State Street Global Advisors, Boston, has launched an exchange-traded fund based on the WilshireReal Estate Investment Trust Index. Like mutual funds, ETFs are based on pooledmoney from investors, but they are traded throughout the day on an exchange -- in this case, The American StockExchange, under the symbol RWR. SSGA said it will act as the investment manager of the Wilshire REIT Fund, andthe Tuckerman Group, SSGA's real estate investment unit, will act as the sub-advisor. The fund is part of the streetTracksSeries Trust introduced last September by SSGA, which is the investment management group of State Street Corp.The company's website addresses are http://www.ssga.com and http://www.streettracks.com.
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