DALBAR Launches New Corporate Web Site; Introduction of New Site Coincides With Company's 25th Anniversary.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2001 DALBAR, Inc., the nation's leading financial-services research firm, recently launched the redesigned www.dalbar.com. The new site is a high-level resource for DALBAR'S customers as well as the media. It contains summaries of DALBAR reports, rankings, and a schedule of upcoming releases. Significant industry news and commentary on events affecting the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industry is also provided. A New at DALBAR section provides information about upcoming research and reports. The DALBAR Awards section makes it easy for visitors to find all the winners of a particular DALBAR award; it provides the flexibility to identify the history of awards won by each company. It also provides the latest rankings of financial-services Web sites, covering brokerage, insurance and annuity annuity: see insurance. annuity Payment made at a fixed interval. A common example is the payment received by retirees from their pension plan. There are two main classes of annuities: annuities certain and contingent annuities. , and mutual fund firms that lead the industry in Web-based services. DALBAR designed the new site to be consistent with the standards that it applies to its evaluations. And, on every page of DALBAR'S site, visitors will find a Visitor Reaction Index (VRI VRI Vacation Register International VRI Video Relay Interpreting VRI Vehicle Research Institute (Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington) VRI Venture Research Institute (Lake Forest, California) ) button that gives visitors the opportunity to indicate whether or not they were successful in finding what they needed. (VRI is a DALBAR service that was introduced in February February: see month. 2001.) "We have deployed the technology to tell visitors about our latest studies before they are released as well as to provide a rich history of previously issued reports," said Louis S. Harvey Harvey, city (1990 pop. 29,771), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb S of Chicago; inc. 1895. Its manufactures include steel castings, metal products, chemicals, machinery, and electronic equipment. Harvey has an oil research center. The city was founded by Turlington W. , DALBAR's president. "We are seeking to set a new standard for the quality, currency, and relevance of information available online." Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2001, DALBAR, Inc., the nation's leading financial-services research firm, is committed to raising the standards of excellence in the financial-services industry. With offices in both the US and Canada, DALBAR develops standards for, and provides research, ratings, and rankings of intangible factors to the mutual fund, broker/dealer, discount brokerage A discount brokerage is a business that charges clients significantly lower fees than traditional brokerages, typically offering comparatively fewer services and/or advice. , life insurance, and banking industries. They include investor behavior, customer satisfaction, service quality, communications, Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the services, and financial-professional ratings. |
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