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March 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and participants may have fed a growing interest in passive benchmarks last year, resulting in a record year for Frank Russell's...

March 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Red Herring Communications, a media firm specializing in technology and Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (MSCI), a provider of global indices and benchmark-related...

March 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of America's mutual funds fell to $6.92 trillion in February, from $6.97 trillion in the previous month, according to data...

March 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thomas Hughes, chief operating officer of Deutsche Bank Ag's asset management business has been appointed global head of asset management.

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 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health-care costs were up by about 30% in 2001 compared to seven years ago.

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 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number of Americans say that getting health care they want is getting harder - mostly because of cost, according to a...

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-The federal department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a number of changes to its health privacy regulations.

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Lucent Technologies workers have filed suit against their employer - and their union - accusing both of misleading them into accepting early...

March 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many companies that sunk large sums into human resources technology haven't yet seen the move pay off because of inefficiencies in their ongoing...

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 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Minority workers have filed a $7.4 billion lawsuit against General Motors Corp. (GM), alleging they were racially and sexually harassed at two Michigan...

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the 42 states with external review programs in place for the resolution of health plan disputes, decisions are made in favor of...

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The profile of the US worker is changing as the likelihood of being employed by larger companies increases, data from the US Small...

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) - The 1,600 institutional investors who have money in Evergreen Investments' value funds have a new portfolio manager directing their investments.

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- CIGNA Retirement and Investment Services has formed the Participant Communications Board, an independent organization dedicated to teaching retirement readiness.