The debate circling around MMT has not escaped institutional investors, who want to know their money manager's take on the macroeconomic view.

Global economist Dambisa Moyo talks politics, infrastructure requirements and the need to reset ideals.

Two receive the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis."

Elga Bartsch joined the BlackRock Investment Institute as head of economic and markets research.

S&P Global Ratings lowered its rating on Connecticut's of general obligation debt to A from A+ in part because of its high unfunded pension liabilities.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency raised Chicago's long-term general obligation bond rating two notches to A from BBB+, citing efforts to reduce the city's pension burden.

A no-deal outcome of negotiations involving the U.K.'s exit from the EU risks market fragmentation and financial instability.

People in the U.S., U.K. and Australia are struggling to prepare for retirement because of increasing demands on them to manage their own risks.

University of Chicago professor Richard H. Thaler was awarded the Nobel economics prize "for his contributions to behavioral economics."

University of Chicago professor Richard H. Thaler was awarded the Nobel economics prize “for his contributions to behavioral economics.”

Pensions & Investments' ninth annual global pension symposium in Tokyo, under the banner this year of “derisking vs. risk taking,” found Japan's public and corporate pension funds staking out ground on opposite sides of the risk spectrum.

The U.S. is facing three retirement “train wrecks”: the growth of social security entitlements, “grotesquely underfunded” pension funds, and the structure of defined contribution plans, Jack Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, said Thursday at the 25th annual Morningstar Investor Conference in Chicago.

It is a well-known saying in the investment community that Japanese equities should be occasionally rented, but never owned. Are there any reasons to believe the current market rally is different? Dramatic changes are now taking place in Japan. What we are witnessing is a very real opportunity for Japan to break out from the economic and political stagnation that it has endured over the past two decades.

Federal tax subsidies for retirement savings should be redirected to get more people saving for retirement and other purposes, according to the Brookings Institution's Karen Dynan, vice president and co-director of economic studies.

The steady decline in key household savings indicators — including retirement savings — in recent years slowed to a less than two-percentage-point drop from February 2012 to February 2013 compared to a seven-percentage-point drop from 2010 to 2012, according to the America Saves survey.

Treasury 10-year yields fell from the highest level in nine months after a government report showed the U.S. economy unexpectedly contracted in the fourth quarter.

Gradual economic growth and little progress in the unemployment rate convinced members of the Federal Open Market Committee to continue with monthly Treasury purchases of $85 billion and to keep the federal fund rate at zero to 0.25%, according to a statement from the first two-day meeting of 2013.

The U.S. pension system is expected to become more difficult to keep adequately fund as the “working-age” population is expected to decline by 2020, according to a report from Mercer.