Simfund Filing: News Makers Archives

7/18/2008	American Funds registers the American International Growth & Income fund offering 15 share classes...
7/18/2008	SSgA registers three single country ETFs (Brazil, India, and Russia), and Northern Trust registers five (Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, and Switzerland)...
7/18/2008	Barclays Global splits shares on ETFs...
7/18/2008	WisdomTree launches the WisdomTree Middle East Dividend ETF, Prudential launches the Jennison Small Cap Opportunity fund, and City National Asset Management launches the CNI Charter Opportunistic Value fund (sub-advised by SKBA Capital Management)...
7/18/2008	Robin Foley joins Robert Galusza in managing the Fidelity Advisor Short Fixed Income and Fidelity Short-Term Bond funds (Andrew Dudley left this past February)...
7/11/2008	Six of Capital One’s seven funds, with a total of $650 million in assets, will reorganize into similar Fidelity funds in October 2008, pending shareholder approval...
7/11/2008	IndexIQ launched the no-load, open-end IQ Alpha Hedge Strategy fund on June 30, 2008 (registered in February 2008), which seeks to replicate the risk-adjusted return characteristics of hedge funds…
7/11/2008	Invesco PowerShares launched the PowerShares MENA Frontier Countries ETF on July 9, 2008, tracking an index comprised of securities of companies domiciled in or principally traded in Middle East or North African frontier countries…
7/11/2008	Ameriprise Financial announces an agreement to acquire J. & W. Seligman & Co…
7/11/2008	The Hartford Mutual Funds and Lord Abbett both recently launched international equity funds: The Hartford Mutual Funds unveiled The Hartford Diversified International fund; and Lord Abbett launched the Lord Abbett International Dividend Income fund, which the company also recently added to its list of underlying funds in which its Strategic Allocation funds may invest…
7/4/2008	AIG SunAmerica registers the AIG SunAmerica Alternative Strategies fund, which will seek to provide commodity and hedge fund exposure by investing in index-linked securities, and will be sub-advised by Pelagos Capital Management...