Aimfunds.com Among Top 10 Mutual Fund Web Sites.Business Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2000 A I M Management Group Inc. (AIM), announced today that AIM's Web site, www.aimfunds.com, again has been rated by DALBAR Inc. as the best among fund companies whose products are sold through financial consultants. In addition, the site received an overall designation of "Excellent." AIM is an indirect subsidiary of AMVESCAP PLC (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVZ) one of the world's largest independent investment services companies. DALBAR Inc. is an independent organization that provides performance evaluations Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return on the quality of all areas of customer service for mutual fund companies. In conducting the study, DALBAR awarded points to each Web site based on functionality, usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. , content currency and experience. Functionality, which comprises 35% of the score, pertains to the quality and range of pertinent information and services available to the user. Usability (30%) is defined as the user's ease in navigating (networking, hypertext) navigating - Finding your way around. Often used of the Internet, particularly the World-Wide Web. A browser is a tool for navigating hypertext documents. the site, ability to locate important information quickly and easily, and the ability to access help when using the site. Content Currency (20%) is determined by evaluating the quality, relevance, and timeliness of all functions provided on the site. Experience (15%) is based on the experience of the user navigating the site, including inaccessible inaccessible Surgery adjective Unreachable; referring to a lesion that unmanageable by standard surgical techniques–eg, lesions deep in the brain or adjacent to vital structures–ie, not accessible. See Accessible. sites, system crashes, incomplete links and slow response times. AIM's Web site earned the highest marks among fund companies whose products are sold through financial consultants in the areas of functionality and usability. "Providing easily accessible information and customized services to our clients is one of the primary goals of aimfunds.com," said Margaret Reilly Vinson, AIM's director of electronic commerce. "To be recognized again by DALBAR for our efforts is a welcome validation of the hard work our entire electronic commerce group has made in developing our company's Web site." AIM was founded in 1976 and ranks as the nation's eighth-largest mutual fund complex, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. independent mutual fund monitor Strategic Insight, with approximately $176 billion in assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. and 8 million shareholders as of June 30, 2000. AIM is subsidiary of AMVESCAP PLC, one of the world's largest independent investment services companies with $389 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2000. |
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