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March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to growth in the exchange traded funds (ETF) industry, Dow Jones Indexes will add seven new European indexes to its country Titans...

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Slumping capital markets had a major impact on the financial performance of pension plans around the world last year, reducing typical plan funded...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The labor market showed further signs of strengthening this week with the number of people filing for unemployment insurance benefits for the first...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trend of UK pension administrators adopting fund specific benchmarks to measure performance, ballooned during the 1990s to nearly 70% by 2001, according...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than $60 billion poured into equity mutual funds during the first quarter of 2002, the largest such figure since the second quarter...

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee left short-term interest rates unchanged amid signs that the US economy is slowly struggling out of...

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's hopes to give more investors confidence to invest in hedge funds with the launch of a new hedge fund index.

March 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant transfer activity picked up a bit in February - but only slightly, and with a conservative bent - according to the Hewitt...

March 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index dropped a notch in February, falling by 0.6%. That follows a 0.5% uptick in January.

March 14, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest data release from the Department of Labor (DoL) shows a slow but steady recovery in the US labor market.

March 14, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although the performance of hedge funds was generally lackluster over the month, the Average US Hedge Fund generally outpaced the market in February,...

March 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The FTSE Group, a creator of equity indices, has added 11 US companies to its FTSE4Good Social Responsible (SRI) index.

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Average U.S. Hedge Fund posted a mild -0.7% net loss in February, based on preliminary figures received by Van Hedge Fund Advisors...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The unemployment rate inched down for the second consecutive month, data from the US Department of Labor (DoL) shows, giving Americans new evidence...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of the newly unemployed applying for unemployment benefits dipped last week, according to new data from the Department of Labor.

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Soft markets provided fertile ground for hedge fund growth in 2001, according to the Annual Hennessee Hedge Fund Manager Survey.

March 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The gap between defined benefit plan assets and liabilities widened to -4.4% in February, leaving plan sponsors concerned over appropriate asset allocations in...

March 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A further sign that the pace of layoffs is abating, planned job cuts were down almost 40% in February, to levels not seen...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock funds continued to suffer negative returns in February, with the average diversified US equity mutual fund falling about 2.9% during the month.

February 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There were 2,146 mass layoffs in January 2002 involving 263,821 workers, down slightly from the 2,440 mass layoffs in December, the Department of...