Temma Ehrenfeld

Twenty-seven percent say they are “not at all confident” they’ll have enough money, according to EBRI.

McKinsey says China will grow more slowly than expected; Barclays comments that bad news on U.S. core capital goods does not indicate a sharp slowdown and Latin American countries’ finances look sound; Janney Scott sees stock buys in Japan; and Among mutual funds, S&P has high marks for Berwyn Fund, Wells Fargo Advantage Growth Fund, and Loomis Sayles Small Cap Growth Fund.

To assess your compatibility with other principals, you need to carefully vet the firm’s culture, investment philosophy, infrastructure, strategy for growth and compliance record, says Andrew J. Sohn, of Antaeus Wealth Advisors, in Boxboro, Massachusetts.

With the Dow Jones and S&P 500 both rising around 3% last week, BlackRock’s Chief Equity Strategist Bob Doll expects that stocks will continue to shine.

Barclays revises its inflation forecast; Lou Stanaslovich comments that TIPs will only perform well if inflation rises; S&P reports on global mutual funds holding at least 10% in cash; commodities continue to be volatile; Janney Scott Montgomery sees opportunities in the U.S., the Eurozone and Japan.

“Once the Japanese reactors are contained and other governments have assured themselves that their plants are safe, the world will return to using their nuclear power plants and building new ones,” Malcolm Gissen, co-manager of the Encompass Fund, told Financial Planning.

About two-thirds of employees with these accounts received an employer contribution, but only 28% of workers say that their employer put in $1,000 or more last year, down from 37% in 2008. About 15% say that their employer contributed between $200 and $499.

The popularity of big brands on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube may predict stock prices ten and thirty days later, according to a study at Pace University in New York City.

Despite the turmoil in the Middle East and the potential for nuclear catastrophe in Japan, he wrote, “our assessment is that none of these risks have yet derailed or will derail, the global economic recovery or the longer-term bull market in equities.”

Barclays estimates the earthquake will cost from 2.4 to 3.4% of Japan’s GDP. GMO says the stock market drop was an overreaction unless entire eastern half of Japan becomes uninhabitable. Federated thinks Japanese stocks may soon be a good buy. Janney, Montgomery, Scott notes that in 1995, the Nikkei dropped 25% after a quake and recovered by the end of the year. On a separate topic, in a Keefe Bruyette & Woods report on the performance of U.S. mutual fund families, T. Rowe Price shines and Janus is floundering.

But regulators will eventually require that they use valid tests.

Parents may need to worry less that they’ll promote dependency, study finds.

The purchase would bring its total reps to 12,600

But workers may return in the next year, says Keefe Bruyette & Woods

Even three years can increase income by 38%

But don’t be surprised to see a 1,200 drop in the Dow.

Fulltime students at four year schools received about $16,000 in aid this year.

The S&P is trading at 24x cyclically adjusted earnings, Dorsey Farr reminds us; Barclays predicts that the end of QE2 in June won’t affect interest rates; BlackRock sees quality munis as a buying opportunity; RS Investments likes small and large cap tech stocks.

Franklin Templeton Investments is staffing up as it expands services for RIAs.

The National Association for Business Economics predicts faster economic growth, low inflation, and high unemployment