AGF Funds Inc. today announced that global growth specialist McKinley Capital Management Inc. will act as portfolio manager on the overseas equity pool in Harmony, AGF’s tailored investment program.

The change in manager is effective immediately.

Harmony also announced the launch of a deferred sales charge (DSC) purchase option for its pools and portfolios. The DSC alternative provides advisors and their clients with more flexibility and choice in structuring their investments. The DSC option will be available for both the wrap and embedded series, and rounds out the front-end and low-load purchase options currently available.

McKinley Capital Management Inc. will manage the growth portion of the Harmony Overseas Equity Pool..

“Today, we are delivering on two Harmony commitments at once — our commitment to excellence in money management and our pledge to offer top quality, flexible service,” said Larry Herscu, senior vp, product management and development, in a release. “Harmony wraps all the benefits of personalized portfolio management into a single account. It brings investors many of the same comforts generally reserved for large investors, including elite professional management, asset allocation and automatic rebalancing.”

Investment advisors can align their clients with one of the Harmony portfolios constructed from various combinations of underlying investment pools. Alternatively, advisors may customize using individual pools to meet each client’s needs.

McKinley Capital Management Inc. is a global growth specialist founded in 1990 by president and chief investment officer Robert Gillam. The firm employs a bottom-up approach to selecting securities and its investment philosophy, founded on modern portfolio theory, is based on decades of academic research and practical investment industry experience.