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April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The number of unemployed American workers filing for benefits for the first time shot up by 64,000, according to data released by the Department...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US bond funds edged up by 0.28% in the first quarter of the year, lagging behind the 0.36% return of stock funds, as...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among Frank Russell Company's family of 21 US equity indexes, the small cap Russell 2000 Value Index performed best during the first three...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global equity markets bounced back, the FTSE All-World index gaining 4.3% in March, from the lows of the early months of 2002, bolstered...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund returns were all over the board in the first quarter, but broadly speaking, investors had little to cheer about.

March 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest reading of the Conference Board's Help Wanted Advertising Index, a rough gauge of prospects for job hunters, points to a job...

(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most stock and bond fund categories gained ground in the first quarter, although the best performers probably weren't in your 401(k) menu.

March 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of US workers filing for first-time unemployment benefits jumped up by a larger-than-expected 4.7% during the week ending March 23, a...

March 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fixed-income investments had a blockbuster year in 2001 because of plummeting interest rates, but the ongoing economic recovery may make 2002 a volatile...

March 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and participants may have fed a growing interest in passive benchmarks last year, resulting in a record year for Frank Russell's...

March 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Red Herring Communications, a media firm specializing in technology and Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (MSCI), a provider of global indices and benchmark-related...

March 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of America's mutual funds fell to $6.92 trillion in February, from $6.97 trillion in the previous month, according to data...

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to growth in the exchange traded funds (ETF) industry, Dow Jones Indexes will add seven new European indexes to its country Titans...

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Slumping capital markets had a major impact on the financial performance of pension plans around the world last year, reducing typical plan funded...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The labor market showed further signs of strengthening this week with the number of people filing for unemployment insurance benefits for the first...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trend of UK pension administrators adopting fund specific benchmarks to measure performance, ballooned during the 1990s to nearly 70% by 2001, according...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than $60 billion poured into equity mutual funds during the first quarter of 2002, the largest such figure since the second quarter...

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's hopes to give more investors confidence to invest in hedge funds with the launch of a new hedge fund index.

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee left short-term interest rates unchanged amid signs that the US economy is slowly struggling out of...

March 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant transfer activity picked up a bit in February - but only slightly, and with a conservative bent - according to the Hewitt...