Series 6: 1.3.5.2. Investment Company Rankings

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1.3.5.2.  Investment Company Rankings

Member firms may not use a ranking of investment companies in any retail communication unless it was created and published by a ranking entity or based on a ranking entity’s performance measurements. A ranking entity is any company (such as Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s) that provides independent general information about investment companies to the public and whose services are not procured by the investment company to assign a ranking.

All retail communications containing an investment company ranking must disclose prominently:

  • Name of the category (e.g., growth)
  • Number of investment companies in the category
  • Name of the ranking entity
  • Length of the ranking period and its ending date
  • Criteria (such as yield or total return) on which the ranking is based

Such communications must also disclose the fact that past performance i

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