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June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unit investment trusts, investment companies that purchase fixed portfolios of selected stocks or bonds, increased their deposits through offerings in April of $1.11...

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of people claiming unemployment insurance benefits for the first time dropped a bit more than expected last week, but stayed above...

June 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes is increasing coverage of emerging stock markets in the Dow Jones World Index to 95% of market capitalization from 80%.

June 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average US hedge fund increased by 1.5% in May while the average offshore hedge fund gained 1.2%, according to Van Hedge Fund...

June 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index was up 0.8% for May 2001, up from 0.7% in April, with emerging markets and global macro investing...

June 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Results of a recent study fly in the face of the widespread view that that an economic downturn is a dangerous time to...

June 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans lining up for unemployment insurance for the first time fell to 428,000 in the week ending June 9, according...

June 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The NASDAQ filed its final report on decimalization with the SEC yesterday, claiming that liquidity for large institutional investors has not been hurt,...

June 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Investment Company Institute has just published a new factbook on mutual funds as part of its investor awareness program.

June 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Frank Russell Company has posted the preliminary results of its annual reconstitution process that will rebalance the firm's 21 US equity indexes, including...

June 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average daily volume of Vanguard Total Stock Market VIPERS shares traded during their first week on the market was 1,182,533 shares per...

June 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trading was suspended for almost four hours today at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) following a glitch in recently installed trading software.

June 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Average US Hedge Fund returned 1.7% net of fees, outperforming the Nasdaq and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which returned minus 0.2%...

June 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although it has found no evidence that institutional customers are suffering from the switch to decimal pricing, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)...

June 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of initial unemployment insurance claims reached 432,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis, its highest level in nearly nine years, according to...

June 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small-cap value funds topped mutual fund category returns in May, according to fund-tracker Lipper Inc.

June 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The decade-long bull run saw institutional investors making long term investments of vast amounts of money in private equity, money which is now...

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Developed markets slipped in May, with the US interest rate cuts failing to calm fears of a global recession.

June 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real-time prices for the Dow Jones Industrial Average will be calculated 6.5 hours before the US market opens, once the index begins trading...

June 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today's unemployment numbers could provide more questions than answers, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics unveils the impact of some structural changes in...