There’s been press about employers passing money they are saving due to tax reform along to their employees’ retirement accounts. We urge plan sponsors contributing to participant accounts to make ongoing, rather than onetime, contributions.
The Vanguard outsourced CIO difference
Categories: InvestmentsAs an outsourced CIO, Vanguard can deliver competitive endowment returns through our consistent, validated, and transparent approach to investing. The conclusion to a three-part series on the investing landscape for educational endowments.
Cross-training for financial advisors
Categories: RetirementPartnering with VRPA can help advisors serve their clients. Steve Holman, principal and new head of Vanguard Retirement Plan Access (VRPA), describes qualities Vanguard and his coach share, reflecting on his first career as a professional athlete.
Does a custom portfolio suit your needs?
Categories: InvestmentsRetirement plan participants often find themselves with a choice when they review their DC plan menus. Like a custom suit, sometimes a custom-made target-date or white-label fund is a prudent alternative to an off-the-shelf option.
Is inflation heating up? Not really
Categories: Market & economicVanguard Chief Economist Joe Davis sees inflation heading higher, but not too high. Given the moderate outlook for growth and inflation longer-term, the Fed is unlikely to begin raise rates aggressively.
Why the endowment model has lost its edge
Categories: InvestmentsThe Yale endowment model may be a victim of its own success. Opportunities in the alternative space are drying up. The second in a three-part series on the investing landscape for educational endowments.
Productivity growth, fast and slow
Categories: Market & economicVanguard Chief Economist Joe Davis looks at the paradox of stagnating productivity and technological innovation.
Two pictures are worth 2,000 words
Categories: InvestmentsSince 1996, the number of U.S. public companies has been cut in half. But Head of Vanguard Investment Strategy Group Jim Rowley explains research data from a graph showing little, if any, impact the decline has on investors.
Factor-based strategies are often different, even when focused on the same factor. Here are four key questions to ask when evaluating factor products.
Plan design has made us better investors
Categories: RetirementThe positive influence of plan design variables has helped improve participant outcomes.
