EARNEST Partners has combined the EARNEST Partners Fixed Income Trust with the Touchstone Total Return Bond Fund. As part of the merger, shareholders of the fixed income trust have exchanged their shares for shares of the Touchstone bond fund.
Georgia-based EARNEST will continue to be the sub-adviser of the bond fund. Managed by Touchstone Investments, the portfolio fund has outperformed its benchmark the Barclay’s Capital Aggregate Bond Index for the one-, three-, five- and ten-year periods.
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