Portfolio Managers

David Hemming is a new PM of the PowerShares S&P 500 BuyWrite Portfolio.

James (Chip) Skinner III is now the sole PM of the Royce Smaller-Companies Growth Fund. Carl Brown had PMed the fund, too.

On September 29, Matthew K. Berler and Alexander (Sasha) Kovriga will no longer serve as the co-PMs of the Clearwater Core Equity Fund.

As of September 22, Simon Somerville will become a co-PM of the Harbor Diversified International All Cap Fund.

Share Classes

On February 28, 2017, class B shares of the MainStay Equity Funds, the MainStay Income and Mixed Asset Funds, and the MainStay Asset Allocation Funds will be closed.

New and Upcoming Funds

First Trust is launching seven new ETFs: the First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF, the First Trust Nasdaq Food & Beverage ETF, the First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF, the First Trust Nasdaq Pharmaceuticals ETF, the First Trust Nasdaq Retail ETF, the First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF, and the First Trust Nasdaq Transportation ETF.

On October 1, the Bernzott U.S. Small Cap Value Fund will be launched.

State Street is launching the State Street Institutional Investment Trust, which includes the State Street Global Value Spotlight Fund, the State Street International Value Spotlight Fund, the State Street European Value Spotlight Fund, the State Street Asia Pacific Value Spotlight Fund, and the State Street U.S. Value Spotlight Fund.

Rebranding

On December 28, the Oppenheimer International Value Fund will change its name to the Oppenheimer International Equity Fund.

On September 30, the Nationwide Money Market Fund will be renamed to the Nationwide Government Money Market Fund.

On December 1, the Invesco International Total Return Fund will change its name to the Invesco World Bond Fund.

Mergers & Acquisitions

On December 5, the Stone Ridge Reinsurance Risk Premium Fund will merge with and into the Stone Ridge High Yield Reinsurance Risk Premium Fund.

Exemptive Relief

The Neuberger Berman Advisers Management Trust is requesting exemptive relief to create an interfund loan program.

Mergers & Liquidations

On October 21, the Century Growth Opportunities Fund will be dissolved and liquidated.

On October 14, the VanEck Vectors Gulf States Index ETF and the VanEck Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF will terminate and liquidate.

On October 24, the Oak Ridge Growth Opportunity Fund will be terminated and liquidated.

On October 31. the Pacific Select Fund will terminate and liquidate.

On October 3, the Vantagepoint Funds will be terminated and liquidated.

On October 28, the Invesco Strategic Income Fund will terminate and liquidate.

On January 30, 2017, the AB Pooling Portfolios, which includes the AB U.S. Value Portfolio, the AB U.S. Large Cap Growth Portfolio, the AB International Value Portfolio, the AB International Growth Portfolio, the AB Short Duration Bond Portfolio, the AB Global Core Bond Portfolio, the AB Bond Inflation Protection Portfolio, the AB Small-Mid Cap Value Portfolio, the AB Small-Mid Cap Growth Portfolio and the AB Multi-Asset Real Return Portfolio, will terminate and liquidate. The AB Tax-Managed Conservative Wealth Strategy will also close and terminate.

On October 21, the Giralda Risk-Managed Growth Fund will terminate and liquidate.

On December 2, the Transamerica Global Bond will be terminated and liquidated.



Check our last Filings For Fundsters column (previously called Stork and Reaper) for more SEC filing updates. For the latest new hires and fund launches, explore our People on the Move and New Fund Fuss columns. If you have a fund filing, a mutual fund launch, a product change or a new hire that you would like to announce, please contact the MFWire team at editors@investmentwires.com.

 

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