SMA Assets Up 29% at YE 2003
February 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Year end 2003 assets held in separately managed accounts were $506.6 billion, up 11% from...
Tag: Investments
Economic Dart-Throwing a Tough Business These Days
February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it comes to predicting how well the economy will do in churning out new...
Jobless Total Shoots Up by 17,000
February 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobless Americans lining up for initial unemployment benefits shot up last week,...
DoL: Q4 Labor Costs Dip 1.3%
February 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US companies' unit labor costs fell 1.3% in the final quarter of 2003, after a...
Mercer: Equities Kept Marching During Q4 2003
February 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity markets continued on the rise during the fourth quarter of 2003 as increasing investor...
REITs Continue Rise in January
February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) continued to rise after finishing well in 2003, as the NAREIT Composite...
Half of Largest Stock Funds Beat S&P 500 Last Year
February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only five of the 10 largest equity funds outperformed the S&P 500 in 2003, but...
Panther Win, Bulls Run?
January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Football fans and stock market pundits alike have a simple explanation for the stock market...
Jobless Claims Take a Dip
January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobless Americans lining up for first-time unemployment benefits dipped slightly last week,...
Employment Cost Up 0.7% in Q4
January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - During the last quarter of 2003, the Employment Cost Index (ECI) rose only 0.7%, the...
Fed Keeps Interest Rate Machine in Idle
January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As it has in recent months, the Federal Reserve shied away Wednesday from changing interest...
Rising Hem Lines in '04 Bodes Well For Markets
January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If one kooky market theory holds true, skirt hemlines rising above the knee could also...
Jobless Queue Shrinks Slightly
January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans lining up for first-time jobless claims was nearly flat last week,...
Bush Official: December Jobs Data Wrong
January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shortly after the US Department of Labor (DoL) reported that the economy had created a...
Jobless Claims Drop Erases Most of Recent Claims Gain
January 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobless Americans lining up for first-time unemployment benefits fell by 11,000 for...
December Job-Creation Prediction: 130,000; DoL Data: 1,000
January 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Encouraged by a decent holiday shopping season, many economists had called for a robust amount...
Jobless Claims Jump for First Time in a Month
January 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The government reported Thursday that the number of jobless Americans applying for initial unemployment benefits...
FTSE All-World Finishes 2003 31% Higher
January 5 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - December's continued rising equity tide helped buoy the FTSE All-World Index to an impressive 31.4%...
Junk Bonds Return Highest Gain Since '91
January 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds investing in junk bonds pulled in $26.7 billion in 2003, AMG Data Services...
Jobless Claims Plummet to Early 2001 Levels
December 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the most positive sign in a long while that the often-faltering economic recovery may...