Processing securities-related information

A computer-implemented method of providing information relating to at least one mutual fund to a user, the method comprising:

• (A) processing data representing a statutory prospectus issued for the at least one mutual fund to retrieve one or more data elements, each satisfying predefined attributes, from the data, the data representing the statutory prospectus including detailed information corresponding to each of the one or more data elements;
• (B) generating a summary prospectus comprising the one or more data elements;
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• (C) making the summary prospectus available to the user in a form that enables access to the detailed information corresponding to each of the one or more data elements.

A computer-implemented method of processing data representing a statutory prospectus for at least one mutual fund and a summary prospectus corresponding to the statutory prospectus, the method comprising:

• (A) identifying, within the data representing the summary prospectus, one or more data elements, each having at least one attribute within a predefined set of attributes;
• (B) locating, within the data representing the statutory prospectus, one or more portions comprising detailed information, each portion comprising detailed information which corresponds to one of the one or more data elements;
• (C) inserting, within the data representing the summary prospectus, at least one reference for each data element located in (A), wherein each reference for a data element is to a portion corresponding to the data element located in (B);
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• (D) enabling a user to employ a reference inserted in (C) to access a portion of the data located in (B) corresponding to a data element.