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February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Final figures for the MSCI Hedge Fund Composite Index revealed a 1.34% return for January, on strong gains by the Directional Trading strategy.

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Public and private pension funds, university endowments, and charitable foundations have had quite enough of the bear market causing many to head for...

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds decreased 0.9% to $6.33 trillion in January.

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the US job market showing few signs of a lasting recovery, the number of workers filing first-time jobless claims last week jumped...

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the US job market showing few signs of a lasting recovery, the number of workers filing first-time jobless claims last week jumped...

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management has handed the reins of its global equities division to Martin Porter.

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recent trend of compensation cuts hitting hard at the pocketbooks of financial-services company executives continues with an announcement from the Goldman Sachs...

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Departing Chief Executive Officers (CEO) received exit packages in 2002 and 2001 that averaged $16.5 million.

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It comes as no surprise that a Kaiser Family Foundation Health poll found that Americans are concerned about the price of health care...

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in exchange-traded funds (ETF) dipped in January for the second month in a row to $95.6 billion from $102.1 billion in December.

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the loss of assets in the fourth quarter, hedge funds still gained $16.3 billion in assets in 2002.

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Montana's House State Administration Committee has tabled a bill to extend employees' health benefits to domestic partners.

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US House subcommittee has green lighted a bill that would create personal re-employment accounts of up to $3,000 for jobless Americans.

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union membership last year took its biggest drop since 1995, as the effects of private sector cost cutting caught up with organized labor's...

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eighty-five percent of Californians have never heard of a consumer driven health plan (CDHP), yet many like the plans when they're described.

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Hampshire employee union has raised concerns that Gov. Craig Benson wants to improperly tap a retirement fund account for $32 million...

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In another sign of severe cost pressures plaguing US automakers, Ford Motor Co., is jacking up costs for medical care and prescription drugs...

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - January reversed December's downward spiral in mutual fund flow with net inflows of $14.5 billion for stock and bond funds.

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in exchange-traded funds (ETF) dipped in January for the second month in a row to $95.6 billion from $102.1 billion in December.

February 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the loss of assets in the fourth quarter, hedge funds still gained $16.3 billion in assets in 2002.