End of Cyclical Bull Market Near, S&P Asserts
October 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's revealed Monday that the performance of US equity funds in the third...
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September Job Creation Falls Short
October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's job-creation machine was weaker than expected in September as the unemployment rate held...
Index Constituent Return Bump Declining
September 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Owners of equities being added to a market index don't get nearly the return "bump"...
August Job Picture Brightens
September 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Labor Department (DoL) officials Friday painted a more upbeat picture of the domestic job...
Stock Funds Add Almost $10 Billion in July
August 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors added $9.46 billion to US stock mutual funds in July, a slight falloff from...
Number of Insured Increases, Income Remains Level
August 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of people with health insurance coverage rose slightly from 2002 to 2003, while...
State Street: Investor Confidence Increases in August
August 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investor confidence went up in August, due in part to investments in construction, air freight,...
S&P Reverts to Primary Exchange Pricing
August 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After testing the use of closing prices from the American Stock Exchange for 12 NASDAQ-listed...
S&P Puts Out Index Float Adjustment Info Schedule
August 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's has released a schedule on when it will put out more information...
Fed Funds Rate Up Quarter Point
August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised its target for the federal funds rate by...
Job Market Tanks in July
August 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The all-important domestic job market - long considered a prime engine of the US economy...
ICC: Institutional Portfolios Give Back 0.1% in Q2
July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investors, including corporate and public pension funds, as measured by the median master trust,...
Ryan Departs Ryan Labs
July 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ronald J. Ryan has departed the firm he founded and that bore his name, leaving...
Russell Reconstituting Investment Indexes
July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investment Group is preparing a rollout of its new official membership list for the...
Fed Hikes Federal Funds Rate Up a Quarter Point
June 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to raise its target for the federal funds...
ICI: ETFs Up in May
June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) added more assets in May, swelling by more than $4 billion for...
UITs Plummet in May
June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Asset flows into unit investment trusts (UIT) plunged in May.
Economy Watchers Glowing After Plentiful May Job Creation
June 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Domestic employment market watchers got lots to smile about Friday when the government announced that...
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Labor Productivity Up Across the Globe
June 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global labor productivity growth was 1.8% for the 1995-2002 period, up from only 1% in...
Incomes, Savings Rise in April
May 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American workers earned - and saved - more in April, according to a government report.