GEICO is taking the adage “if you can't measure it, you can't manage it” to new heights for its retirement plans.

American Express is taking its pioneering spirit in retirement planning global.

North Carolina State Treasurer Janet Cowell's battle to help teachers hang on to more of their hard-earned retirement savings led to her being honored as a 2015 Innovator.

At the heart of the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds' EMPOWER campaign is sheer determination.

2015's Innovator Award winners have all broken new ground to help close the gap in pension benefits inequality.

Emerging markets debt, pummeled during last year's “taper tantrum,” is now tempting institutional investors back into the fold.

Publicly traded money managers that strengthened their business models through the market downturn generally reported profit margins in 2013 that often either matched or exceeded their pre-crisis levels.

Stability is returning to global markets, but more decisive action still is needed by both regulators and the investment management industry to regain investor confidence.

Total assets under management of the largest 500 money managers worldwide jumped 8.2% to $68 trillion in 2012, with U.S.-based managers controlling the largest market share in a decade, according to the Pensions & Investments/Towers Watson World 500 ranking.

Money managers are hard-pressed to apply knowledge management, despite professing its importance in an era of intense competition and difficult market conditions, a survey sponsored by Pensions & Investments and the University of Oxford shows.

Assets of the world's largest 300 retirement funds increased by 9.8% in 2012, eclipsing the 1.9% growth rate from the previous year, according to an annual survey conducted by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson & Co.

APG — the fiduciary manager of the €292 billion ($381 billion) Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, Heerlen, Netherlands — wants to share its financial knowledge to the next generation.

Some investment strategies intended to better protect institutions in a highly volatile environment are showing cracks under the pressure of the recent market sell-off.

Neil Odom-Haslett was named head of commercial real estate lending at Standard Life Investments.

John Humphrey was named managing director and Robert Glauerdt was appointed as director at Berkshire Capital Securities based in London.

Danske Invest appointed Goldman Sachs Asset Management to subadvise an active $1.6 billion emerging markets debt portfolio.

John Misselbrook was appointed interim CEO at Aviva Investors.

Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites, Paris, issued an RFP for up to three active Japanese equities managers to run a portfolio totaling €400 million ($521 million).

BNP Paribas Asset Management's Christian Dargnat has been elected the new president of the European Fund and Asset Management Association.

The easiest sailing is over for emerging markets equities, and institutions are bracing for more choppy waters ahead.

The £2.6 billion ($4 billion) Lafarge UK Pension, Dorking, England, appointed Towers Watson as fiduciary manager.

Proposals to restructure the U.K.'s Local Government Pension Scheme system could consolidate about £150 billion ($235 billion) in pension assets and ease the way for billions of pounds to be shifted into alternatives from equities.