 2017.

Employees may want to cash in their retirement accounts but other variables complicate the outlook.

Displaying care, skill and due diligence in their methodology is a higher consideration in the process.

Employees may want to cash in their retirement accounts but other variables complicate the outlook.