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December 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the performance of the Average US Hedge Funds was not as strong as that of the major equity indices in November, their...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index increased by 0.5% in November 2001 against a 8.6% increase in the Dow Jones Industrial Index and a...

December 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Initial unemployment benefit claims fell sharply to 394,000 in the week ending December 8, a drop of 86,000 from the previous week's revised...

December 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internet funds kept up their recovery from the effects of the September 11 attacks in November, with an average monthly gain of 14.8%....

December 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bank of New York ADR Index will convert to free-float adjusted shares from full-market capitalization, effective December 24, the bank announced Wednesday.

December 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Open Market Committee sliced another quarter percent off its federal funds rate target, to provide the economy with some much-needed stimulus

December 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants shifted strongly out of company stock in November, making up nearly 26% of the monthly transfers tracked by the Hewitt 401(k) index.

December 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The FTSE All-World Index continued to climb out of the lows it hit in September, increasing by 6% in US dollar terms on...

December 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The unemployment rate surged to its highest level since 1995, according to the monthly unemployment report released by the Department of Labor (DoL).

December 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fixed-income products were especially stellar performers during the third quarter, while equity managers' returns got unmercifully pounded, according to data from Nelson Information.

December 6, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the latest positive sign that the US may be climbing out of its recession, the number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits for the...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US mutual fund assets went up by 3.1% to reach $6.616 trillion in October, according to figures from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A total of 212,695 workers lost their jobs in October as a result of 1,816 mass layoffs in the US - the highest...

November 29, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Archipelago and REDIBook will merge their stock trading systems in a bid to create the largest alternative stock trading network by share volume, according...

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Conference Board's monthly Help-Wanted Index, a measure of employment advertisements, dipped by a point, to settle at 52 in September, a 34%...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The lines for first time unemployment benefits grew 12% longer in the week ending November 24, according to figures released by the US Department...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in socially screened investment portfolios under professional management grew by 36% between 1999 and 2001, climbing from $1.49 trillion to $2.03 trillion...

November 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FTSE has formally launched the FTSE4Good Global Index and the FTSE4Good US Index, the last two in its series of eight indexes covering...

November 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The appeal of the American stock market has apparently been lost on Canadians.

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets invested in the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) rose 7.8% to total $69.42 billion at the end of October, according to the Investment...