INVESCO and Kemper Take Top Honors in DALBAR 1st Quarter Web Rankings for Consumers and Financial Professionals.

Business Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000

DALBAR, Inc. announced the results of the first quarter survey of top mutual fund Web Sites. Results show that INVESCO is leading the mutual fund industry in Web support when viewed from the perspective of consumers. Kemper's efforts to support financial professionals have made it the best in that critical arena.

These findings are drawn from DALBAR's daily monitoring of financial services Web sites. The mutual fund industry's best 25 Web sites are selected for monitoring. Evaluations are based on three major categories, functionality, ease of use and editorial content.

Mutual fund Web sites were found to be superior to insurance providers (Rankings released May 8, 2000). While only four insurers qualified for an Excellent DALBAR rating for consumers and none for financial professionals, twelve mutual fund consumer and two professional sites qualified for Excellent ratings. Like insurers, however, mutual funds are supporting consumers far more effectively than the support provided to professionals.

Mutual fund companies are generally very strong in functionality and ease of use but falter on editorial content. "It is the frequency of updating and quality of content that separates the best from the rest" said Louis S Harvey, DALBAR's president. "While it is laudable to engineer a great site, visitors will only come back if content is vitally interesting and dynamic."

DALBAR Inc. was formed in 1976 and provides benchmarks and ratings for financial services companies.

                           DALBAR WebMonitor
                    Mutual Fund Consumer Web Sites
                      1st Quarter, 2000 Rankings

RANK                  Company            TOTAL Function  Ease    Ed
                                         SCORE          of Use Content
                 Highest Possible Score   100     60      25      15

                                   Excellent

 1                    INVESCO              96     58      25      13
 2                   Vanguard              94     57      22      15
 3                    Strong               92     56      25      11
 4                      AIM                90     55      24      11
 5               American Century          89     57      20      12
 5                   Fidelity              89     57      21      11
 7                  Oppenheimer            86     52      22      12
 8                    Scudder              85     52      22      11
 8                 T. Rowe Price           85     54      24      7
 8                  Van Kampen             85     50      24      11
11                  Montgomery             82     51      22      9
12                 John Hancock            81     50      22      9
12                    Kemper               81     46      21      14
12                      MFS                81     49      23      9

                                   Very Good

15                G.E. Financial           79     49      23      7
15                    Putnam               79     47      20      12
15             State Street Research       79     48      20      11
18                     Janus               78     47      22      9
18                   One Group             78     45      23      10
20                 Gabelli Funds           77     48      20      9
21                     PIMCO               76     45      22      9
22                  Alger Funds            75     44      21      10
22                Founders Funds           75     48      19      8
24              Franklin Templeton         73     40      22      11
25                    Dreyfus              72     43      21      8



                           DALBAR WebMonitor
             Mutual Fund Financial Professional Web Sites
                      1st Quarter, 2000 Rankings

Rank               Company               TOTAL Function  Ease    Ed
                                         SCORE          of Use Content

Highest Possible Score                    100     60      25     15

                                    Excellent

 1                 Kemper                  89     53      21     15
 2                Fidelity                 80     49      20     11

                                    Very Good

 3               Oppenheimer               73     40      21     12
 4                 INVESCO                 71     37      22     12
 4                 Putnam                  71     41      21      9

                                         Good

 6              John Hancock               68     38      18     12
 7                Vanguard                 66     38      21      7
 8                   AIM                   63     29      21     13
 9            American Century             62     36      18      8
10           Franklin Templeton            60     33      18      9

                        NO DALBAR DESIGNATION

11             American Funds              58     30      19      9
11               Van Kampen                58     28      23      7
13                   MFS                   56     27      20      9
14                 Scudder                 54     26      21      7
14                 Strong                  54     29      17      8
14              T. Rowe Price              54     28      20      6
17                 Dreyfus                 50     26      16      8
17                 Phoenix                 50     23      20      7
19               Chase Vista               48     23      17      8
20               Alger Funds               47     18      22      7
20                  PIMCO                  47     21      18      8
22                Westcore                 46     20      20      6
23              Goldman Sachs              45     22      16      7
23               Montgomery                45     20      18      7
25                Founders                 43     14      22      7
25                One Group                43     16      19      8
25          State Street Research          43     13      18     12