Financial Ratings Series Online combines the strength of Weiss Ratings and TheStreet Ratings to offer the library community with a single source for financial strength ratings and financial planning tools covering Banks, Insurers, Mutual Funds and Stocks. This powerful database will provide the accurate, independent information your patrons need to make INFORMED DECISIONS about their financial planning. TheStreet Ratings Guide to Bond & Money Market Mutual Funds provides ratings and analyses of more than 4,200 fixed income funds, more than any other publication, including corporate bond funds, high-yield bond funds, municipal bond funds, mortgage security funds, money market funds, global bond funds and government bond funds. Everything to easily identify the top-performing fixed income funds on the market today, all in one easy-to-use source.* Updated quarterly to provide the user with ratings based on the latest industry information* Important Investor Profile Quiz to determine the user’s level of risk tolerance, with referrals to the funds that best match their needs* Three letter-grade ratings for each fund illustrate the fund’s overall rating, performance rating and risk rating to provide an overall picture of the fund’s risk-adjusted performance* Index of Bond & Money Market Mutual Funds - charts the fund’s letter-grade ratings, fund type, ticker symbol, return totals and percentages, dividend yields, expense ratios, net assets, portfolio turnover rates, average coupon rates, initial purchase minimums and more* Analysis of Largest Bond & Money Market Mutual Funds - with additional data on 380 of the largest funds, with additional data, charts and graphs of major rating factors, historical data, annualized total returns and more* Top & Bottom 200 Bond Mutual Funds - for easy location of the best and worst funds*100 Best & Worst Bond Mutual Funds based on Performance and Risk* Top-Rated Bond Mutual Funds by Risk Category & Fund Type* Available in print and online database formats TheStreet Ratings Guide to Bond & Money Market Mutual Funds gives user-friendly, objective evaluations that make it easy to compare one fund to another and direct users to the right fund based on their level of risk tolerance. This important resource will be useful to both the investing novice or professional, and will be a must for public libraries of all sizes. TheStreet Ratings Guides TheStreet’s rating scale is extremely straightforward and easy to understand. There are no complicated number grades to interpret, no colored paper to decode, and no stars to count. Instead, each entry gets a simple, intuitive letter grade that immediately identifies the wheat from the chaff. This is one more reason why TheStreet Ratings is widely recognized as America’s Consumer Advocate for Financial Safety. The TheStreet Safety Ratings have been proven to be the most accurate available from any of the major rating agencies. Plus, unlike the other major rating agencies, TheStreet does not accept compensation from the companies it rates, and thus does not allow companies to influence the ratings they receive or to suppress the release of their ratings. In fact, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) validated TheStreet’s accuracy in its Insurance Ratings study, and that same superior rating methodology is used when deriving all other ratings as well.
