With more than 20 years serving financial markets, John Sullivan is the former editor-in-chief of 401(k) Specialist and Investment Advisor magazine and retirement editor of ThinkAdvisor.com. Sullivan is also the former editor of Boomer Market Advisor and Bank Advisor magazines, and has a background in the insurance and investment industries in addition to his journalism roots. Experienced financial services content executive specializing in creative new media delivery. He joined the American Retirement Association in 2023 as Chief Content Officer, overseeing communications for the organization, as well as its sister organizations.
Franklin Templeton Set Sights on Millennials with Latest Target-Date Fund Offerings
Get ‘em while they’re young. Franklin Templeton Investments recently announced the expansion of its retirement target fund lineup…
Global ETF/ETP Assets Broke $3 Trillion Mark in May
ETFs are still the fly to the mutual fund elephant, but they’re coming on strong. Assets invested in…
Multi-Asset Class Mutual Funds: Can They Time the Market?
If professional money managers can’t effectively time the market, why would anyone else think they can? That’s an…
Bias Alert: Mutual Fund Flows Lower When Managers Have Foreign-Sounding Names
If Barack Hussein Obama was a mutual fund manager, he probably wouldn’t succeed. Not because of his performance,…
Why We’re Our Own Worst Investing Enemy: WSJ
Ask investors what they want from their investments, and most will say the answer is obvious: They want…
Plan Providers Biased Toward Their Own Mutual Funds: Pension Research Council
Gee …who would have thought? A new paper from the Pension Research Council investigates whether mutual fund families…
Assets Benchmarked to S&P 500 Hit $7.8 Trillion
The broad market just got a whole lot broader. S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that is has published…
Franklin Templeton Investments Launches Franklin Retirement Payout Fund Series
Franklin Templeton launched its Franklin Retirement Payout Fund series, which the San Mateo-based investment behemoth says “is designed…
DO NOT Retire Here: Bankrate Survey
The Big Apple is rotten to the core—at least when it comes to retirement. Bankrate’s “Best and Worst…
How to Build an Investment Brand
A new survey of marketing executives reveals the most pressing opportunities and challenges facing investment management firms amid…