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Morningstar, Inc. is an investment research and investment management firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. ==History== Founder Joe Mansueto initially had the idea for Morningstar in 1982 while reviewing mutual fund annual reports he had requested from several prominent fund managers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/19990701/811.html )〕 However, it was only after a year working as a stock analyst for Harris Associates, seeing the fund industry and potential competitors up close, that he was convinced that the opportunity was there.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://morningstaradviser.com/articles/comments.asp?docId=4490 )〕 Morningstar was subsequently founded in 1984 from his one-bedroom Chicago apartment with an initial investment of US$80,000. The name ''Morningstar'' is taken from the last sentence in ''Walden'', a book by Henry David Thoreau; "the sun is but a morning star".〔 In July 1999 Morningstar accepted an investment of US$91 million from SoftBank in return for a 20% stake in the company. The two companies had the previous year formed a joint venture in Japan.〔 Morningstar's initial public offering occurred on May 3, 2005, with 7,612,500 shares at $18.50 each.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://corporate.morningstar.com/US/asp/subject.aspx?xmlfile=174.xml&filter=PR4113 )〕 The manner in which Morningstar went public is notable. They elected to follow Google's footsteps and use the OpenIPO method rather than the traditional method. This allowed individual investors to bid on the price of the stock, and allowed all investors equal access. As of February 2015, Joe Mansueto owned approximately 55% of the outstanding shares in Morningstar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/insider-activity.action?t=MORN®ion=usa&culture=en-US&ownerCountry=USA )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morningstar, Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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