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401(k) Mutual Funds
74 posts
Despite Reform, Asset Managers Deliberately Confuse Clients
One step forward equals two steps back. While our colleague Terry Dunne argues in nearby pages that there’s much…
May 11, 2016
Replace Target-Date Funds as 401(k) QDIA? Not So Fast
“Co-exist” is the bumper sticker research message from Cerulli Associates. The Boston-based global analytics firm suggests that managed…
April 29, 2016
401(k) Participants to Alpha: ‘I Can’t Quit You’
Despite the recent surge of assets into passive investments, many investors are reluctant to forfeit the pursuit of…
April 5, 2016
Vanguard Introduces Low Cost Actively-Managed Mutual Fund
John Bogle’s almost evangelical zeal for passive strategies often masks the fact that he does nonetheless advocate for…
March 10, 2016
Vanguard Lowers Expense Ratios (Again)
How low can they go? Vanguard investors saved nearly $55 million as a result of lower expense ratios…
February 29, 2016
ETFs Snap Two-Year Winning Streak
Exchange traded funds snapped a streak of 23 straight months of positive flows dating back to January 2014,…
February 29, 2016
Mutual Fund Manager Swears off Gun Investments in Wake of Mass Shootings
Cynical ploy or sincere effort? The spate of recent mass shootings has one mutual fund manager swearing off…
December 8, 2015
SEC Proposes New Liquidity Rules for Mutual Funds and ETFs
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted last week to propose a “comprehensive package” of rule reforms designed to…
September 29, 2015
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…
June 18, 2015
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…
June 18, 2015