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SWX Swiss Exchange And virt-x: Key Figures Jan.-Dec. 2003

Date 06/01/2004

Trading days: 246
Statement By New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Regarding The Investment Company Institute's Mutual Fund Fee Report

Date 06/01/2004

The report released today by the Investment Company Institute is fundamentally flawed because it considered only the advisory fees charged by sub-advisors. Sub-advisors are external managers that are hired by mutual fund managers to give investment advice. The fees that they charge are the product of competitive bidding and arms-length negotiations. It is therefore not surprising that those fees are lower than those charged by most mutual funds and closer to the advisory fees paid by pension fun
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 06/01/2004

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, January 6, 2004: Greentree Gas & Oil Ltd. (TSXVN:YGG) will trade under the new ticker symbol "GGO." There is no name change and no consolidation of capital. Stratic Energy Corporation (TSXVN:YSZ) will trade under the new ticker symbol "SE." There is no name change and no consolidation of capital. Chondrogene Limited (TSXVN:YDG) will trade under th
NQLX December 2003 Volume

Date 06/01/2004

NQLX LLC announced today that 72,893 contracts were traded on its market in December.
NQLX Appoints Michael Love To Senior Vice President, Market Operations

Date 06/01/2004

NQLX LLC announced today that it has promoted Michael Love to Senior Vice President, Market Operations. Love started with NQLX in 2001 as Vice President, Program Management.

New Baltic Voice For Tanker Principals

Date 06/01/2004

Simon Toyne of the US oil trading company Hess Energy Trading Company LLC (HETCO) has been appointed the first chairman of the Baltic's Freight Market Information Users' Group's (FMIUG) tanker section. This follows the recent appointment of Linda Kongerslev of German shipowning company Egon Oldendorff as chairman of the Baltic group's dry section.
NASD Members Elect Four Governors to Board

Date 06/01/2004

NASD today conducted its Annual Meeting, during which the membership of NASD voted to elect four people to the NASD Board of Governors. Two of the individuals, William C. Alsover and Sharon P. Smith, were elected to a second term of three years. Former U.S. Comptroller General Charles Bowsher, who was appointed to fill a vacancy last July, was elected to his first three-year term on the Board, as was Joel Seligman, Dean of the School of Law at Washington University. The terms of the four Gove
Mutual Fund And Pension Fund Fee Levels Are Similar, ICI Research Study Finds - ICI Says A Three-Year-Old Article, Cited Recently By the New York Attorney General, Is Flawed And Misleading

Date 06/01/2004

A comprehensive economic study published today by the Investment Company Institute demonstrates that portfolio management fee levels at mutual funds and pension funds are quite similar. The ICI study refutes suppositions about pension fund and mutual fund fees first advanced in an Iowa law journal article and more recently cited by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
Massimo Capuano, President And CEO Of Borsa Italiana, Becomes President Of The Federation Of European Stock Exchanges - Recognition Of Borsa Italiana's Role On An International Level

Date 06/01/2004

Massimo Capuano, President and CEO of Borsa Italiana, on January 2, 2004, started his two-year term as President of the Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE), following his election by the General Assembly of the members of the Federation in Amsterdam last October.
London Metal Exchange Monthly Volumes - December 2003

Date 06/01/2004

The London Metal Exchange traded a total of 6,174,989 lots in December 2003. This figure was made up of 5,786,185 lots of futures, 332,986 lots of options and 55,818 lots of TAPOs.