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February 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond mutual funds went from a brisk canter to a full gallop in January as $46 billion in new assets poured...

February 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The continuing mutual fund trading scandal continued to exact a cruel vengeance from the fund companies caught up in it so far, with...

February 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The nation's mutual funds continued their rise in January, gaining $122.3 billion (1.6%) in January, following December's 2.5% increase.

February 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The queue of jobless workers lining up to file initial unemployment benefits claims was up modestly last week.

February 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Exchange-traded funds (ETF) assets were up modestly in January, according to the latest industry data.

February 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The MSCI Hedge Fund Composite Index was up 1.58% in January, in line with earlier estimates.

February 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - January proved to be a difficult month for the nation's unemployed with the number of mass layoffs and the amount of involved workers...

February 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Leaning on the back of particularly strong equity inflows, assets poured into unit investment trusts (UIT) in January 2004.

February 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government officials reported Thursday that the number of unemployed workers applying for first-time jobless benefits last week plunged from the previous week's totals...

February 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - January inflows into equity and balanced mutual funds (open-end, closed-end, funds underlying variable annuities, and ETFs) ran at the fastest monthly pace ever,...

February 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Overall mutual fund assets increased $925 billion—or 15.5%—to $6.887 trillion from 2002's level, mostly on the strength of booming US and world equity...

February 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CSFB/Tremont hedge fund indices both had positive returns in January, as the Hedge Fund Index closed the month 1.70% higher and the Investable...

February 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary reports show the MSCI Hedge Fund Composite Index posting an increase for January of 1.5%, a slight drop from the 1.8% increase...

February 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time claims for unemployment benefits last week bumped up unexpectedly by 6,000 to 363,000 from the previous week's revised 357,000.

February 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The number of extended mass layoffs at US employers took a dramatic drop the fourth quarter of 2003, compared to the same period a...

February 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Year end 2003 assets held in separately managed accounts were $506.6 billion, up 11% from the third quarter and up a whopping 29%...

February 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) investors picked up in 2004 where they left off at year-end 2003 - in a budding love affair with equities at the...

February 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds turned in a 2.14% January performance with the Regulation D index the top performer over the month, according to the Hennessee...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The economy's job-making machine apparently sputtered back to life in January, churning out 112,000 new non-farm positions in a performance that vastly outclassed...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2004 pension asset/liability gap started off behind the eight ball in January with an "impressive" 1.42% asset gain, but ran into a...