Retirement planning

The Mutual Fund Education Alliance has expanded its website to educate investors about investing in mutual funds for retirement. Located at the alliance's Investor's Center web page (www.mfea.com), the new section is called Retirement Center.

Aggressive campaigns to capture new investor retirement accounts, especially in Roth IRAs, appear to have produced strong results for mutual fund companies.

The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has stepped up its campaign against the Canadian government's 20 percent limit on foreign content in registered (retirement) plans, with the goal of getting the restrictions eased by next year. In the meantime, industry players continue to find creative ways around the content quota.