Claymore Investments, Inc. Launches New Canadian Bond ETF

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Claymore Investments, Inc., on Nov. 19, 2009 announced the launching of the Claymore Advantaged Canadian Bond ETF (TSX: CAB.TO).

The fund is a fixed income exchange traded fund (ETF) which is designed to provide investors with a low cost, tax-efficient exposure to a diversified Canadian bond portfolio. The plan is for the fund to track the DLUX Capped Bond Index, a high-quality subset of the DEX Universe Bond Index.

In other words, the price and performance of the DEX DLUX Capped Bond Index ("the Index") will determine the return of the fund, net of fees and expenses.

To qualify for the DLUX indexes, securities must have a minimum issue size or amount outstanding of $300 million, credit ratings of A or higher, and annual trade-volume turnover of 25% or higher. The Index tracks Canadian investment grade Government and corporate bonds, with target exposure allocations of 60% and 40%, respectively. The fund will receive exposure to the bond securities underlying the Index through the use of a forward agreement with TD Global Finance.

"Bonds are a very important part of an investment portfolio for income and diversification purposes and CAB is a simple, low cost way to get exposure to bonds on a tax-efficient basis. The fund is structured to provide tax-efficient income, making it an optimal investment for non-registered or taxable accounts and we are excited to be partnering with DEX, the leader in Canadian fixed income indexes, to bring this product to the market" said Som Seif, President and CEO of Claymore.

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Excel Funds Launches BRIC Fund
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Excel Funds Launches BRIC Fund

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On Nov. 3, 2009 Excel Funds, a Mississauga Ontario-based fund company that focuses on investment opportunities in emerging markets launched a new fund named Excel BRIC Fund. The new fund is made up from four existing Excel funds: Excel Latin America, Excel China, Excel India and Excel Emerging Europe.

The four Excel Funds are sub-advised by: Baring Asset Management (Asia) Ltd. in Hong Kong, China managing the Excel China Fund; Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd. in Mumbai, India managing the Excel India Fund; Banco Itau – Unibanco in Sao Paulo, Brazil managing the Excel Latin America Fund; and Baring International Investment Ltd in London, England managing the Excel Emerging Europe Fund.

This combining of four existing funds with proven track records provides investors the opportunity to purchase one fund instead of four.

"The BRIC nations represent more than 40% of the world's population and are among the fastest growing economies," says company President and CEO, Bhim D. Asdhir. "Yet, on the whole, Canadian investors have less than 1% of their investment portfolios invested in these economies. These markets are too big to ignore, as the combined GDP of the BRIC nations now exceed the GDP of the United States of America."

The management fee is scheduled to be 2.5% which is the same as each of the four current funds.

The fund may be purchased with a $500 minimum investment and has both-front end and deferred sales charge options. Speak to your financial advisor if you are interested in making an investment in this fund.

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GrowthWorks and Seamark Asset Management Agree to Merger Plans

GrowthWorks Capital Ltd. and Seamark Asset Management Ltd. announced plans to execute a share swap which will result in a new publicly traded company to be called Matrix Asset Management Inc. The new company will control about $3 billion in assets, $2 billion of which comes from Seamark.

The deal is subject to the approval by the shareholders of the two companies, regulatory authorities and the TSX.

David Levi, founder, president and CEO of GrowthWorks said “We already have support agreements from 53 per cent of the shareholders of Seamark, and 74 per cent of from the shareholders of GrowthWorks supporting it.”

Earlier this year GrowthWorks purchased Mavrix Funds Management for $2.2 million, not to be confused with the newly formed company Matrix Asset Management Inc.

There had been lots of speculation that Seamark was a takeover candidate due to a high number of redemptions and the loss lost of some clients earlier this year.

According to Mr. Levi, Seamark shareholders will end up with 25 per cent of Matrix, while GrowthWorks shareholders will wind up with 75 per cent.

Under Matrix, the Seamark unit will continue with the institutional fund management business and GrowthWorks will work on the venture capital side.

Current plans are for Mr. Levi to become president and CEO of the merged company while current Seamark CEO Brent Barrie will retain his position and Seamark founder, Peter Marshall will serve on the board with both Mr. Levi and Mr. Barrie.

It will be interesting to watch the progress of this new company in the upcoming year. It is not often two companies, on opposite ends of the continent, merge to form one. GrowthWorks is Vancouver-based and Seamark is Halifax-based.

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BMO Introduces Nine New ETFs

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Bank of Montreal (BMO) on Oct 26, 2009 added nine new funds to their stable of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). This brings the total of ETFs in the BMO barn to thirteen.

The new ETFs are comprised of an exacta of industry diversified funds:

1. BMO International Equity Hedged to CAD Index
2. BMO Emerging Markets Equity Index

A trifecta of "equal weight" industry sector funds:

1. BMO S&P/TSX Equal Weight Banks Index
2. BMO S&P/TSX Equal Weight Oil & Gas Index
3. BMO S&P/TSX Equal Weight Global Base Metals Hedged to CAD Index

The remaining four new ETFs are fixed income funds. Three of these fixed income funds invest in federal, provincial and corporate issues, and the fourth is hedged to the Canadian Dollar.

1. BMO Short Federal Bond Index
2. BMO Short Provincial Bond Index
3. BMO Short Corporate Bond Index
4. BMO High Yield U.S. Corporate Bond Hedged to CAD

The following document provides the investor with the names, symbols and current management expense ratio (MER) for these nine new BMO exchange traded funds.




Investors may find these new additions to the BMO stable of EFTs a worthwhile bet.

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