<PAGE>   1
                    As filed with the Securities and Exchange
                           Commission on May 23, 2001
                                                           Registration No. 333-
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             ----------------------


                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ----------------------


                               THE MONY GROUP INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

        Delaware                                     13-3976138
(State or other jurisdiction of            (I.R.S. Employer Identification
incorporation or organization)                           No.)

                                 1740 Broadway
                            New York, New York 10019
                             (Address of Principal
                         Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

                               The MONY Group Inc.
                         Restricted Stock Ownership Plan
                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                               Bart Schwartz, Esq.
                                  1740 Broadway
                            New York, New York 10019
                                 (212) 708-2000
                (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone
               number, including area code, of agent for service)
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                                                CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of securities to be     Amount to be registered     Proposed maximum offering    Proposed maximum aggregate      Amount of
       registered                                               price per share             offering price         registration fee
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<S>                           <C>                         <C>                          <C>                         <C>
Common Stock, par value           1,000,000(1)                    $36.42(2)                 $36,420,000(2)              $9,105
$0.01 per share.
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1 Pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement also registers an
indeterminate number of shares of the Registrant's common stock to be offered or
issued under The MONY Group Inc. Restricted Stock Ownership Plan to prevent
dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or otherwise.

2 Pursuant to Rule 457(h), these prices are estimated solely for the purpose of
calculating the registration fee and are based upon the average of the high and
low sales prices of the Registrant's common stock on the New York Stock Exchange
on May 18, 2001.
<PAGE>   2
                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

         The document(s) containing information specified by Part I of this Form
S-8 Registration Statement (the "Registration Statement") will be sent or given
to participants in the plan listed on the cover of the Registration Statement
(the "Plan") as specified in Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"). Such document(s) are not being filed with the
Commission but constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference
into the Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof), a
prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.




                                       2
<PAGE>   3
                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         The following documents filed with the Commission by The MONY Group
Inc. (the "Company") are incorporated herein by reference and made a part
hereof:

(a)      The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
         31, 2000, filed with the Commission on March 30, 2001;

(b)      The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March
         31, 2001 filed with the Commission on May 17, 1999 pursuant to Section
         13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
         Act");

(c)      All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or
         15(d) of the Exchange Act since December 31, 2000; and

(d)      Description of the Company's capital stock contained in the Company's
         Registration Statement on Form 8-A, File No. 001-14603, filed with the
         Commission on November 6, 1998, including any further amendments or
         reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

         All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been
sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a
document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
to the extent that a statement contained herein (or in any other subsequently
filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
or therein) modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

         Not applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

         The opinion filed herewith as Exhibit 5.1 has been rendered by Bart
Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. Mr. Schwartz
owns shares of common stock of the Company and has options to purchase
additional shares of the Company's common stock. Mr. Schwartz will be eligible
to participate in the Company's Restricted Stock Ownership Plan.

ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

         The Company is a Delaware corporation. Reference is made to Section 145
of the Delaware General Corporation Law as to indemnification by the Company of
its officers and directors. The general effect of such law is to empower a
corporation to indemnify any of its officers and directors against certain
expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person to be indemnified in
connection with certain actions, suits or proceedings (threatened, pending or
completed) if the person to be indemnified acted in good faith and in a manner
he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
<PAGE>   4
         The Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company, as amended by the
Amendment to the Amended and Restated By-Laws (the "By-Laws")(which are
incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit 4.3 and 4.4, respectively to this
Registration Statement), provide for indemnification of any person who was or is
a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or was serving in such
capacity at another entity at the Company's request (each, an "Indemnified
Person"), and is a party to, or is threatened to be made a party to, any
threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether derivative
or not. Indemnification continues as to an Indemnified Person who has ceased to
be a director, officer, employee or agent and inures to the benefit of the
heirs, executors and administrators of an Indemnified Person. The By-Laws also
authorize indemnification for expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments,
fines and amounts paid in settlement, as well as the advancement of expenses to
an Indemnified Person. The indemnification provisions in the By-Laws are
non-exclusive and allow the Company to indemnify by agreement or vote of
stockholders or disinterested directors.

         Article Eighth of the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation (the "Certificate of Incorporation") (which is incorporated by
reference as Exhibit 4.2 to this Registration Statement) provides for the
indemnification of the Company's directors in accordance with the Delaware
General Corporation Law, and includes, as permitted by the Delaware General
Corporation Law, certain limitations on the potential personal liability of
members of the Company's Board of Directors for monetary damages as a result of
actions taken in their capacity as Board members.

         The directors and officers of the Company are covered by insurance
policies indemnifying them against certain liabilities arising under the
Securities Act that might be incurred by them in such capacities.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

         Not Applicable

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS

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<CAPTION>
  Exhibit Number              Description

  <S>                         <C>
         4.1            -     The MONY Group Inc. Restricted Stock Ownership Plan

         4.2            -     Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company dated November 3, 1998
                              (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1,
                              as amended, File No. 333-63835).

         4.3            -     Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the
                              Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, File No. 333-63835).

         4.4            -     Amendment to the Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to
                              Exhibit 3.3 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998,
                              File No. 1-14603).

         5.1            -     Opinion of Bart Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company, as to
                              legality of securities being registered.

        23.1            -     Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

        23.2            -     Consent of Bart Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company (included
                              in Exhibit 5.1).

</TABLE>

                                      II-2



<PAGE>   5
<TABLE>
<S>                    <C>   <C>
        24.1            -     Power of Attorney of the Officers and Directors who signed this Registration Statement set
                              forth on page II-4 hereof.
</TABLE>


ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

         (a)      The undersigned Company hereby undertakes:

         (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

                  (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
         the Securities Act;

                  (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
         after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most
         recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
         aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
         in this Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
         increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total
         dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
         registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated
         maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed
         with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
         changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the
         maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of
         Registration Fee" table in this effective Registration Statement;

                  (iii) to include any material information with respect to the
         plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration
         Statement or any material change to such information in the
         Registration Statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the
Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

         (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a
new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Company pursuant to the indemnification provisions summarized in Item 6
or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by the director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the
opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                      II-3
<PAGE>   6
                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on this 23rd day of May,
2001.

                         THE MONY GROUP INC.


                         By:    /s/ Michael Isor Roth
                             ---------------------------------------------------
                              Name:  Michael Isor Roth
                              Title:  Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
                                      Officer


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears
below hereby constitutes and appoints Richard Daddario, Lee M. Smith and Bart
Schwartz, Esq. or any one of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents, each acting alone, with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any
or all amendments or post-effective amendments to this registration statement
(including without limitation any post-effective amendment pursuant to Rule 462
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended), and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and
each of them, full power an authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to
all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, and hereby ratifies
and confirms all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated on this 23rd day of May, 2001.
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<CAPTION>
                              Signature                                                          Title
                              ---------                                                          -----

                        <S>                                             <C>
                        /s/ Michael Isor Roth                           Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and
                        -----------------------------                   Director (Principal Executive Officer)
                            Michael Isor Roth

                        /s/ Richard Daddario                            Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
                        -----------------------------                   (Principal Financial Officer)
                            Richard Daddario

                        /s/ Larry Cohen                                 Vice President and Controller (Principal Accounting
                        -----------------------------                   Officer)
                            Larry Cohen

                        /s/ Tom Hans Barrett                            Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Tom Hans Barrett

                        /s/ David Lincoln Call                          Director
                        -----------------------------
                            David Lincoln Call

                        /s/ Glenn Robert Durham                         Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Glenn Robert Durham
</TABLE>


                                      II-4
<PAGE>   7
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<CAPTION>
                        <S>                                             <C>
                                                                        Director
                        -----------------------------
                            James Bernard Farley


                        /s/ Samuel Joseph Foti                          President, Chief Operating Officer and Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Samuel Joseph Foti

                        /s/ Robert Holland, Jr.                         Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Robert Holland, Jr.

                        /s/ James Lawrence Johnson                      Director
                        -----------------------------
                            James Lawrence Johnson

                        /s/ Frederick Wilkinson Kanner                  Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Frederick Wilkinson Kanner

                        /s/ Robert Raymond Kiley                        Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Robert Raymond Kiley

                        /s/ Kenneth Marc Levine                         Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and
                        -----------------------------                   Director
                            Kenneth Marc Levine

                        /s/ Jane Cahill Pfeiffer                        Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

                        /s/ Thomas Charles Theobald                     Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Thomas Charles Theobald
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                                      II-5
<PAGE>   8
                                  EXHIBIT INDEX
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<CAPTION>
  Exhibit Number              Description
  --------------              -----------
  <S>                   <C>
       4.1              -     The MONY Group Inc. Restricted Stock Ownership Plan

       4.2              -     Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company dated November 3, 1998
                              (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1,
                              as amended, File No. 333-63835).

       4.3              -     Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the
                              Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, File No. 333-63835).

       4.4              -     Amendment to the Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to
                              Exhibit 3.3 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998,
                              File No. 1-14603).

       5.1              -     Opinion of Bart Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company, as to
                              legality of securities being registered.

      23.1              -     Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

      23.2              -     Consent of Bart Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company (included
                              in Exhibit 5.1).

      24.1              -     Power of Attorney of the Officers and Directors who signed this Registration Statement set
                              forth on page II-4 hereof.
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1
                    As filed with the Securities and Exchange
                           Commission on May 23, 2001
                                                           Registration No. 333-
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             ----------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ----------------------

                               THE MONY GROUP INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

        Delaware                                     13-3976138
(State or other jurisdiction of            (I.R.S. Employer Identification
incorporation or organization)                           No.)

                                 1740 Broadway
                            New York, New York 10019
                             (Address of Principal
                         Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

                               The MONY Group Inc.
                         Restricted Stock Ownership Plan
                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                               Bart Schwartz, Esq.
                                  1740 Broadway
                            New York, New York 10019
                                 (212) 708-2000
                (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone
               number, including area code, of agent for service)
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                                                CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of securities to be     Amount to be registered     Proposed maximum offering    Proposed maximum aggregate      Amount of
       registered                                               price per share             offering price         registration fee
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Common Stock, par value           1,000,000(1)                    $36.42(2)                 $36,420,000(2)              $9,105
$0.01 per share.
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1 Pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement also registers an
indeterminate number of shares of the Registrant's common stock to be offered or
issued under The MONY Group Inc. Restricted Stock Ownership Plan to prevent
dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or otherwise.

2 Pursuant to Rule 457(h), these prices are estimated solely for the purpose of
calculating the registration fee and are based upon the average of the high and
low sales prices of the Registrant's common stock on the New York Stock Exchange
on May 18, 2001.
2
                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

         The document(s) containing information specified by Part I of this Form
S-8 Registration Statement (the "Registration Statement") will be sent or given
to participants in the plan listed on the cover of the Registration Statement
(the "Plan") as specified in Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"). Such document(s) are not being filed with the
Commission but constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference
into the Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof), a
prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

                                       2
3
                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         The following documents filed with the Commission by The MONY Group
Inc. (the "Company") are incorporated herein by reference and made a part
hereof:

(a)      The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
         31, 2000, filed with the Commission on March 30, 2001;

(b)      The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March
         31, 2001 filed with the Commission on May 17, 1999 pursuant to Section
         13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
         Act");

(c)      All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or
         15(d) of the Exchange Act since December 31, 2000; and

(d)      Description of the Company's capital stock contained in the Company's
         Registration Statement on Form 8-A, File No. 001-14603, filed with the
         Commission on November 6, 1998, including any further amendments or
         reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

         All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been
sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a
document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
to the extent that a statement contained herein (or in any other subsequently
filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
or therein) modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

         Not applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

         The opinion filed herewith as Exhibit 5.1 has been rendered by Bart
Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. Mr. Schwartz
owns shares of common stock of the Company and has options to purchase
additional shares of the Company's common stock. Mr. Schwartz will be eligible
to participate in the Company's Restricted Stock Ownership Plan.

ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

         The Company is a Delaware corporation. Reference is made to Section 145
of the Delaware General Corporation Law as to indemnification by the Company of
its officers and directors. The general effect of such law is to empower a
corporation to indemnify any of its officers and directors against certain
expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person to be indemnified in
connection with certain actions, suits or proceedings (threatened, pending or
completed) if the person to be indemnified acted in good faith and in a manner
he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
4
         The Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company, as amended by the
Amendment to the Amended and Restated By-Laws (the "By-Laws")(which are
incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit 4.3 and 4.4, respectively to this
Registration Statement), provide for indemnification of any person who was or is
a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or was serving in such
capacity at another entity at the Company's request (each, an "Indemnified
Person"), and is a party to, or is threatened to be made a party to, any
threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether derivative
or not. Indemnification continues as to an Indemnified Person who has ceased to
be a director, officer, employee or agent and inures to the benefit of the
heirs, executors and administrators of an Indemnified Person. The By-Laws also
authorize indemnification for expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments,
fines and amounts paid in settlement, as well as the advancement of expenses to
an Indemnified Person. The indemnification provisions in the By-Laws are
non-exclusive and allow the Company to indemnify by agreement or vote of
stockholders or disinterested directors.

         Article Eighth of the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation (the "Certificate of Incorporation") (which is incorporated by
reference as Exhibit 4.2 to this Registration Statement) provides for the
indemnification of the Company's directors in accordance with the Delaware
General Corporation Law, and includes, as permitted by the Delaware General
Corporation Law, certain limitations on the potential personal liability of
members of the Company's Board of Directors for monetary damages as a result of
actions taken in their capacity as Board members.

         The directors and officers of the Company are covered by insurance
policies indemnifying them against certain liabilities arising under the
Securities Act that might be incurred by them in such capacities.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

         Not Applicable

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS
Exhibit Number              Description
4.1            -     The MONY Group Inc. Restricted Stock Ownership Plan

         4.2            -     Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company dated November 3, 1998
                              (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1,
                              as amended, File No. 333-63835).

         4.3            -     Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the
                              Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, File No. 333-63835).

         4.4            -     Amendment to the Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to
                              Exhibit 3.3 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998,
                              File No. 1-14603).

         5.1            -     Opinion of Bart Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company, as to
                              legality of securities being registered.

        23.1            -     Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

        23.2            -     Consent of Bart Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company (included
                              in Exhibit 5.1).
II-2
5
24.1            -     Power of Attorney of the Officers and Directors who signed this Registration Statement set
                              forth on page II-4 hereof.
ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

         (a)      The undersigned Company hereby undertakes:

         (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

                  (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
         the Securities Act;

                  (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
         after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most
         recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
         aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
         in this Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
         increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total
         dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
         registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated
         maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed
         with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
         changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the
         maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of
         Registration Fee" table in this effective Registration Statement;

                  (iii) to include any material information with respect to the
         plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration
         Statement or any material change to such information in the
         Registration Statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the
Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

         (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a
new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Company pursuant to the indemnification provisions summarized in Item 6
or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by the director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the
opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on this 23rd day of May,
2001.

                         THE MONY GROUP INC.

                         By:    /s/ Michael Isor Roth
                             ---------------------------------------------------
                              Name:  Michael Isor Roth
                              Title:  Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
                                      Officer

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears
below hereby constitutes and appoints Richard Daddario, Lee M. Smith and Bart
Schwartz, Esq. or any one of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents, each acting alone, with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any
or all amendments or post-effective amendments to this registration statement
(including without limitation any post-effective amendment pursuant to Rule 462
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended), and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and
each of them, full power an authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to
all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, and hereby ratifies
and confirms all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated on this 23rd day of May, 2001.
Signature                                                          Title
                              ---------                                                          -----
/s/ Michael Isor Roth                           Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and
                        -----------------------------                   Director (Principal Executive Officer)
                            Michael Isor Roth

                        /s/ Richard Daddario                            Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
                        -----------------------------                   (Principal Financial Officer)
                            Richard Daddario

                        /s/ Larry Cohen                                 Vice President and Controller (Principal Accounting
                        -----------------------------                   Officer)
                            Larry Cohen

                        /s/ Tom Hans Barrett                            Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Tom Hans Barrett

                        /s/ David Lincoln Call                          Director
                        -----------------------------
                            David Lincoln Call

                        /s/ Glenn Robert Durham                         Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Glenn Robert Durham
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Director
                        -----------------------------
                            James Bernard Farley

                        /s/ Samuel Joseph Foti                          President, Chief Operating Officer and Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Samuel Joseph Foti

                        /s/ Robert Holland, Jr.                         Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Robert Holland, Jr.

                        /s/ James Lawrence Johnson                      Director
                        -----------------------------
                            James Lawrence Johnson

                        /s/ Frederick Wilkinson Kanner                  Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Frederick Wilkinson Kanner

                        /s/ Robert Raymond Kiley                        Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Robert Raymond Kiley

                        /s/ Kenneth Marc Levine                         Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and
                        -----------------------------                   Director
                            Kenneth Marc Levine

                        /s/ Jane Cahill Pfeiffer                        Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

                        /s/ Thomas Charles Theobald                     Director
                        -----------------------------
                            Thomas Charles Theobald
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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number              Description
  --------------              -----------
4.1              -     The MONY Group Inc. Restricted Stock Ownership Plan

       4.2              -     Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company dated November 3, 1998
                              (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1,
                              as amended, File No. 333-63835).

       4.3              -     Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the
                              Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, File No. 333-63835).

       4.4              -     Amendment to the Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to
                              Exhibit 3.3 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998,
                              File No. 1-14603).

       5.1              -     Opinion of Bart Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company, as to
                              legality of securities being registered.

      23.1              -     Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

      23.2              -     Consent of Bart Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company (included
                              in Exhibit 5.1).

      24.1              -     Power of Attorney of the Officers and Directors who signed this Registration Statement set
                              forth on page II-4 hereof.