With the recent volatility in the financial markets, participants have had many questions about what it means for their retirement investments. BPA currently works with approximately 170 fund families in the delivery of our retirement program – firms who are constantly studying the investment markets. To assist plan participants, we have created this page to provide relevant articles from asset managers pertaining to recent market events. In addition to the links provided here, fund families will offer other articles on their websites which may be helpful.

For additional resources, please visit the participant website. The Market Dashboard of the site is updated daily with news and content on the investment markets (opening bell reports, mid day reports, closing bell reports, and information on all segments of the market). The Education tab of the participant website includes a library of education and planning tools to help participants assess their long term goals, time horizon and risk tolerance so they can make prudent decisions regarding the investment of their account.

Investing for your retirement is a long-term effort. In this time of market volatility, we hope these tools are helpful to plan participants.

• It's Critical to Remain in Stocks Even in a Bear Market. (T. Rowe Price)

• Stocks rally on  Geithner pick as Treasury secretary (Federated Investors)

• Duessal Economic and Market Update (Federated Investors)

• Letter from the American Funds CEO

• How to weather a market correction ( Federated Investors)

• Federated Investors

• MFS

• American Century

• Fidelity

• T. Rowe Price

• Vanguard