Brain Surgery
On March 28,
Sentinel promoted three executives to the level of portfolio manager for two funds.
Jason Doiron will take over as lead portfolio manager for the
Sentinel Conservative Strategies Fund. Meanwhile,
Jason Wulff will assume the lead portfolio management responsibilities for the
Sentinel Growth Leaders Fund. He will be joined by co- manager
Hilary Roper.
Pregnancies
On March 27,
Eaton Vance [
profile] has
filed with the SEC to launch a new kind of ETF.
On March 27,
WisdomTree [profile] has filed for approval to launch two funds: the
WisdomTree Brazil Low Volatility Equity Index and the
WisdomTree Brazil Bond Fund.
IndexUniverse reports that
Guinness Atkinson [
profile] has filed to launch its own passive ETFs.
Births
On March 27,
Natixis Global Asset Management [
profile] has
launched the
Aurora Horizons Fund.
On March 27,
AQR [
profile]
launched three core equity funds: the
AQR Core Equity Fund; the
AQR Small Cap Core Equity Fund and the
AQR International Core Equity Fund.
On March 27,
Aberdeen [
profile]
launched the
Aberdeen Latin American Equity Fund and the
Aberdeen European Equity Fund.
On March 26, $7-billion AUM shop
Aspiriant unveiled its first mutual fund, the
Aspiriant Risk-Managed Global Equity Fund. The new fund is powered by
AQR Capital Management [
profile],
Dimensional Fund Advisors [
profile] and
Parametric Risk Advisors [
profile].
On April 1,
DoubleLine Capital [
profile]
will launch its first equities mutual fund, the
DoubleLine Equities Small Cap Growth Fund. The launch of the open-end, domestic stock mutual fund follows DoubleLine's recent
hiring of TCW equity PMs
Husam Nazer and
Brendt Stallings to lead the brand new DoubleLine Equity unit.
On March 25,
Neuberger Berman introduced the
Neuberger Berman New York Municipal Income Fund.
AdvisorShares has
launched the
AdvisorShares Newfleet Multi-Sector Income ETF.
Deaths
On March 27,
Vanguard [
profile] filed
plans to reorganize the
Vanguard Florida Focused Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund into the
Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund.
Check back as we continue to update this column throughout the week.
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