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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...

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,...

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Younger workers are often hardest hit by a tight job market, according to USAToday.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

January 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of public sector retirement plans, who are clients of Nationwide Retirement Solutions, will be able to offer participants an online education and...

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the tendrils of the Enron debacle continue to expand, President Bush took steps to fill two vacancies on the Securities and Exchange...

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a slow December, a weak equity market and the events of September 11, a record amount of new money flowed into mutual...

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US economy may have been beset with massive layoffs in recent months, but the demand for skilled foreign workers remains strong, according...

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The terrorists who attacked the US on September 11 have left yet another reminder of that day's events - this time in the...

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a financial crunch that has brought about some 15,000 layoffs - and a first quarter loss of $1.26 billion, Merrill Lynch has...

January 22, 2002 - New York City-area hiring managers - particularly those at mid-to-large sized companies - are optimistic about the prospects of the region's job market, a...

January 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the economic slump, the majority of companies have made no changes to their sign-on bonus program, a survey finds.