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summary prospectus

Master the latest wrinkle: Summary Prospectus requirements. The Summary Prospectus rule is straightforward, but fund companies have many options and many choices to make in order to maximize benefits and minimize costs. Look to Bowne for all the right tools for the job and sound consultative advice on the best solution to meet your goals and circumstances.

  • Customized prospectus design fits your unique requirements
  • Simplify your information with plain language content
  • Content consulting helps determine the most appropriate Summary language and layout
  • Content management systems streamline and automate Summary workflows
  • Full-service composition readies your documents for production at the touch of a button
  • Shareholder data analysis and Customized Investor Books improve distribution
  • Integrated offset and digital printing let's you choose the method that best meets your distribution requirements

The Summary Prospectus rule introduces new challenges — and new opportunities — into the ways you manage, create and distribute your disclosure documents. Bowne's solutions capitalize on our knowledge of document management to help you handle these challenges and capture the savings benefits of the Summary Prospectus. With our end-to-end solution, adopting the rule is both easy and highly cost-efficient.

  • Getting Started – Learn about the benefits of Summary Prospectus
    Use our in-depth resources to learn more about the Summary Prospectus rule, its challenges and potential benefits, and how you can most effectively integrate the additional documentation into your existing workflow. Then work with the Bowne|Firehouse team to identify the strategy that will maximize both the benefits and the potential savings your organization can realize.


  • Step One – Summarize, Simplify, Stylize
    Using best practices in plain language, information design and simplification, the Bowne|Firehouse Summary System creates an attractive, customized, easy to maintain four-page Summary Prospectus. Unique in the industry, this system is fast, affordable and designed to address the key considerations of Legal, Marketing, and other stakeholders, making it a win for all concerned.


  • Step Two – Edit, Manage, File
    Manage content for your Summary Prospectus, Summary section and Statutory — all in one place — then automate the composition of finished documents. A content management system will reduce the risk and complexity associated with managing variations in language across multiple documents and will significantly streamline your processes. We offer a range of content management tools designed to meet your workflow needs, from a traditional team of typesetters to fully automated composition. When the document is complete, rely on the leading EDGAR filer to submit your finished document to the SEC.


  • Step Three – Host the documents
    Rest assured we can help you comply with the Summary rule's stringent requirements regarding hosting and electronic and hard copy document delivery. Not only that, we can do it all at the same time we help you realize additional cost reductions.

    Bowne E-Presentment, powered by Mobular Technologies, is an SEC-compliant solution that enables investors to quickly navigate between documents. The solution offers:
    • Compliance with the two-click rule, through navigation between tables of contents or from section to section
    • Automated updating and linking of documents from Bowne's composition services, increasing your control and reducing manual risk
    • True ease-of-use for implementing all types of updates
    • No need for manual document modification and insertion of static hyperlinks — an especially important point when dealing with supplements
    • Automation of linking


  • Step 4 - Print and Mail
    Using sophisticated technology, we will analyze your shareholder data, remove redundancies and identify the most efficient approach. Our Customized Investor Book solution combines investor ownership pattern analysis and on-demand printing to create targeted investor communications. With our varied, flexible print platform and e-presentment and fulfillment services, you can review multiple production and pricing models and select the one that works best for your data. We will help you eliminate waste, streamline production and enhance your investors' experience by sending them only the information they need.

Working with us is the best way to ensure that you find the most cost-effective mix of strategies and technologies to meet delivery and tracking requirements of the Summary rule.

About Firehouse Financial Communications

Creators of the 1991 simplified prospectus system that began the trend toward investor-friendly disclosure, Firehouse has developed prospectuses for over 900 mutual funds. Firehouse clients include many top fund complexes as well as major banks and Wall Street firms.

Firehouse specializes in combining information architecture, simplified design, and plain language to reduce costs while also improving marketing, document management, legal protection, and the shareholder experience.

About Mobular Technologies

Mobular Technologies facilitates the delivery of dozens of different types of financial, compliance and personal documents through its proprietary microsite technology platform. Used by the top financial services and stock transfer agencies in the world, and serving a third of the Fortune 50 companies (including five of the top global brands), they are the gold standard for shareholder communications technology.

In response to Rule 498, Mobular's development team has designed a product that requires no human intervention, does not require opening of PDF documents, applies links consistently and automatically, and meets the same-day web availability requirements of the SEC.