Investment Instruments

According to new research by Mintel, four in 10 women have less than $10,000 saved and only 21 percent have more than $100,000 in all of their investment accounts.

If Washington allows tax cuts to expire at the end of the year, taxes on dividends will nearly triple for the highest-paid Americans, leading to a possible collapse of the products.

United Technologies' fixed-annuity option in its 401(k) plan could provide retirement income guarantees for its participants, but there are costs involved.

Does the AARP have stocks in paper companies? Maybe a better issue to push is fee disclosures with good information, not just pages and pages of vague data.

The majority of employers cut costs during the Great Recession by downsizing, laying people off, freezing salaries and other cutbacks, but the trend is starting to reverse.

Mutual fund shareholders aren't budging from their recently conservative approach to investing, despite this year's stock market gains. Cash was pulled from stock funds for the eighth month in a row in October, while bond funds attracted cash for the 14th consecutive month.