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June 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More and more investors, eager to cut back on risk through diversification, are fleeing the still volatile equity market for the world of...

June 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Risk aversion increased in May as mutual fund investors avoided low performing equities and moved to more defensive plays, according to estimates from...

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index is up 0.67% for May 2002, once again outperforming the major US market indices.

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Multiemployer pension funds took it on their collective chin during 2001, with a median loss on their equity investment of 11.3%, according to...

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over the past six years, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) have outperformed their home equity markets by 83%, partly due to investor perceptions of...

June 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of initial unemployment benefits claims filed last week was up again, the Department of Labor (DoL) announced.

June 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the quarterly meeting of its Equity Indices Committee, FTSE Group will delete three companies from the UK's FTSE 100.

June 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Large US equity investment choices took it on the chin in May, yielding to GIC/stable value offerings, while company stock remained a hot...

June 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The bulls have been running in small and mid-cap value funds so far this year, but the bears were frolicking in the rest...

June 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private equity performance results for the final quarter of 2001 were -27.8%, slightly higher than the previous quarter, which lost -32.4%.

June 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Frank Russell Company has posted its preliminary lists of companies that will join or leave the broad-market Russell 3000 Index when the firm...

June 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds produced a near flat return of 0.11% in May, according to numbers from the Hennessee Hedge Fund Advisory Group.

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sign that the labor market is slowly climbing out of a trough, the unemployment rate fell to 5.8% in May, according to...

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US household net worth inched up over the first quarter, as stronger real-estate values cancelled out stock market losses, a report from the...

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes has shuffled the constituents of its Titans indexes as part of its regular annual review.

June 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Average US Hedge Fund eked out an estimated 0.4% net return in May, according to preliminary estimates from Van Hedge Fund Advisors...

June 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a positive sign for the US labor market, the number of jobless claims fell to their lowest level in more than a...

June 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust launched Global Investor Passport, a Web site that aims to aid plan sponsors and investors in obtaining and filtering information.

June 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The top five investment managers of the UK's segregated pension funds saw the value of their businesses plummet in 2001, a survey by...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement and long-term investing are the primary savings goals for over half of older Canadians, a survey finds.