AGF Funds Inc. today announced an innovative approach to managed assets by launching a new Harmony pool, providing investors with greater diversification through access to various types of non-traditional investments.

Divcom Lighting Inc. (TSX: DVQ), a leading manufacturer of energy efficient lighting products throughout North America, today announced its intention to effect a non-brokered private placement of common shares at a price of $0.03 per share to raise gross proceeds of approximately $550,000.

JovFunds Management Inc., the manager of the Jov BetaPro Short-Term Income Fund, held a special meeting of the unitholders of the Fund on August 11, 2008. Unitholders of the Fund approved a proposal to amend the investment objectives of the Fund. It is expected that, subject to regulatory approval, the investment objective of the Fund will be as follows:

Canadians generally say they kept positive about investing in the past quarter, despite daily news about volatile equity markets, rising gas and food prices plus U.S. sub-prime lending woes, according to a national poll for Manulife Financial, Canada's leading insurance and wealth management company.

INTERNATIONAL BARYTEX RESOURCES LTD. (TSX-V: IBX) is pleased to announce that it has retained the services of CoMo Investment Solutions Inc. to complement its investor relations efforts and assist with in-house communications.

Clarke Inc. announces that it has acquired 894,500 units of Supremex Income Fund bringing its total holdings in Supremex to 7,410,800 units representing approximately 25.28% of the total outstanding units of Supremex.

TD Asset Management Inc. is pleased to announce it has become a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.

The economic and psychological term known as “sunk-cost fallacy” is a bias that leads someone to make a decision based solely on a previous financial investment.

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that one of the ten largest commercial bank holding companies in the U.S. has standardized on Salesforce for Financial Services.

Care Investment Trust Inc. (NYSE: CRE), announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Care YBE Subsidiary LLC, acquired 12 senior housing facilities from affiliates of Eby Realty Group, L.L.C. for $100.8 million. The transaction closed on Thursday, June 26, 2008.

ACORN ENERGY, INC. (Nasdaq: ACFN), a holding company focused on intelligent energy infrastructure and restructuring retail electricity markets, today announced that its Paketeria affiliate in Germany has deepened its partnership with the Volksbank network this week with the execution by Volksbank Meissen of an agreement to open 12 "shop-in-bank" locations in Meissen -- two in August and the remaining ten in the fall.

MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MBRK), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel anti-infective products, today announced that its Board of Directors has completed its previously announced review of strategic alternatives and has entered into an agreement with Equity Group Investments, L.L.C. (EGI) for a $100 million equity investment in the Company.