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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 2004 pension asset/liability gap started off behind the eight ball in January with an "impressive" 1.42% asset gain, but ran into a...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it comes to predicting how well the economy will do in churning out new non-farm jobs, economists haven't been all that successful.

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 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobless Americans lining up for initial unemployment benefits shot up last week, according to a government report.

February 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US companies' unit labor costs fell 1.3% in the final quarter of 2003, after a 5.6% third-quarter drop, the government said.

February 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total mutual fund assets ticked up by 4% worldwide during the third quarter of 2003, a much weaker showing than the second quarter's...

February 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity markets continued on the rise during the fourth quarter of 2003 as increasing investor appetite for a larger equity allocation led to...

February 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The median return for the 498 corporate, foundation/endowment, public and Taft-Hartley funds in the Russell/Mellon US Master Trust Universe roared ahead by 22.61%...

February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when the domestic job market is supposed to be slowly mending, companies announced 26% more job cuts in January 2004...

February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) continued to rise after finishing well in 2003, as the NAREIT Composite increased by 4.3% last month.