Portfolio

The Securities and Exchange Commission has given money market funds a reprieve from following an amendment to money market fund regulations requiring them to approve of the credit rating agencies they must use to determine whether a security is eligible for investment.

Frances A. McMorris, On Wall Street’s editor-in-chief, continues her new blog with a closer look at the comments streaming in to the SEC regarding a new fiduciary standard

New report by Allianz says U.S. pension market is expected to see slower growth.

So will we have inflation or deflation in the next 12 months? I can say with some authority: Yeah, probably.

Things look up for the bank channel after a challenging few years.

Tax-free money market funds continued to seesaw during the week ending Aug. 30, declining $2.84 billion to $337.91 billion in total assets on the heels of nearly $600 million the previous week, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

The unit investment trust has quietly blossomed into the dominant investing vehicle for Build America Bonds — the taxable municipal debt created under last year’s stimulus legislation.

Retirement plan participants are calming down, according to a Mass Mutual analysis of its plans.

The Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday announced that it has adopted a temporary rule requiring municipal advisers to register with it by Oct. 1 in order to comply with the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Fixed annuities, which experienced a sales boom last year in banks, stem the bleeding, while variable annuities finally start trending upward, Kehrer-Limra says.