Finance Resource Guide: Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, and Pension Funds

Free access to extensive mutual fund performance data, plus stock quotes and key company ratios, and news.

The ICI is the national association of the U.S. investment company industry. Its website includes texts of news releases, congressional testimony, comment letters, research publications, and policy papers. Provides industry statistics, mutual fund and closed-end fund statistics, as well as unit investment trust data.

Yahoo's Mutual Fund Center is a valuable, comprehensive site for investors. Includes a daily quote look-up, current news, and a Stock Screener, which searches funds by selected criteria, including fund family, rank, rating, performance, price, and more. Lists historic top performers by category. Provides free fund prospectuses, and links to educational material and glossary.

The HFA is an international not-for-profit association of hedge fund service providers and investors. The site provides information describing hedge funds and investing in such. Includes articles on hedge fund strategies plus press releases and news.

The IRI is a nonprofit trade association for industry, financial advisors and consumers. This website offers information and resources to assist in understanding annuities and the role of these products in financial retirement planning. IRI provides the industry with educational coursework, consumer pamphlets, industry statistics, and research.

An "international financial newspaper for institutional investing and fund management." Provides full-text of the 2004 Pension Fund Directory, 2004 Money Manager Directory, and 2004 Global Money Manager Directory, covering rankings and total assets for top plans. News and other valuable material is available only with a paid subscription.

"PBGC is a federal government corporation established by Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to encourage the continuation and maintenance of defined benefit pension plans, provide timely and uninterrupted payment of pension benefits to participants and beneficiaries in plans covered by PBGC, and keep pension insurance premiums at the lowest level necessary to carry out the Corporation's objectives." Includes forms, factsheets, and pension insurance data.