The InvestWorks database consists of:
Institutional Firms       1038
Mutual Fund Firms       641
Total Firms   1679
Institutional Domestic Equity Products       2891
Institutional Canadian Equity Products       75
Institutional Int'l/Global Equity Products       1281
Institutional Domestic FixedIncome Products       1227
Institutional Canadian FixedIncome Products       36
Institutional Int'l/Global FixedIncome Products       233
Institutional Domestic Balanced Products       100
Institutional Canadian Balanced Products       16
Institutional Int'l/Global Balanced Products       112
Institutional Total Products   6074
Mutual Fund Domestic Equity Products       9308
Mutual Fund Int'l/Global Equity Products       3429
Mutual Fund Domestic FixedIncome Products       6578
Mutual Fund Int'l/Global FixedIncome Products       406
Mutual Fund Domestic Balanced Products       3370
Mutual Fund Int'l/Global Balanced Products       226
Mutual Fund Total Products   23370
Total Products   29444
About Our Database

Information on separate account composites, commingled funds and managed (WRAP) accounts is collected and compiled by the Investment Metrics Database Group. Over 1,000 investment firms provide information on over 6,000 investment products, through the EQuest web-based data collection site.

If you are an investment manager who would like to add your information to EQuest, please contact us.

Mutual fund data is provided by Lipper®, which includes information on over 570 mutual fund companies and 19,000 funds.

Peer Groups and Benchmarks

A peer group on InvestWorks.com is defined as a series of investment products with similar investment objectives. Investment products are assigned to peer groups based on a research-based, asset class specific methodologies.

Industry standard benchmarks are provided on InvestWorks.com for the purpose of comparing investment products and peer groups in reports and graphs.