Week 28: 7/12/2010-7/16/2010
  by Jennifer Mann and Pamela Hill
The Dreyfus Total Return Advantage fund reduces its management fee (and lowers its contractual expense cap for Classes A, C, and I shares)...Strategic Advisers registers the Fidelity Strategic Advisers Emerging Markets fund with Pyramis Global Advisors to sub-advise...Mathew M. Kiselak joins Christopher W. Alwine in managing the Vanguard High-Yield Tax-Exempt and Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt funds...John D. Ryan joins the management teams of several DWS funds (including the DWS Short Duration Plus and DWS GNMA funds)...Legg Mason liquidates five Western Asset money market funds...Putnam retail funds add policy regarding borrowing (and other forms of leverage) and interfund borrowing and lending...Wellington Management Company will serve as the sole sub-advisor for The Hartford SmallCap Growth and The Hartford Small Company funds...   MORE>>


Week 27: 7/05/2010-7/09/2010
  by Jennifer Mann and Pamela Hill
Columbia RiverSource, Seligman, and Threadneedle funds close Class B shares...The First American Short Term Bond and First American Short Tax Free funds modify their Class A sales charge schedules, CDSCs, and dealer concessions...Laura A. Ostrander will no longer manage the Columbia International Bond fund, and also leaves the management teams of the Columbia Strategic Income and RiverSource Strategic Income Allocation funds...PIMCO/Allianz's CCM Capital Appreciation, CCM Focused Growth, CCM Mid-Cap, and CCM Emerging Companies funds will reorganize this August into a new series of The Managers Funds (Managers Cadence funds)...A sampling of this week's new fund registrations include: AdvisorShares Active Bear ETF, Columbia Marsico Flexible Capital fund, and the Eaton Vance Option Absolute Return Strategy fund...   MORE>>


Week 26: 6/28/2010-7/02/2010
  by Jennifer Mann and Pamela Hill
Eaton Vance, MainStay, Nationwide, and Sentinel all make changes to their Class A front-end sales charge structure (with MainStay also making changes to their Investor shares front-end sales charge structure)...Certain Principal funds voluntarily agree to reduce 12b-1 fees on Class J shares...John Hancock, Aberdeen, Franklin Templeton, Munder, Hartford, Natixis, MainStay, Hartford, and Killen Group modify advisory and/or sub-advisory fees this week...Van Eck registers the Market Vectors Minor Metals ETF and AdvisorShares files the AdvisorShares Cambria Global Tactical ETF...Thomas L. Pappas will no longer manage the Vanguard GNMA, leaving Michael F. Garrett as the sole portfolio manager...Sentinel funds convert Class B shares into A shares...Dreyfus BNY Mellon Municipal Opportunities fund re-opens to new investors...XShares Group (the parent company of XShares Advisors LLC) and Deutsche Bank have consummated an agreement pursuant to which Deutsche Bank acquired all of the issued and outstanding membership interests in XShares Advisors...ING Foreign fund will change its name to the ING Global Opportunities fund and will add the U.S. to its primary investing universe...Janus Orion fund will change its name to the Janus Global Select fund and will increase its focus on global investments...   MORE>>