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September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US unemployment rate dipped to a five-month low in August at 5.7%, but the domestic job-making machine is apparently still largely moribund,...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for a new series of performance benchmarks might find a solution in a new series of indexes from FTSE.

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time jobless claims posted a drop, but still clung stubbornly to the key 400,000 mark for the second straight week.

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in self-directed accounts mirrored the motions of the market in the second quarter, shirking stocks and heading for the relative safety of...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Times Job Market Confidence Index, which regularly polls New York area hiring managers and job seekers, dropped 10 points in...

September 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deposits to unit investment trusts totaled $1.31 billion in July, up substantially from the previous month's $923.8 million.

September 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The market's downdraft treated both self-directed account investors and those in core options equally badly in the second quarter, according to new data.

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Announced job cuts skyrocketed 46% in August after an earlier mid-summer lull dropped the layoff announcement figure to its lowest level in more...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thanks to a stagnant job market, worker incomes were flat in July, but that didn't restrain their spending tendencies.

August 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors dumped US equity mutual funds in July, generating a record stock fund outflow, according to an industry report.

August 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American jobless claims rose for the third week in a row - and cracked the key 400,000 level for the first time in...

August 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fewer hiring managers sought job candidates via a newspaper ad in July than the month before, according to a closely watched economic indicator.

August 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers appear to be inclined to lay off workers in the fall, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors dumped stock mutual funds at a record pace of $49 billion last month, as previous outflows turned into a raging torrent.

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recent market rallies have pumped a little lifeblood back into the average stock fund, which still lagged the S&P 500 according to mutual...

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total assets of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) dipped ever so slightly in July to $88.27 billion, according to data from the Investment Company Institute...

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers initiated 2,041 mass layoffs in July 2002 involving 245,457 workers, according to the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),...

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even the jobless claims numbers appeared to wilt in last week's heat, slipping slightly to 389,000, a drop of 2,000 from the week...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As investors pulled money out of mutual funds in the second quarter, they poured a net $4.57 billion in assets into hedge funds,...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds' July performance was in the minus column, but it continued to outdistance the performance record of major US equity indexes, according...