“Incorporating
the latest release of the dtSearch Text Retrieval
Engine, the site now allows greater search
accuracy and ease of use.”
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FundDOCs has released a new state-of-the-art
full-text search system for researching mutual fund
filings. Subscription benefits include:
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Over 8,000 funds with hundreds
of questions answered by the management company
to the S.E.C. |
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Information regarding
service provider, including: administrators,
custodians, shareholder servicing, auditors,
underwriters, and advisers. |
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Rankings of service
providers by fee efficiency (per shareholder
costs), managers, and funds. |
"Full-text searching
allows users to quickly get to the footnotes or
legal text that is needed to make sense of many
of the raw, reported numbers," says the President
of FundDOCs. "Incorporating the latest release
of the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine, the site
now allows greater search accuracy and ease of
use." |
“The
great thing about dtSearch is that they’ve
been doing this for more than 10 years now
and they support just about every kind of
document search request one can think of.”
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"In addition to full-text searching,
dtSearch allows FundDOCs to store ‘meta’
data, or information that isn’t in the document
but is important in describing it, along with
each document index. For example, Goldman Sachs
files its small cap funds under a trust called
‘Season Series.’ Searching other EDGAR
systems, users would not know that ‘Season
Series’ is actually Goldman Sachs. Through
an external matching table, FundDOCs adds Goldman
Sachs to a ‘manager’ field whenever
the index engine comes across a ‘Season Series’
trust document. Even if the name Goldman Sachs
never appears in a prospectus, a user can now
find it."
"There are tens of thousands of documents
in our archives," adds the President of FundDOCs.
"But users like to search on fairly common
phrases, like ‘expense reimbursements’
or ‘administrator contract. Through dtSearch’s
metadata feature we can help them narrow down
the documents they search, by date, manager, filing
type and so forth. FundDOCs also uses many other
powerful features of the dtSearch Engine, including
hit-highlighting and navigation, abstracted relevant-paragraph
reports, natural language searching, date filtering
and so forth. The great thing about dtSearch is
that they’ve been doing this for more than
10 years now and they support just about every
kind of document search request one can think
of."
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