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December Flows Trickle into Stock Funds

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock funds attracted $3.4 billion in new money in December, a mere trickle compared to the $15.3 billion worth of inflows in November,...
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Easing Interest Cycle Grinds to a Halt

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Open Market Committee decided to leave the Fed funds interest rate unchanged at 1.75%, reasoning that the outlook for economic recovery...
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2002 Bonuses to be Skimpier

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This year, executives shouldn't expect the fat bonus paychecks that they've become accustomed to, a consulting group survey found.
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VC Industry Beset By Woes

January 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With one-time institutional backers staying on the sidelines, the US venture capital market saw the amount invested in US companies plunging 65% to...
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Aggressive Investors Staying the Course

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six in 10 investors at a San Francisco money manager say they're not going to backpedal from a portfolio with aggressive growth, small-cap,...
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Dow Jones to Prepare NYSE Indexes

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes has agreed to develop a group of indexes for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Dow Jones announced. The first...
Benefits |

New Online HR Course from Cornell

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human Resources professionals may now brush up on their job skills through a new online class from Cornell University.
Benefits |

Ex-Enronees Find New Friends

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It may offer small solace to thousands of laid-off workers across the country, but politicians can't seem to line up fast enough to...
Benefits |

Nervous Techies Oppose New Security

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Technical workers may be more nervous in the workplace than they were before the September 11 attacks, but they're not nervous enough to...
Benefits |

BellSouth Settles Age Discrimination Suit

January 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BellSouth Telecommunications has agreed to pay $200,000 and enhanced retirement benefits to a former worker, who claimed she was fired because of her...
Investing |

ETFs Jump 5.2% in December

January 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were $82.99 billion at the end of December 2001, up 5.2% from the end...
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Fed Moves Move Nasdaq More

January 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stocks on the Nasdaq market react most emphatically to surprise Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes or when the central bankers make less of a...
Investing |

Jobless Claims Dip Again

January 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of first-time applications for unemployment insurance continued its downward trend in the week ending January 19, according to data from the...
Deals and People |

GoldK COO Departs

January 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GoldK Chief Operating Officer Radu Pasovschi has stepped down, the online retirement services firm announced Thursday.