Credit Suisse Converts Funds to Load

On Wall Street, December, 2001

Credit Suisse Asset Management said it will convert all its no-load mutual funds to load products and market them under one brand name, Credit Suisse Funds. The decision, which is effective December 12, affects 28 funds including Warburg Pincus funds, which were merged into the Credit Suisse complex more than a year ago. That merger prompted the firm to convert all its funds to the Warburg Pincus brand. Now, all will carry the Credit Suisse name.

The move is part of an ongoing migration from no-load to load. In August, GE Asset Management abandoned efforts to sell its 21 funds through Charles Schwab's no-load supermarket and began charging sales fees and distributing the funds through advisors. Other converts to load are Acorn Investment Trust, William Blair & Company and...

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