Ticker Talk

Thousand Oaks-based HomeStore.com Inc., which runs https://www.realtor.com and other Web sites with real estate listings and related content, filed for an initial public offering Tuesday to raise as much as $100 million. The company, whose backers include venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls its group of Web sites “the leading real estate destination on the Internet.” . . . Wayne, Pa.-based Pilgrim Baxter & Associates Ltd., a money-management firm with $11 billion in assets, has removed James McCall as manager of four mutual funds after contesting his right to take a job at Merrill Lynch & Co. A group of fund managers led by Gary Pilgrim, chief investment officer at Pilgrim Baxter, replaced McCall on Friday as manager of the PBHG Large Cap Growth, PBHG Large Cap 20 and PBHG Select Equity funds. Jeff Wrona took over the PBHG Core Growth Fund.