Barron's Names Morningstar.Net One of Top 10 Investment Web Sites.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 1998--Morningstar.Net (http://www.morningstar.net), the online product of Morningstar, Inc., the leading investment information and analysis firm, has been selected as one of the top 10 investment Web sites by Barron's, the Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance business and financial weekly, for the second year in a row. In its October 26, 1998, issue, Barron's says Morningstar.Net "is a mecca for individual investors, whether they're into funds or individual stocks, and repeats as one of Barron's Top 10." Barron's goes on to praise the site's layout and content, noting, "Morningstar.Net's simplicity belies its depth; it's a clean, fast site." In judging its top 10, Barron's says it scrutinizes a Web site's ease of use, depth and usefulness of data, editorial content, level of interactivity, timeliness, and price. Other Web sites among the Top 10 include Yahoo, CNNfn, and Quicken A popular financial management program for PCs and Macs from Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.intuit.com). It is used to write checks, organize investments and produce a variety of reports for personal finance and small business. .com. "Our history of unbiased research and analysis provides an edge. Site users know they can trust the information they read on our site," said Cebra Graves, editor of Morningstar.Net. This recognition is in addition to other praise Morningstar.Net has earned. It has been deemed one of Worth magazine's nine favorite investing Web sites and has been dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "the indispensable mutual fund site to bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. " by Money magazine. SmartMoney has called the site one of the "top 10 most valuable sites for investors," and HomePC magazine's "Best of the Web" issue named Morningstar.Net among the top 10 financial Web sites. Morningstar.Net helps investors through all stages of the investment process - Learn, Plan, Research, Invest, Monitor, and Socialize so·cial·ize v. so·cial·ized, so·cial·iz·ing, so·cial·iz·es v.tr. 1. To place under government or group ownership or control. 2. To make fit for companionship with others; make sociable. . In addition, the site includes in-depth profiles of more than 15,000 stocks and mutual funds, and exclusive online editorial such as Stock Analyst's Journal, Morningstar Fund Spy, and The Guest Room. The site makes continual improvements Continual Improvement (also called incremental improvement or staircase improvement) is a process or productivity improvement tool intended to have a stable and consistent growth and improvement of all the segments of a process or processes. in response to its customers' needs. Most recently, Morningstar.Net added comprehensive Quicktake reports on 450 closed-end funds Closed-end fund An investment company that issues shares like any other corporation and usually does not redeem its shares. A publicly traded fund sold on stock exchanges or over the counter that may trade above or below its net asset value. Related: Open-end fund. , investment vehicles for which quality, detailed information had not previously been available at a price individual investors could afford. About Morningstar Morningstar, Inc. is a leading, independent investment-information firm providing complete and unbiased data, research, and analysis of mutual funds, stocks, and variable annuities Variable annuities Investment contracts whose issuer pays a periodic amount linked to the investment performance of an underlying portfolio. . Morningstar.Net, the company's interactive investment Web site, features original editorial content that is updated daily. For more information about Morningstar, visit www.morningstar.com or call 800-735-0700. |
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