May 1, 2008

MORNING STAR

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MORNING STAR

      The Morning Star is known as a leading provider of independent investment research in the United States and in other parts of the world with major international markets. The mission of the Morning Star is to create great products that would help investors attain all of their financial goals. Some of the things Morning Star offers are extensive lines of Internet, software, and print-based products. These are offered not just for individual investors but also for financial advisors and institutional clients. You can rely on the Morning Star and all its information on things like the stocks, mutual funds, variable annuities, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, hedge funds, and about 529 college savings plan. The Morning Star operates in as many as 18 countries and they are known to provide excellent data on about 260,000 investment offerings.

What are some of the products and services that Morning Star provides? It has committed itself to the highest quality data and research to meet the demands of investors whenever they ask how they can manage investments to meet their financial goals. Let’s first start with services they provide to individuals. Morning Star tries to help investors make educated investment decisions. The tool for this is the Morning Star.com, one that ranks consistently as one of the best investment sites on the worldwide web.

Morning Star also offers services for financial advisors and other investment professionals. Morning Star gives them tools to aid them in the research of their investment ideas. They are also aided when it comes to analyzing and supporting these ideas. The Morning Star offers a professional software and Web-based products for their comprehensive content and flexible functionality. For the institutions, Morning Star helps provide information for mutual fund companies, retirement plan providers, banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, and others.

How the Morning Star Company did came about? It came about because there was a dire need for comprehensive information about investments. Morning Star started around 1984 when the founders of the company thought that the information about fund performance is not readily available to investors. The 1980s mutual fund industry was experiencing dramatic growth during this time. Investors lacked the tools that they needed in order to track, analyze, and make intelligent decisions about mutual funds. Joe Mansueto, the founder of Morning Star believed that this crucial information should be widely available for individual investors and companies alike. This provided mutual fund analysis and commentary for those who needed it.

 

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