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The New York Stock Exchange
This link to the Fact Book shows the year in review - trends, market performance, the global marketplace and the happenings of the listed companies.

http://www.nasdaq.com
The NASDAQ is home to over 4,000 companies and trades more shares per day than any other US market.

Standard & Poor databases
S&P free information from its databases on mutual funds.

Institutional Articles library from Russell
Institutional Articles library authored by its capital markets team, which conducts research in performance measurement, strategic and tactical asset allocation, style classification, and risk analysis for global securities markets.

Money central
Directory of mutual funds. The Fund Family directory allows you to see all of the funds within a family and to review their investment objectives.

Thomson
Thomson provides information, with technology and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. It serves more than 20 million information users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, financial services, scientific research and healthcare.

Investment Company Institute
The ICI is the national association of the American investment company industry Its membership includes approximately 8,935 mutual funds, 559 closed-ended funds, 105 exchange-traded funds, and six sponsors of unit investment trusts. Its mutual fund members represent more than 90 million individual shareholders and manage approximately $6.4 trillion in investor assets.

Factset databases
FactSet is a comprehensive, one-stop source of financial information and analytics for investment managers, investment bankers, and other financial professionals. Its aggregated data library offers a broad array of financial, market, and economic information, including fundamental data on tens of thousands of companies and securities worldwide. Clients can also search for specific data and download it directly into a spreadsheet or different application to create a customized report.

EdgarScan
EdgarScan is an interface to the United States SEC filings. EdgarScan pulls filings from the SEC's servers and parses them to find tables and financials to a common format to compare companies.

Nelson Marketplace
Part of Thomson Financial; focuses on fund managers.

Securities and Exchange Commission
The primary mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets. The world of investing is fascinating and complex. But unlike the banking world, where deposits are guaranteed by the federal government, stocks, bonds and other securities can lose value. There are no guarantees. 

TrustNet UK
TrustNet (affiliation with Thomson Financial) provides information you need on all UK Unit Trusts, OEICs, Investment Trusts, Pension Funds, Life Funds, Venture Capital Trusts and Exchange Traded Funds. Trustnet databases

Institutional Investor journals
InstitutionalInvestor.com is a site for financial professionals, providing a selection of daily news, analysis, editorial, weekly polls, universal search engine, and specific channel email alerts. It also has a wealth of specialist financial information on specifics like mutual funds and institutional trading.

Ohio State Univ. links
Ohio State Univ. links to Finance Journals, Institutional working papers, personal working papers, research centers, etc.

Lipper
Lipper, a Reuters company, is a global leader in supplying mutual fund information and analytical tools. Lipper's benchmarking provides a guidepost to asset managers, fund companies, financial intermediaries, and individual investors. Experts provide perspective on an array of issues such as overall trends in the fund business, fund performance, internet's impact on funds, closed-end funds, fund investor issues, and fund fees and expenses.

CISDM
CISDM (Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets) is a non-profit academic research center that focuses on security and investment fund performance in both U.S. and international asset markets. The goals of CISDM are to facilitate research in both traditional and alternative investment markets, to promote interactions between the academic and business communities, and to make available CISDM educational material on international financial markets to financial and non-financial firms.