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A Purely American Invention: The U.S. Open-End Mutual Fund Industry
Lee L. Gremillion
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A Purely American Invention: The U.S. Open-End Mutual Fund Industry targets
the needs of three audiences.
First, it seeks to help mutual fund industry
employees who wish to gain an understanding of both the breadth of fund
operations and the context in which they are performed.
Many industry
members know only a limited subset of mutual fund functions- because they
are new to the industry, or because their experience has been limited to a
narrow functional area.
Business students studying the mutual fund
industry form the second target audience. The mutual fund industry has
grown in size andimportance to a point where mutual fund operations are
taught as a subject in both undergratduate and MBA curricula.
This book
serves as a text book for such courses, laying out for students what fund
companies do, what their management functions and issues are, and how they
evolved to their present form.
Finally, this book is for the general
reader, perhaps him- or herself a mutual fund investor, who seeks to
understand more about the industry.
Many individuals, when face with an
unfamiliar phenomenon, naturally ask the question, "How does this thing
work?" This book is intended for those whose curiosity prompts them to
ask this question about mutual funds and the U.S. open-end fund industry.
About the AuthorLee Gremillion is a partner with PricwaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he leads
the Investment Management and Securities Operations consulting group in
the Midwest.
His practice focuses on operations and systems within
investment industry organizations such as mutual funds, insurance
companies, investment managers, pension administrators, and banks.
He
earned a doctoral degree from the Harvard Business School, and has been a
professor of Management Information Systems at Indiana University and
Boston University.
Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, he worked for
IBM and The Colonial Group. Dr. Gremillion has been an active member of
NICSA for almost ten years.
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Lee L. Gremillion
![]() | | | Book Description | | A Purely American Invention: The U.S. Open-End Mutual Fund Industry targets
the needs of three audiences. First, it seeks to help mutual fund industry
employees who wish to gain an understanding of both the breadth... read full editorial |
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A Purely American Invention: The U.S. Open-End Mutual Fund Industry
Lee L. Gremillion
![]() | | | Well written, even-handed, and packed with information | | (Columbia, SC) December 16, 2000 - 5.0/5 stars | | The back cover of this book has a brief biography of the author, and it
seems that the book benefits from his diverse background. His time as a
professor shows in his insistence on backing up all his assertions with
hard... read full review |
![]() | | | Well written, even-handed, and packed with information | | (Columbia, SC) December 19, 2000 - 5.0/5 stars | | This book is written in a clear, non-academic, and easy-to-follow style.
And even though he generally speaks well of the industry, the author does
not sugar-coat it. A number of illustrative anecdotes (the book is full... read full review |
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