PROCESSING SECURITIES-RELATED INFORMATION

摘要

Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for improving clarity of disclosure materials provided to investors, by enabling securities issuers, intermediaries and/or other entities to create and disseminate clear and concise summary-level information on individual securities to investors to enable informed investment decisions. The information may include a summary version of the full statutory prospectus (a “summary prospectus”). A summary prospectus may include a concise, “plain English” synopsis and/or representation of certain information contained in the full statutory prospectus, such as a security's investment objectives and strategies, costs, risks and/or other information.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of processing a body of data representing a prospectus issued for at least one mutual fund, the method comprising:
(A) locating, within the body of data, one or more data elements each having at least one attribute within a predefined set of attributes; (B) inserting one or more markers into the body of data to indicate the presence of the data element(s) located in (A); (C) using the marker(s) inserted in (B), generating a representation of the prospectus; and (D) making the representation of the prospectus available for a recipient to access.