I am looking for a comprehensive list of all of the companies
(investment banks, brokerage firms and money managers) that sell
emerging market equites and or debt to thier clients.  If I can be
pointed to the list, that would be fine.  I can buy the list if
someone sell's it but would prefer to get the list now.  I am
looking for a list of the sellers of these securities not the list of
emerging markets!

Hello -

You may want to consider increaseing the list price of your question to $25-$45.

jbf777-ga
GA Researcher

I put this price on the search because it is not a difficult search
and I am testing the system.  Have not used this before.  My guess is
that this is a 15 minute to one hour search.  Do you have a way of
coming back with quote if you find the information and I can decide
whether to pay it based on whether you found the list and can deliver
it or whether I have to now buy the list?

That is, is there a mechanism whereby you can "put" a price back to me
if you have the answer?...or is this one way?

thanks

I have difficulty commenting on this question because of your use of
the word "sell".

In most cases (in what is called the secondary market) one buys equity
securities (stocks) through a market and one deals with a broker who
acts as "agent" rather than as "principal". In other words, the broker
acts as an intermediary to enable you to buy the security. In such a
case the seller is just the entity that owned that security just
before you and is unknown and unknowable. This is not always the case
-- a broker might act as principal in a transaction because it happens
to own the security for its own account and is willing to sell that
security to you -- but such a broker will often own only a few such
securities, may not want to sell some of those positions, and which
securities it might own and be willing to sell to clients will vary
from day to day. Debt securities (bonds) do tend to be traded in
principal transactions. Still, when individuals and investment
management firms want to buy securities, including emerging market
securities, they will generally deal with a broker. So the list that
you want can be considered to be as long as the list of all brokerage
firms in the world.

The ultimate seller of any security is the entity that issues it, and
that entity might be a corporation, a government, a government agency,
or the like. That's called the primary market. So primary sellers are
generally not financial institutions at all. But primary sales are
usually done in a public offering, whether an initial public offering
(IPO) or a later one, and in such a case the firms "selling" the issue
are investment bankers and will be listed in a prospectus. But these
are "one-off" deals. A corporation or government decides to issue
stock or bonds, a public offering is arranged, bang, it's done, and
the investment bankers who did it are out of the picture: they have
nothing more to sell.

Thus, the primary market is a tiny and short-lived thing; the large
and continuous volumes of securities trades are the secondary market.

So do you have in mind the secondary market or the primary market?

not in the secondary markets but rather in the primary retail markets.
 I would be happy if I could just identify a list of the purveyors of
emmerging market mutual funds ranked by largest fund size ($ under
mgt) to the lowest.  That is, one would think that Tempelton would be
ranked at or near the top insofar as they manage $10B in emerging
markets.  How many of these fund purveyors are out there in the retail
space?  What is the total size under management by those players?  who
are they?

It may be that Morningstar or Lipper would have the list but am quite
certain there are other ways to get at this?  that is really my
question.

Sounds like you have a background in this arena.  Will have more work
at a higher level but would like to cross the first threshold
first...market size and players by $ under mgt.  If you find this list
and want to come back with a price, please feel free to do so.

thnks