ING to enhance its ensemble portfolios


Monday, July 22, 2002 - Toronto
ING to enhance its ensemble portfolios

Monday, July 22, 2002 - Toronto
The Ensemble Portfolios currently consist of six all-equity fund-of-funds which invest in funds of three global investment managers, ING, AIM and Fidelity. Enhancements to the Ensemble Portfolios will include the addition of a fixed income component, the ING Canadian Bond Fund, as well as an allocation service that will automatically rebalance the investments between the equity and the fixed income components. Furthermore, the target weightings and the underlying funds in which each portfolio invests will be modified on September 30 (see attachment for details).

According to Doug Paul, ING Funds' Managing Director, the addition of the ING Canadian Bond Fund as a fixed income component will allow Ensemble Portfolios' investors and their financial advisors to benefit from a more flexible wrap-like program. While the requirement for a highly-diversified equity component is as important as ever, investors and financial advisors have shown an increased interest in fixed income instruments since the launch of the Portfolios in early 2001. By offering our unitholders an unbundled fixed income component, they will gain greater investment flexibility within our own line-up. As for the changes to the underlying funds, Mr. Paul said that, after reviewing the Portfolios, the managers concluded that the investment objectives and approaches could be maintained with a streamlined line-up of funds.

While commissions and trailing commissions on Investor Class units will be increased, both the management fees and the expenses charged to the funds will remain the same.

Later this year, investors will also have the opportunity to make switches between the Ensemble Portfolios and the ING Funds to allow for even greater flexibility.

Ensemble Portfolios' unitholders will receive notification of the details of these changes shortly.

ING Funds and ING Investment Management are members of Amsterdam-based ING Groep N.V., one of the world's largest providers of insurance, banking and investment products and services. ING employs more than 110,000 people in 65 countries.

For more information:
Ed Dermit
Vice President, Product and Marketing
ING Investment Management, Inc.
(416) 217-7215

Gillian Hewitt/Tanya Wymer
Edelman Public Relations
(416) 979-1120


Revisions to ensemble portfolios' underlying fund holdings & respective target weightings

Ensemble conservative equity portfolio ensemble conservative equity RSP portfolio
AIM Canadian First Class 10%
Fidelity Disciplined Equity Fund 10%
Trimark Enterprise Small Cap Fund 5%
ING US Equity Fund 10%
Trimark U.S. Companies Fund 15%
Trimark Discovery Fund 5%
ING Europe Equity Fund 15%
Fidelity Far East Fund 5%
Fidelity International Portfolio Fund 15%
ING Canadian Resources Fund 10%
TOTAL 100%
Ensemble conservative equity RSP portfolio
AIM Canadian First Class 20%
Fidelity Disciplined Equity Fund 25%
Trimark Enterprise Small Cap Fund 10%
ING Canadian Financial Services Fund 10%
ING Canadian Resources Fund 10%
ING US Equity Fund 10%
Fidelity International Portfolio Fund 10%
ING Europe Equity Fund 5%
   
   
TOTAL 100%
Ensemble moderate equity portfolio
Fidelity True North® Fund 10%
ING Canadian Small Cap Fund 5%
Fidelity American Opportunities Fund 10%
Trimark U.S. Companies Fund 10%
ING Europe Equity Fund 15%
ING Austral-Asia Equity Fund 5%
Fidelity Japanese Growth Fund 5%
ING Emerging Markets Equity Fund 5%
Trimark Fund 15%
Fidelity Focus Consumer Industries Fund 10%
AIM Global Health Sciences Fund 10%
TOTAL 100%
Ensemble moderate equity RSP portfolio
ING Canadian Equity Fund 20%
AIM Canadian First Class 10%
Fidelity True North® Fund 15%
Trimark Enterprise Small Cap Fund 15%
ING Canadian Financial Services Fund 15%
Fidelity American Opportunities Fund 5%
Trimark Fund 10%
Fidelity Focus Technology Fund 5%
AIM European Growth Fund 5%
   
   
TOTAL 100%
Ensemble aggressive equity portfolio
Trimark Enterprise Small Cap Fund 10%
ING US Equity Fund 10%
Trimark U.S. Companies Fund 10%
AIM European Growth Fund 5%
Fidelity European Growth Fund 10%
Fidelity Far East Fund 10%
ING Japan Equity Fund 5%
Fidelity Emerging Markets Portfolio Fund 5%
ING Global Technology Fund 20%
Fidelity Focus Heath Care Fund 15%
TOTAL 100%
Ensemble aggressive equity RSP portfolio
AIM Canadian First Class 15%
Fidelity True North® Fund 15%
Fidelity Canadian Aggressive Fund 15%
Trimark Enterprise Small Cap Fund 15%
ING Canadian Financial Services Fund 15%
ING US Equity Fund 5%
Trimark Discovery Fund 5%
ING Global Technology Fund 5%
ING Europe Equity Fund 5%
Fidelity Emerging Markets Portfolio Fund 5%
TOTAL 100%


The investment of an Ensemble Portfolio in an underlying fund may vary from the target weightings shown above as a result of changes in the relative performance of the underlying funds. In the case of variations in an Ensemble Portfolio from the target weightings of more than 2.5% up or down, the regulators require that the Ensemble Portfolio purchase and/or sell units of the underlying funds on the next valuation day to bring the Portfolio's investment in the underlying funds back to the target weightings.

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