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May 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - April disappointed investors, despite promises of a rebound made by a slew of positive economic data, as the average diversified US stock mutual...

May 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL)'s latest unemployment insurance weekly claims report showed initial claims dipping slightly, though still remaining above the key 400,000...

April 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of America's mutual funds rose by $142.67 billion to $7.067 trillion in March, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI)'s...

April 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes announced rule changes for four index series in the Dow Jones Titans family that will increase transparency and make the...

April 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internet firms shed 824 jobs in April, significantly down from the 1,549 job cuts announced the previous months, according to data from Challenger,...

April 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More workers are industry hopping these days to take advantage of sectors where the job market is glowing red hot, a new survey...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The employment cost index, a key inflation gauge, increased by 0.8% over the first quarter of 2002, down from a seasonally adjusted 1%...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The self-employed are confident that their businesses will do well as the economy rebounds, a new survey finds.

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a sign that the economic recovery has not yet taken hold, the Conference Board's Help-Wanted Advertising Index fell by one point in...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The lines of workers filing for first time unemployment benefits got a little shorter this week, yet the numbers still remain high, new...

April 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers initiated 1,460 mass layoff actions in March 2002 a small decrease from February's total of 1,383, new data from the US Department...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets invested in exchange traded funds (ETF) added up to $88.2 billion at the close of March 2002, up 10% from the previous...

April 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Making Doug Fabian's latest mutual fund "Lemon List" is a dubious honor at best, but at least fund families on the First Quarter...

April 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It's been one week up, one week down for initial jobless claims numbers, and the latest data release from the Department of Labor...

April 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investor sentiment was on the up in March, with around $29.6 billion in new money flowing into equity mutual funds, the biggest monthly...

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As a global economic recovery showed further signs of taking hold in March, UK pension and life insurance investors increased their equity weightings...

April 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total global hedge fund assets are expected to grow 26% in 2002, according to a survey from Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage.

April 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While hedge funds have outperformed the broader markets on a year-to-date basis, they lagged the major market indices in March, data from Credit...

April 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an ambivalent stock market environment, the Average US Hedge Fund returned 1.4% net of fees in the first quarter of the year,...

April 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 86% of funds gained ground in March, according to performance figures compiled by Morningstar Canada.