Forty-one percent of defined contribution assets are controlled by consultants, with the majority of these assets in large plans with more than $500 million in assets, according to Cerulli Associates.

(MoneyWatch) Many retirement plans, foundations, universities, endowments and other plan sponsors hire investment consultants. It's estimated that as of June 2011, over $13 trillion of tax-exempt U.S.

A group of 14 institutional investment consulting firms have joined forces to promote and improve sustainable investment practices in the U.S. The Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group.

Bolstered by rising stock markets, the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System's investments gained about $817 million in value during the quarter that ended Sept. 30, reaching over $24 billion, the system ...

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Investment consultants are focusing on the lasting impacts that macroeconomic trends — the growing wealth gap, longer life expectancy and political uncertainty in an unprecedented bull market — will ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Graystone Consulting, a business of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), announced today that it was named by Crisil Coalition Greenwich, a leading global provider of strategic ...

Twelve investment consulting firms, together responsible for advising pension funds and insurers on $10 trillion in assets, launched the Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative, the consultants ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citi’s growing team of Financial Advisors garnered 32 positions on Bank Investment Consultant’s annual Top 100 Bank Advisors list, tripling Citi’s presence on the list ...

Last week, The Economist profiled a forthcoming Journal of Finance paper--Picking Winners? Investment Consultants' Recommendations of Fund Managers--about the performance of institutional investment ...

Less than 3 per cent of pension schemes retendered for investment consulting services last year, compared to 18.6 per cent of schemes in 2008, according to research from selection specialists IC ...

So what’s a billion dollars’ worth of professional investment advice actually worth? Turns out not much, the Financial Times reports Monday. A new study shows that pension funds and other large ...