1.   Eaton Vance has merged the assets of about six state muni bond funds in recent years.

2.   Federated intends to merge the assets of the seven William Penn funds into existing Federated funds, Donahue said.

3.   It has bailed out of other companies such as Ziff-Davis Inc., a Boston area technology publisher whose assets were merged with CNET Networks last year.

4.   The core members, Hero and Wingsung, will merge assets and coordinate operations under Hero Chairman Zhao Songsheng, Zhou said.

5.   Russian Aluminum formed earlier this year when Sibirsky Aluminum merged its assets with those held by Sibneft oil company shareholders.

6.   The two companies merged their assets, and kept the EarthLink name.