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8/27/2010
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Munder, following the merger of its Munder Technology fund into the Munder Growth Opportunities fund this past April, makes plans to merge its Munder Energy and Munder Healthcare funds into the Growth Opportunities fund later this year…
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8/27/2010
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ALPS Advisors launches the Alerian MLP ETF, sub-advised by Arrow Investment Advisors and tracking the performance of an index comprised of 25 energy infrastructure MLPs…
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8/27/2010
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Van Eck launches the Van Eck Market Vectors India Small Cap ETF…
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8/27/2010
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The Oppenheimer Main Street Opportunity fund will change its name to the Oppenheimer Main Street Select fund and will reduce the number of stocks held by the fund from approximately 65 to 35, as well as change its strategy to focus mainly on large cap domestic companies, and the Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap fund will change its name to the Oppenheimer Main Street Small & Mid Cap fund and alter its strategy accordingly, investing in companies having a market cap in the range of the Russell 2500 Index…
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8/20/2010
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Dimensional Fund Advisors files the DFA Commodity Strategy fund, investing in commodity-linked derivative instruments, including structured notes, swap agreements, and futures contracts on individual commodities or commodity indices, and fixed income investment opportunities…
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8/20/2010
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On the heels of last week’s launch of its Emerging Global Shares INDXX India Infrastructure Index ETF, ALPS Advisors registers the ALPS/Kotak India Growth fund to be sub-advised by Kotak Mahindra (UK) Limited, a part of the diversified financial services company Kotak Mahindra Group based in Mumbai, India…
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8/20/2010
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Columbia funds, Columbia Acorn funds, and RiverSource funds, including the Seligman and Threadneedle branded funds, make changes in an effort to integrate the fund families including reorganizing funds and classes, renaming funds and classes, liquidating funds, closing classes, updating sales load fee schedules and waiver policies, and modifying minimum investment amounts…
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8/20/2010
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Nelson Louie re-joins Credit Suisse to help manage the Credit Suisse Commodity Return Strategy fund, replacing Andrew Karsh on the portfolio management team to the fund…
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8/20/2010
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Global X registers the Global X Gold Explorers ETF, while the Global X Gold Miners ETF filed in February of this year still awaits launch even as the Global X Silver Miners and Global X Copper Miners ETFs, registered at the same time, launched in April…
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8/13/2010
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The Vanguard Explorer, Vanguard U.S. Value, and Vanguard Market Neutral funds have restructured their investment advisory teams, removing AXA Rosenberg Investment Management as an investment advisor...
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8/13/2010
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June, July, and August (to date) have seen seventy-four funds modify their advisory fees...
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8/13/2010
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The Principal International Value I fund replaces AXA Rosenberg Investment Management on its sub-advisory team, with Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss...
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8/13/2010
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WisdomTree and Mellon Capital Management launched the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt ETF...
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8/13/2010
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American Funds registers the American Funds Mortgage Fund and the American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York...
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8/6/2010
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ALPS and RiverFront launch the RiverFront Moderate Growth, RiverFront Moderate Growth & Income, and the RiverFront Long-Term Growth & Income funds...
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8/6/2010
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Also, Schwab launches the Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF, Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF, and the Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF...
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8/6/2010
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BlackRock files an exemptive order for a series of long-short index ETFs, with the initial fund expected to use the MSCI USA Barra Earnings Yield Index as its underlying index...
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8/6/2010
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Schwab is reopening its U.S. Treasury Money fund to new investors...
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7/30/2010
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Effective July 26, 2010, the Robeco Boston Partners Long/Short Equity fund is closed to new investors due to concerns that a significant increase in the size of the fund may adversely affect the implementation of its strategy...
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7/30/2010
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Grail Advisors and RiverFront Investment Group team up to manage the newly filed RiverFront Strategic Income actively managed ETF and Janus and Perkins launch the Janus Perkins Value Plus Income fund...
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7/30/2010
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Alina Chiew and Gabriella Antici replace Maria Gordon (who has left Goldman Sachs to join PIMCO) on the teams managing the Goldman Sachs BRIC and Goldman Sachs Emerging Markets Equity funds...
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7/30/2010
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Putnam removes and/or modifies the redemption fees of close to fifty of their funds...
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7/30/2010
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The Firsthand Technology Value fund is reborn as a closed-end fund (SiVest's open-end fund is reorganized into a Business Development Company)...
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7/23/2010
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Firsthand Funds is reorganizing Firsthand Technology Value fund into a business development company...
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7/23/2010
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AARP liquidates its four asset allocation funds and its money market fund...
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7/23/2010
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Gregory L. Powell replaces David Yuen on the portfolio management team of the Vanguard Windsor fund...
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7/23/2010
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DoubleLine Advisors registers the DoubleLine Multi-Asset Growth fund, which may make “any investment or use any investment strategy consistent with applicable law”…
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7/23/2010
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AllianceBernstein plans an active ETF series, with the initial fund being the AllianceBernstein Active ETF – U.S. Quantitative Strategy...
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7/16/2010
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Pending shareholder approval, the Oak Value fund plans to reorganize into the RS Capital Appreciation fund, a new series of RS Investment Trust...
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7/16/2010
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Legg Mason's Western Asset Money Market, Western Asset Municipal Money Market, Western Asset California Municipal Money Market, Western Asset New York Municipal Money Market, and Western Asset Massachusetts Municipal Money Market funds plan to liquidate, with the liquidation coordinated to coincide with the launch of alternate investment products for cash sweep clients and customers of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, for which the funds currently serve as sweep vehicles...
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7/16/2010
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Credit Suisse proposes a reorganization of the Credit Suisse Large Cap Value, Credit Suisse Large Cap Growth, and Credit Suisse Mid-Cap Core funds into the Credit Suisse Large Cap Blend fund...
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7/16/2010
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AdvisorShares registers the AdvisorShares Active Bear ETF taking short-term positions in companies in trouble and also launched the AdvisorShares Mars Hill Global Relative Value ETF last week (an active fund-of-funds ETF that will take equal long and short positions in major global regions)...
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7/9/2010
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Raymond Humphrey (formerly with Neuberger Berman) joins the management team of the Hartford Inflation Plus fund...
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7/9/2010
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The T. Rowe Price Retirement target-date series adds the T. Rowe Price Real Assets and T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves funds to the list of underlying funds in which each fund can invest (also, the T. Rowe Price Short-Term Income fund, which currently serves as an underlying fund of the Retirement funds, will focus more of its investments on securities that are indexed to inflation and has been renamed the T. Rowe Price Inflation Focused Bond fund)...
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7/9/2010
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Effective July 1, 2010, Nuveen reduces management fees and modifies fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangements...
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7/9/2010
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The Fidelity Institutional Money Market Treasury, Fidelity Institutional Money Market Treasury Only, and Fidelity Cash Management Treasury funds re-open to new accounts...
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7/9/2010
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ALPS Advisors and Emerging Global Advisors launches the Emerging Global Shares Indxx India Small Cap ETF (originally registered as a mid cap ETF)...
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7/2/2010
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State Street Global registers the SPDR S&P Global Natural Resources ETF…
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7/2/2010
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Deutsche Bank acquires XShares Advisors, the investment advisor to the TDX Independence funds, which will now be organized as an entity within Deutsche Bank and rebranded as DBX Strategic Advisors…
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7/2/2010
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Vanguard adds an ETF share class to the Vanguard 500 fund and registers nineteen new funds, all of which will also offer ETF shares: three tracking S&P municipal bond indexes, seven tracking Russell indexes, eight equity funds tracking the S&P 500, MidCap 400 and SmallCap 600 and/or their growth and value segments, and one international fund tracking the S&P Global ex-US Property Index…
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7/2/2010
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BlackRock launches the BlackRock World Gold fund…
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7/2/2010
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Michael F. Garrett becomes the sole portfolio manager of the Vanguard GNMA fund…
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6/25/2010
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Grail enlists DoubleLine as sub-advisor for its proposed Grail DoubleLine Emerging Markets Fixed Income ETF...
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6/25/2010
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Global X Management launches the Global X Brazil Mid Cap ETF...
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6/25/2010
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Build America Bond funds registered to date...
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6/25/2010
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Van Eck registers the Market Vectors MLP ETF...
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6/25/2010
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Corporate High Yield and Municipal High Yield Bond funds registered this year to date...
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6/18/2010
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BlackRock registers the BlackRock Build America Bond fund, Nuveen readies the Nuveen Build America Bond Opportunity fund and Invesco PowerShares Capital Management gets set to offer the PowerShares Intermediate Build America Bond ETF...
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6/18/2010
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ProShares files 17 new ETFs...
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6/18/2010
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Effective June 14, 2010, the management fees of the Schwab International Equity ETF, Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF, Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF, Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF, Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF, and the Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF have been reduced...
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6/18/2010
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Putnam proposes the Putnam Multi-Cap Core fund...
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6/11/2010
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Effective August 2010, Allianz plans a corporate reorganization that will transfer the advisory businesses of Nicholas-Applegate and Oppenheimer Capital to Allianz Global Investors Capital (this is to be the last step in the full integration of these businesses under a single name)...
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6/11/2010
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Fidelity closes Class B shares to new accounts and additional purchases by existing shareholders (also, the linked Fidelity funds change Class A CDSCs and modify their Letter of Intent policies)...
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6/11/2010
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Van Eck agrees to limit total operating expenses from exceeding 0.65% for the Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF, 0.65% for the Market Vectors Poland ETF, and 0.76% for the Market Vectors Vietnam ETF...
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6/11/2010
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Deutsche Investment Management Americas announces the transition of members of its Quantitative Strategies Group out of the advisor and into a separate investment advisory firm named QS Investors, and also announces the transition of its Global Equity Team out of the advisor and into a separate investment advisory firm named Global Thematic Partners...
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6/11/2010
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Vanguard registers the Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 fund...
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6/4/2010
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The Old Mutual GlobalShares FTSE Emerging Markets ETF has voluntarily agreed to cap total annual fund operating expenses (other than excluded expenses) from exceeding 0.25% of average daily net assets for the period June 1, 2010 through May 31, 2011 (this cap is in addition to a contractual cap of 0.39% of average net assets until January 31, 2012)...
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6/4/2010
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The Vanguard Convertible Securities fund is now open to new accounts for personal investors, and shareholders are no longer subject to a $25,000 annual investment limit...
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6/4/2010
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Charles Schwab Investment Management announces that Jeffrey Mortimer, Chief Investment Officer of CSIM, Schwab Funds, Laudus Funds, and Schwab ETFs, will leave the firm effective July 2, 2010 (Randy Merk, President and Chief Executive Officer of CSIM, will serve as Chief Investment Officer until a replacement is found)...
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6/4/2010
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Invesco PowerShares launches the PowerShares International Corporate Bond fund and Bridgeway Capital Management launches the Bridgeway Small-Cap Momentum fund...
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6/4/2010
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The Russell LifePoint funds modify allocations and add the Russell Commodity Strategies fund (which incepted April 1, 2010) as an underlying fund...
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5/21/2010
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State Street Global Advisors launches the SPDR Barclays Capital International Corporate Bond ETF...
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5/21/2010
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Several Goldman Sachs funds register IR shares...
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5/21/2010
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Pax World launches the ESG Shares North America Sustainability Index ETF and ESG Shares FTSE Environmental Technologies (ET50) Index ETF, with plans to launch the ESG Shares Europe Asia Pacific Sustainability Index ETF on May 25th...
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5/21/2010
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Northern Trust makes plans to file ETFs...
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5/21/2010
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IndexIQ launches the IndexIQ Taiwan Small Cap ETF...
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5/14/2010
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The BlackRock Global Growth, Invesco Dynamics, and Invesco Capital Development funds announce that they may invest in Master Limited Partnerships…
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5/14/2010
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Fidelity launches the Fidelity Corporate Bond fund, investing at least 80% of assets in investment-grade corporate bonds and other corporate debt securities, and repurchase agreements for those securities…
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5/14/2010
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SteelPath Fund Advisors launches three new funds investing primarily in Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), the SteelPath MLP Select 40, SteelPath MLP Income, and the SteelPath MLP Alpha funds…
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5/14/2010
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Oakmark Equity and Income fund closes to new investor purchases through most financial services companies, with certain exceptions…
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5/14/2010
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L. Baxter Hines joins the portfolio management teams of the Allianz NFJ Dividend Value and Allianz NFJ International Value funds…
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5/7/2010
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DoubleLine Capital launches the DoubleLine Total Return Bond and DoubleLine Emerging Markets Fixed Income funds...
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5/7/2010
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Five PowerShares ETFs change names and indexes: PowerShares Autonomic Balanced Growth NFA Global Asset, PowerShares Autonomic Balanced NFA Global Asset, PowerShares Autonomic Growth NFA Global Asset, PowerShares Value Line Industry Rotation, and PowerShares Value Line Timeliness Select...
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5/7/2010
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Dreyfus money market funds modify their strategies to comply with the SEC's recently amended regulations with respect to money market funds...
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5/7/2010
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Julie Van Cleave replaces Marc L. Baylin as the portfolio manager of the Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation and MassMutual Premier Capital Appreciation funds, and becomes co-portfolio manager of the Oppenheimer Equity fund...
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5/7/2010
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Allianz Funds has approved an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization pursuant to which each CCM fund (Allianz CCM Capital Appreciation, Allianz CCM Focused Growth, Allianz CCM Mid-Cap, and Allianz CCM Emerging Companies) would be reorganized with and into a corresponding, newly-created series of The Managers Funds...
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4/30/2010
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Equinox Fund Management launches the MutualHedge Frontier Legends fund...
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4/30/2010
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John Browning is no longer responsible for the day-to-day management of many PowerShares ETFs...
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4/30/2010
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The Claymore/Delta Global Shipping Index ETF is set to liquidate...
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4/30/2010
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The Janus Perkins Small Cap Value fund closes to new investors...
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4/30/2010
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PADCO Advisors II, Inc. plans to liquidate many of its leveraged and inverse ETFs...
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4/23/2010
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New fund registrations for April (to date) top 100, including funds offered by Virtus, UBS, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Company, MassMutual, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Delaware, Oppenheimer, South Korean's Mirae (US investment subsidiary), and ETFs from Global X, Russell, Rafferty and Schwab...
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4/23/2010
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Effective on March 26, 2010, the American International Group, Inc. transaction closed, selling a portion of its asset management business, including PineBridge and Brazos Capital Management, LP, to Bridge Partners, LP...
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4/23/2010
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On April 14, 2010, a transaction was announced whereby SkyBridge Capital will acquire certain businesses of Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC...
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4/23/2010
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Dreyfus and Eaton Vance launch alternative funds (Dreyfus Dynamic Alternatives fund and Eaton Vance Commodity Strategy fund), and Putnam launches a fund of funds (Putnam Global Sector fund investing in eight Putnam global sector funds)...
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4/16/2010
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Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Company registered the DGHM Small Cap Value fund...
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4/16/2010
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PIMCO launches the first actively managed equity strategy fund in its new PIMCO Equity Series, the PIMCO EqS Pathfinder fund, which is set to be managed by Anne Gudefin and Charles Lahr (previously of Franklin Templeton)...
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4/16/2010
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Twelve Bank of Hawaii Pacific Capital funds file regarding "Fair Fund" distributions expected to take place in the second quarter of 2010 (BISYS paid a civil penalty and other amounts into a “Fair Fund” established by the SEC pursuant to the settlement regarding the SEC’s investigation related to BISYS’s past payment of certain marketing and other expenses with respect to certain of its mutual fund clients)...
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4/16/2010
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Keeley launches the Keeley Alternative Value fund sub-advised by Broadmark Asset Management...
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4/9/2010
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ProFunds launches the Ultra NASDAQ Biotechnology ProShares and UltraShort NASDAQ Biotechnology ProShares ETFs (originally registered with the SEC back in June of 2007)...
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4/9/2010
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Eaton Vance launches the Eaton Vance Commodity Strategy fund to be sub-advised by Armored Wolf, LLC...
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4/9/2010
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Invesco PowerShares launches nine small-cap sector-focused ETFs (originally registered with the SEC back in January of 2010)...
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4/9/2010
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BlackRock registers four new funds in its LifePath target-date series (2025, 2035, 2045, and 2055)...
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4/9/2010
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Russell files ETFs...
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4/2/2010
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13D Management registered the 13D Activist fund investing in common stocks of U.S. companies that are the target of shareholder activism...
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4/2/2010
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John Schniedwind leaves the management team of the American Century Income & Growth, American Century Utilities Income, and American Century International Core Equity funds...
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4/2/2010
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Evergreen money market funds incorporate the SEC's recently adopted amendments to its rules relating to money market funds...
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4/2/2010
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Dreyfus money market funds modify policies on borrowing and lending...
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4/2/2010
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Harbor Capital Advisors launches the Harbor Unconstrained Bond fund sub-advised by PIMCO and Jensen Investment Management launches the Jensen Value fund...
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3/26/2010
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The Legg Mason Target Retirement series will lower contractual total operating expense caps through December 31, 2011...
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3/26/2010
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The Hilliard-Lyons Government fund makes plans to reorganize into the Federated Government Cash Series...
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3/26/2010
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Effective April 5, 2010, Putnam's fixed income and absolute return funds will remove the initial sales charge on purchases of Class A and M shares of $500,000 or more and many Putnam funds modify their Rights of Accumulation policy...
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3/26/2010
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Although the DWS Target series may invest directly in common stocks, the funds file their current intention to invest their equity portions primarily in ETFs...
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3/26/2010
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Invesco registers the Invesco Emerging Market Local Currency Debt fund, and while the fund anticipates being largely invested in investment grade securities, it may invest up to 100% of its total assets in non-investment grade securities...
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3/19/2010
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Effective April 1, 2010, Lord Abbett funds will cap purchases of Class C shares, as well as reduce certain municipal funds' annual service fee that financial intermediaries may receive (on top of the sales concession) from "up to 1.00%" to "up to 0.75%," which starts to accrue twelve months after purchase...
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3/19/2010
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The PIMCO Income Strategy and PIMCO Income Strategy II (formerly PIMCO Floating Rate Income and PIMCO Floating Rate Strategy, respectively) are offering more Common shares and in the process will shift their strategies to take advantage of fixed rate security opportunities...
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3/19/2010
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Vanguard launches the Vanguard Explorer Value fund...
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3/19/2010
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JPMorgan registers two new funds: JPMorgan Research Equity Long/Short fund and JPMorgan Alternative Strategies fund...
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3/12/2010
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Pending shareholder approval, the Eagle Money Market and Eagle Municipal Money Market funds will liquidate...
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3/12/2010
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Dreyfus launched the Dreyfus Dynamic Alternatives fund seeking returns that approximate or exceed those of a diversified portfolio of hedge funds included in the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index...
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3/12/2010
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JPMorgan plans an actively managed ETF and two index ETFs...
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3/12/2010
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Eaton Vance plans actively managed ETFs...
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3/12/2010
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The Boston Partners Mid Cap Value fund makes plans to reorganize into the John Hancock Disciplined Mid Cap Value fund, with Robeco Investment Management staying on as sub-advisor...
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3/5/2010
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Pending shareholder approval, the Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate fund will convert from a closed-end investment company to an open-end investment company...
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3/5/2010
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The PIMCO Government Limited Maturity Strategy and the PIMCO Prime Limited Maturity Strategy ETFs extend maturity limits: the Government ETF may only invest in securities that mature within three years from the date of purchase (previously, two years) and the Prime ETF may only invest in U.S. dollar-denominated securities that mature within 18 months from the date of purchase (previously, 397 days) or floating rate U.S. government agency securities that mature within two years from the date of purchase (which has not changed)...
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3/5/2010
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AARP Financial Inc. and AARP Services, Inc. are exploring strategic options for the linked AARP funds with a view of expanding the range of financial services and products available to fund shareholders and other AARP members (such options could include a revised operating structure for the funds with a continued connection to AARP or the merger of the funds into other funds with no connection to AARP)...
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3/5/2010
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As a part of a long-term business strategy, the Bank of Hawaii will be further transitioning its asset management activities to an “open architecture” investment process that will provide a wider range of investment options, and accordingly, the Asset Management Group of Bank of Hawaii believes that a substantial portion of the assets of the Pacific Capital funds are likely to migrate to other investment products, and thus it would be in the best interests of the funds’ shareholders to close the trust...
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3/5/2010
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Ten Vanguard sector funds adopt new target indexes...
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2/26/2010
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Turner has proposed the Turner Global Opportunities fund (a focused fund with plans to hold between 20-30 securities and invest without strict sector or industry constraints) and has also made plans to liquidate the Turner Midcap Equity fund this coming April...
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2/26/2010
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SSgA (with Nuveen sub-advising) filed: ten municipal bond ETFs tracking the indexes of Barclays Capital, one taxable municipal bond ETF tracking the Barclays Capital Build America Bond Index, and one high-yield municipal bond ETF tracking the S&P Municipal High Yield Index...
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2/26/2010
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The Federated MDT All Cap Core and Federated MDT Small Cap Core funds will no longer exclude domestic bank instruments from industry concentration limitations in keeping with the SEC staff's view that such instruments should not be excluded from industry concentration tests (previously, only foreign bank instruments had been included in such calculations)...
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2/26/2010
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Effective March 1, 2010, Frontegra Asset Management will be replaced by IronBridge Capital Management as the primary investment advisor to the Frontegra IronBridge Small Cap and Frontegra IronBridge SMID funds (IronBridge has been serving as sub-advisor to these funds since their inception)...
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2/26/2010
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Turner Investment Partners replaces Federated MDTA on the sub-advisory team of the RiverSource Partners Small Cap Value fund...
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2/19/2010
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As part of a long-standing estate and business succession plan established by James E. Stowers, Jr. (the founder of American Century Investments), Co-Chairman Richard W. Brown has recently succeeded Mr. Stowers as trustee of a trust that holds a greater-than-25% voting interest in American Century Companies...
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2/19/2010
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Security Benefit Corporation (the parent company of PADCO Advisors, Inc., PADCO Advisors II, Inc. and Security Investors, LLC) and certain of SBC’s affiliates entered into agreements with an investor group led by Guggenheim Partners, LLC, under which a special purpose vehicle owned by the investors and managed by an affiliate of Guggenheim would receive a 100% ownership stake in SBC (acquiring control of SBC and its affiliates, including the advisor to Security, SBL, and Rydex funds)...
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2/19/2010
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The last twelve months in new registrations of mid-cap funds...
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2/19/2010
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Van Eck launches the Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF and Invesco PowerShares launches the PowerShares CEF Income Composite ETF tracking the S-Network Composite Closed-End Fund Index (an index comprised of a global universe of U.S.-listed closed-end funds)...
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2/12/2010
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Van Kampen Retirement Strategy funds have modified their investment strategies by providing a target allocation range among various asset classes, rather than a specific target percentage...
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2/12/2010
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ProFunds launches eight new ProShares ETFs...
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2/12/2010
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T. Rowe Price launches the T. Rowe Price Global Infrastructure fund...
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2/12/2010
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The AllianceBernstein Retirement Strategies funds plan to add the newly registered AllianceBernstein Volatility Management fund (expected to launch this April) as an underlying portfolio with the intention of tempering the volatility and equity exposure of the funds, particularly in extreme market conditions...
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2/12/2010
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Fidelity registers the Fidelity Corporate Bond fund...
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2/5/2010
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BlackRock and First Trust register new ETFs (with two of First Trust's to be actively managed: First Trust Emerging Markets AlphaDEX ETF and First Trust Developed International Markets AlphaDEX ETF)...
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2/5/2010
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Certain BlackRock iShares file to update their policies regarding payments to broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries...
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2/5/2010
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This coming March, the WisdomTree Japan Total Dividend fund will be renamed the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity fund, and while the fund will continue to be a Japan “total market” fund, it also will seek to hedge against fluctuations between the value of the Japanese yen and the U.S. dollar (WisdomTree also plans to liquidate ten ETFs this March)...
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2/5/2010
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PIMCO launches the actively managed PIMCO Short Term Municipal Bond Strategy ETF...
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2/5/2010
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MFS has signed the Principles for Responsible Investment, an investor initiative in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the United Nations Global Compact...
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1/29/2010
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Fred Alger launches the Alger Dynamic Opportunities fund...
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1/29/2010
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Fidelity's Strategic Advisers filed the Fidelity Strategic Advisers Growth fund...
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1/29/2010
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Joseph Tse replaces Wilson Wong as the portfolio manager of the Fidelity China Region fund, and Colin Chickles replaces Kevin Chang as the portfolio manager of the Fidelity Advisor Emerging Asia fund (click here for other recent portfolio management changes made by Fidelity)...
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1/29/2010
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Deutsche Investment Management Americas has announced its intention to transition members of the linked DWS funds' portfolio management teams who are part of its Quantitative Strategies Group or Global Equity Team out of Deutsche Investment Management Americas and into two separate independent investment advisory firms that are not affiliated with Deutsche Investment Management Americas...
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1/29/2010
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Grail Advisors launches the Grail McDonnell Intermediate Municipal Bond ETF and the Grail McDonnell Core Taxable Bond ETF...
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1/22/2010
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Eaton Vance filed the closed-end, Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Absolute Return fund, sub-advised by Parametric Risk Advisors and combining a tax-advantaged income strategy and an options-based return enhancement strategy to reach its objective...
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1/22/2010
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The Jefferies | TR/J CRB Wildcatters Exploration & Production Equity ETF is currently being offered for sale...
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1/22/2010
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Invesco AIM's International Small Company fund will limit public sales of its shares to new investors effective January 29, 2010...
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1/22/2010
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Putnam registers the fund of funds, Putnam Global Sector fund, allocating assets among eight Putnam global sector funds...
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1/22/2010
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Effective January 20, 2010, the AQR Diversified Arbitrage fund will no longer impose a redemption fee, and effective March 1, 2010, a group of Columbia international/global funds will no longer assess a redemption fee...
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1/15/2010
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Van Kampen files more reorganizations, with funds moving into existing Invesco AIM funds or newly formed funds advised by an affiliate of Invesco...
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1/15/2010
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Pending shareholder approval, Evergreen funds will reorganize into corresponding Wells Fargo Advantage funds...
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1/15/2010
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DoubleLine Capital LP, founded by Jeffrey E. Gundlach (formerly of TCW), registers three funds...
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1/15/2010
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Vanguard Windsor II fund has added Sanders Capital to the fund’s advisory team with Lewis A. Sanders and John P. Mahedy managing approximately 8.5% of the fund's assets...
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1/15/2010
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BlackRock's iShares launches term municipal bond ETFs...
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1/8/2010
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John W. Southard, Jr. has retired from his position as portfolio manager of PowerShares funds...
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1/8/2010
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F. William McNabb III has been elected Chairman of the Board of Vanguard and of each of the Vanguard funds (John J. Brennan retired as Chairman of the Board and trustee of Vanguard and of each of the Vanguard funds and Charles D. Ellis retired as director of Vanguard and trustee of each of the Vanguard funds)...
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1/8/2010
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The Barclays Global iShares 10+ Year Government/Credit Bond ETF may now invest in taxable securities issued by states, municipalities and other political subdivisions, agencies, authorities and instrumentalities of states and multi-state agencies or authorities...
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1/8/2010
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Recent launches: TCW Emerging Markets Equities fund, Huntington Global Select Markets fund, Lazard Global Listed Infrastructure fund, Compass EMP Alternative Investment fund, and the WisdomTree International Hedged Equity ETF (WisdomTree also recently registered a new fund, the WisdomTree Rising Dollar ETF)...
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