AIM Seeks to Combine New Funds

Published April 03, 2000, 1:00 a.m. EDT

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AIM Advisors of Houston, Texas has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to ask shareholders of two Asian funds to combine the two funds.

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If approved, the AIM New Pacific Growth Fund will be combined with the AIM Asian Growth Fund. The investment objectives of the two funds are identical and their investment policies are very similar, AIM Advisors plans to tell shareholders in an April 20 proxy solicitation letter.

If approved, all of the assets of the New Pacific Growth Fund will be transferred to the Asian Growth Fund and the newly combined funds will be known as the AIM Asian Growth Fund.

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