Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner need to join together and put an end to damaging, out-of-control rhetoric.

Entine investigates the investment of American state pensions in SRI funds.

“Socially responsible” investing (SRI), which incorporates nonfinancial social and ethical criteria, has attracted significant publicity in recent years and sparked interest among some institutional investors, public pension funds, and Social Security reform advocates, particularly in the wake of recent corporate scandals. SRI adherents claim that one of every ten dollars...

Social investing, by both the political left and right, frequently ends up hurting the very people--particularly the economically disadvantaged--that it is supposed to help.

The U.S. structure for collective investment, in which individual corporations hire outside investment advisers, is unusual among developed economies. Most other industrialized nations use structures based on a direct contractual relationship between the fund manager and the investor. In such structures, there is no intervening corporation, but there are...

Although the mutual fund industry has grown phenomenally in recent years and now holds more than $8 trillion in securities, it still operates in a highly competitive market. Mutual funds today face strong competition from defined contribution plans and particularly from 401(k) investments. Administrators of 401(k) and other pension plans,...

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Economists sometimes ask basic questions about regulation that reflect a broader perspective on issues than is usually taken by those who wrestle with regulatory issues day to day. Paula Tkac, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank...

Pension-fund trustees have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize investment returns and should not be bound by "socially responsible investing."