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INVESTING ETFS MAY 29, 2007
State Street to launch SPDR ETFs

State Street Global Advisors announced five new fixed-income SPDR ETFs will begin trading on the American Stock Exchange tomorrow.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 29, 2007
Presto! SEC loses another battle Cookware maker

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission is on a roll in the courts — but not a good one.

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INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 29, 2007
RiverSource aims to improve image

RiverSource Funds — formerly American Express Funds — ranked as last year’s third-best-performing mutual fund group by one measure and now is waging a battle to improve its image and reverse investor outflows by sometime next year.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 29, 2007
Slim pickings for Russell 2000 arbitrageurs

Arbitrageurs looking to profit from the annual reconstitution of the small-cap Russell 2000 Index next month will have a more difficult time of it this year, according to some industry experts.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ETFS MAY 29, 2007
First Trust places a wager on the alpha craze

PHILADELPHIA — First Trust Advisors LP is betting that investors will want exchange traded funds that seek alpha.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAY 25, 2007
One-third of managers to beef up outsourcing

One-third of investment management firms will increase their use of outsourcing over the next two years.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 25, 2007
‘CAT’ bond fund brings in the scratch

Pioneer Investments today has launched the Pioneer Diversified High Income Trust.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 23, 2007
Lipper launches target-risk ETFs

Lipper Inc. of New York announced today it has created a suite of target-risk fund benchmarks made up exclusively of exchange traded funds.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 22, 2007
Euronext profits down, revenues up

Euronext NV today reported a 4.4% profit loss during the first quarter, due to a reclassification of the company’s stake in LCH.Clearnet.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 21, 2007
Vanguard files for fifth ETF

The Vanguard Group Inc. announced it filed a registration statement with the SEC for its fifth international exchange traded fund.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 15, 2007
Claymore to launch Morningstar ETFs

Morningstar Inc. has announced that Claymore Securities Inc. has licensed three Morningstar Super Sector Indexes to create three new exchange traded funds.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 14, 2007
Water index ETF debuts on AMEX

The American Stock Exchange today launched trading in the Claymore S&P Global Water Index ETF, the first exchange traded fund to cover the global water industry.

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INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 14, 2007
Mid-caps’ flows middling despite top-notch results

PHILADELPHIA — Mid-cap stocks rank among the best- performing mutual funds, but they remain a tough sell to investors, industry experts say.

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INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 14, 2007
AthenaInvest beta-tests competitor to style boxes

DETROIT — The three-year assault on mutual fund style boxes as an evaluation and asset allocation tool has moved to the beta-testing level by a firm that seeks to turn the traditional grid system inside out.

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INVESTING RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 14, 2007
Cox, Schapiro tackle disclosure at ICI meeting

The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining disclosures for 401(k) plans and is looking at ways to provide 401(k) information using interactive software, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said last week.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 11, 2007
First Trust Advisors launch ETFs on NYSE

After launching 17 exchange traded funds on the American Stock Exchange yesterday, First Trust Advisors LP today moved over to the New York Stock Exchange to list three more funds.

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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAY 10, 2007
Mutual funds withstand hedge fund seige

Despite the continued – if slowing – growth of hedge funds, mutual funds will continue to dominate money management for the foreseeable future, said market observers at the ICI annual conference today.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 10, 2007
AMEX debuts ETFs by First Trust

The American Stock Exchange began trading 17 exchange traded funds managed by First Trust Advisors LP this morning.

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INVESTING ETFS MAY 09, 2007
Van Eck launches green ETFs

Van Eck Global launched the Market Vectors-Global Alternative Energy Exchange Traded Fund on the New York Stock Exchange today.

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INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 07, 2007
Funds slow pace of hiring legal, compliance staff

Mutual fund companies are starting to slow the pace at which they hire legal and compliance officers, according to several industry experts. With the mutual fund scandals receding into the past, such a trend was inevitable, they said.

By Bloomberg