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| 1995-2004 By John Schroy, on February 24th, 2006 |  Leave a comment  The percentage of equities belonging to households and nonprofit corporations increased from 42.8% to 55.4% between December 1995 and December 2004. Over 55% of the equity shares of US corporations which belong, in the final analysis, to US households and nonprofit organizations, are held indirectly through intermediaries, such as life insurance companies, private pension funds, government retirement funds, and mutual funds. February 24th, 2006 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: insurance company, pension fund, proxies | Category: US Equities | Leave a comment |  Short urlRetirement plans By John Schroy, on February 23rd, 2006 | Leave a comment  Between 1999 and 2002, US private pension funds lost US$ 1.2 trillion in value. It would almost seem that pension fund managers had been speculating with retirement money, attempting to beat each others’ short-term performance statistics, with little interest in safeguarding the assets of plan beneficiaries. Political intrusion and trade unionism have debilitated the pension fund industry over many generations. The end of the pension industry may now be in sight. February 23rd, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: 401(k) plans, Alan Greenspan, annuities, Arthur Levitt, Benjamin Graham, Bill Clinton, CFA, common stock legend, Corporate Governance, defined benefit pensions, Democratic Party, dividends, Enron, ERISA, Financial Economists Roundtable, Franklin Roosevelt, insurance company, Lyndon Johnson, Myron Scholes, Pension Benefits Guarantee Corporation, pension fund, pension plans, price earnings ratios, Robert B Reich, Robert E Rubin, Ronald H Brown, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Total Returns, trade unions | Category: US Politics, featured | Leave a comment | Short urlRetirement saving 2004 By John Schroy, on February 22nd, 2006 | Leave a comment  American households, as of December 2004, had accumulated $3,475.1 billion in tax-deferred Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), according to the Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Accounts. The largest portion of these savings were held as “self-directed accounts”, in which a wide diversity of investment is permissible. Over the four years, 1999 to 2002, investors added $837.2 billion to their IRAs, which, added to the $118 billion in decline in value over the period, means that the market crash cost IRA savers about $955 billion. February 22nd, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: custodians, IRAs, mutual funds, Real Estate, US taxation | Category: Small Investors | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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