Investments

ProFunds Group has just unveiled three ETFs with single-inverse exposure to China, U.S. real estate and U.S. basic materials.

Seventy-five percent of financial advisers’ clients are planning to delay retirement up to five years, according to the quarter Brinker Barometer.

Northern Trust has launched a new investment fund platform consisting of collective funds sub-advised by investment managers retained and overseen by Northern Trust. The sub-advisors will market their funds themselves.

HSBC has launched the World Selection Funds, sub-advised funds managed by a wide range of respected investment mangers and that employ tactical asset management to invest in multiple asset classes, including domestic and international equity, bonds, commodities, property and private equity.

While investors shunned stock mutual funds in 2009 despite their dramatic comeback, they may finally be poised to return to the stock market via long-term funds, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Buyers of long-term-care insurance are reacting to the economic turmoil in just the way many in the insurance industry expected: with thrift and caution.

Wall Street is abuzz over whether the FDIC will encourage pension funds to invest in failed banks.

How will health care reform affect your clients? Where does the buy-and-hold argument stand? Are Americans doing something about their debt? What concerns about the economy still exist? Today, commentary from JPMorgan, Raymond James, Research Affiliates, T. Rowe Price and Gluskin Sheff makes sense of the economy’s current state.

In their recent shift toward retail deposits, one factor that has helped banks is weak competition from money market funds.

PHOENIX -- The mutual fund industry has been wracking its brains to come up with a suitable solution that provides investors with a guaranteed income component in retirement, but has so far failed to achieve this goal.

48% Saving Less for Retirement

The Securities and Exchange Commission is promising to take another look at revising or eliminating 12b-1 fees this year, now that the financial crisis seems to be abating.

Market Players Push for Changes

NEW YORK—Following one the worst global financial meltdowns, the economic recovery has exceeded almost anyone’s expectations and will get another jolt when employment numbers begin to improve in the next couple of months, according to Barclays Capital.

More than $2 trillion in public pension fund assets could potentially change management as these funds question the advantage of alternative investment classes and seek more reliable, less correlated choices in the wake of 2008 losses.

Money market mutual funds could continue to pay low yields, even after a future rise in interest rates turns their income around.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is promising to take another look at revising or eliminating 12b-1 fees this year, now that the financial crisis seems to be abating.

Financial planners, watch your backs. Financial Engines, a retirement plan advisor co-founded by a Nobel Prize winner, completed an initial public offering Monday that blew the doors off the IPO market and affirmed investor belief in a business model that offers low-cost sophisticated retirement advice to individual investors.

Instead of gaining from the lessons that behavioral finance has to offer, much of the industry has treated it as a parlor game.

SIFMA and CMSA back Garrett's follow-up bill