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March 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Exchange-traded fund (ETF) assets dropped almost 11% last month, caught in the downturn in US markets.

March 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cinergy will offer its 7,500 employees a home PC with subsidized Internet access, the latest in a growing number of employers to extend...

March 26, 2001 - Blue chip stock indices are soaring in a carryover of Friday's rally, with financials, computers, telecoms, oils, and defense issues leading the day.

March 26 2001 - Closing figures for widely followed mutual fund benchmarks:

March 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors fled equity funds in February - but by $9 billion less than fund researcher Lipper initially reported.

March 23, 2001 -- Standard & Poor's Fund Services released 12-month performance data showing that small- and mid-cap funds outpaced large-cap funds in each of the three periods...

March 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kathleen Oswald, 51, the auto industry's highest-ranking woman before resigning last November from DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler division, has joined Ford as executive director, Human...

March 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President George Bush says he won't sign a patient's bill of rights that would encourage unnecessary litigation and drive up insurance premiums, specifically...

March 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forget about stock options. If you want to keep employees, "Show them the money," according to a new survey.

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American workers have a healthy respect for their health benefits, with 45% saying they would prefer better benefits to a raise, and nearly...

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - All Dot Coms are not created equal according to a new study of organizational behavior and employee retention strategies.

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research finds that the average job tenure for women is increasing - at the same time the average male tenure is decreasing,...

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unit investment trusts pulled in another $3.52 billion in February, and now total $7.82 billion according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

March 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors pulled a record amount from US stock mutual funds in February - more than $11 billion - according to Lipper.

March 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants could get a break on their loan accounts, as banks adjust their prime rates to match Tuesday's lowering of the federal funds...

March 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush plans to nominate Ann Laine Combs to be Assistant Secretary of Labor.

March 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey finds cost as the main impediment for two-thirds of small employers that don't offer health coverage, while over half (51%)...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While women are saving at the same rate as men, their average 401(k) account balance was only about half of their male counterparts,...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly three-fourths of human resource professionals still rank controlling health care costs as their number one priority, but interest in expanding employee self-service...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - "Actively disengaged" workers are costing American employers roughly $300 billion a year, according to a new study.