The InvestWorks database consists of:
Institutional Firms       1080
Mutual Fund Firms       736
Total Firms   1816
Institutional Domestic Equity Products       2931
Institutional Canadian Equity Products       89
Institutional Int'l/Global Equity Products       1429
Institutional Domestic FixedIncome Products       1319
Institutional Canadian FixedIncome Products       45
Institutional Int'l/Global FixedIncome Products       270
Institutional Domestic Balanced Products       89
Institutional Canadian Balanced Products       26
Institutional Int'l/Global Balanced Products       126
Institutional Total Products   6426
Mutual Fund Domestic Equity Products       9467
Mutual Fund Int'l/Global Equity Products       3690
Mutual Fund Domestic FixedIncome Products       6679
Mutual Fund Int'l/Global FixedIncome Products       573
Mutual Fund Domestic Balanced Products       3708
Mutual Fund Int'l/Global Balanced Products       371
Mutual Fund Total Products   24654
Total Products   31080
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.