Investment Instruments

Maine's legislative Democrats on Wednesday sought to put the best face on a rating agency's downgrading of state bonds, saying it targets the very issues they are focused on this session.

Two sets of documents released this week indicate that the institutions we've come to trust our retirement futures to ... may not always have done the right thing.

Alternatives are the only asset class that has experienced a major drop in asset management fees.

The Institutional Retirement Income Council aims to help plan sponsors get a better overview of the options available and a way of evaluating what's best for their employees.

Sears continues to try reduce its future pension obligations by offering early buyouts to its retirees, and is selling debt bonds to offset some of the costs.

TD Ameritrade said it brought in $15.6 billion of net new client assets in the quarter ending Dec. 31, up more than 50 percent from the same quarter a year ago.