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Thursday, August 16, 2001 Happy B-Day for Index! Charles Schwab is in talks to acquire the Jeffries Group, reports the Wall Street Journal. Though still preliminary, any such deal would allow Schwab to make inroads into the institutional side of the trading business. * * * After regulatory approval and some handshakes, UBS officially completed its acquisition of RT Capital Management, formerly Royal Bank of Canada's institutional pension fund management division. * * * Van Eck Global launched the Van Eck Troika Dialog Fund, a fund that specializes in companies in Eastern and Central Europe today. Russia based Troika Dialog Asset Management is the investment advisor for the fund. * * * Montgomery Asset Management has used Inlumen to integrate personalization features for its retail website with U.S. equity information services. * * * AIM Advisors closed its $57 million (class A,B,C shares) AIM Latin American Growth Fund and $153 million (class A,B,C shares)AIM Global Consumer Products & Services Fund to new investors as of yesterday. * * * Happy Birthday! The Vangaurd 500 Index Fund, the first index fund and now the largest fund in the world, turns 25 at the end of this month. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=26850 Copyright 2001, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |