REITs Increase 7.34% in the Second Quarter
November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) continue to shine on throughout 2003, as the NAREIT Composite...
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Jobless Claims Queue Continues to Shrink
October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The queue of Americans for filing first-time unemployment benefits claims continued to get shorter last...
Employment Cost Continue to Rise in Q3
October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marching in step with the increase in benefits costs, the Employment Cost Index (ECI) for...
Fed Holds Steady on Rates
October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is keeping its hand on the...
UITs Enjoy 11.5% September Hike
October 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unit investment trusts (UIT) enjoyed a strong September showing with an 11.5% hike in total...
Jobless Claims Drop for Third Straight Week
October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a sign that the US employment picture may finally be beginning to stabilize, the...
US Mass Layoffs Continue Dropping
October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a bright sign for the nation's employment picture, the number of mass layoffs carried...
Strategic: Equity and Balanced Funds Take in $25 Billion in September
October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Inflows to equity and balanced-type funds neared $25 billion in September.
Jobless Claims Down Again
October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment benefits fell for the second straight week...
Jobless Queue Shortest Since February
October 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The queue of unemployed Americans applying for first-time jobless benefits last week was the shortest...
Surprise! Companies Add 57,000 Jobs in September
October 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time since the beginning of 2003, US companies actually added jobs in...
Lagging Isabel Claims Boost Jobless Numbers
October 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hurricane Isabel continued to bedevil the jobless claims recordkeeping system as lagging claims from mid-September...
DoL Reports Layoffs, Hirings Down
October 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reducing layoffs may have put the brakes on the recession in 2002, but a lack...
MSCI All Country Index Returns 0.48% in September
October 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The MSCI All Country World Index Free ended September 0.48% higher.
Goldman: DB Rebalancing Waits for Q4
September 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While defined benefit plans' equity holdings remain slightly overweighted, don't expect a dramatic rebalancing just...
Isabel's Power Outages Drive Down Jobless Totals
September 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The good news in Thursday's government jobless report was that the number of Americans seeking...
State Street Associates Unveils Institutional Confidence Measure
September 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Associates has pulled back the curtain on the State Street Investor Confidence Index...
Jobless Claims Total Finally Heads South
September 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US job market watchers finally got a positive sign from the government's weekly unemployment claims...
Fed: No Rate Action Needed
September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal Reserve interest-rate cutters may have sore shoulders from their recent axe wielding to drive...
A Bad US Job Market Gets Worse
September 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An already bad jobless picture got even worse last week as the queue for filing...