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With the rise in fixed income yields, high-quality markets such as U.S. IG corporate bonds may offer attractive income along with potential diversification benefits from low correlations to other risk assets and enhanced downside protection.

Experienced active managers can capitalize on opportunities that fall outside their benchmarks and can manage unwanted concentrations. This has historically resulted in relatively high success rates in generating alpha.

Retirement readiness is a major challenge for many plan participants. For plan sponsors, plan design is no longer about simply focusing only on helping participants build their savings. Providing participant income solutions in the decumulation stage is now equally important, especially because new research shows that many workers need help in this area.

The emergence of new investment vehicles has opened the private equity market to a wider range of investors.

Passive investing has become popular with defined contribution plans due to its low costs and ease of use.

Private equity has become an increasingly viable option for many individual investors seeking to diversify their portfolios and mitigate volatility. In this video, you'll learn more about why your clients should consider this asset class.

As people approach retirement, their investment priorities change. They become less concerned with growth and more concerned with preservation of capital and generating income. And they are looking to their employers for investment solutions that can help. The retirement tier describes the investment products and solutions available within defined contribution (DC) plans that address the unique needs of participants who are entering the decumulation phase of retirement.

Target date funds should be designed not just to maximize wealth accumulation during a participant’s career; they should also protect that wealth as the participant approaches and enters retirement. Here are three reasons why the glide path design of target date funds matters.