Investment Instruments

It might be a dream, but investing in a favorite team is not always a touchdown or home run for the client.

Professionally managed options continued to gain ground in 2012, with more than one-third of Vanguard plan participants investing in them.

Institutional investors are confident they know how to manage risk, despite market swings, inflation and weaker returns.

Down, down, down. That's the direction of stocks in the BRICS economies, which were investment darlings last year but now seem deadweights.

Variable annuity sales showed some improvement in the first quarter, a positive sign for an industry that has been slumping.

Pension plan funding hit a two-year high in May, with companies responding to a Mercer survey reporting their plans were 86 percent funded.