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Revenue in the Investment Information segment rose 15% in 2010, but operating income was down 8%. . 

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Our annual dividend rate is 20 cents per share or about a 0.4% yield based on our stock price at the end of 2010. This rate represents a payout ratio of about 12% of after-tax earnings. Our board will review our dividend and payout ratios on a regular basis. 

## Investment Information 

This operating segment contains our data, software, and research product lines. Revenue in this segment rose 15% to $445 million in 2010, and operating income fell 8%. 

## Data 

Our goal is to build the world’s best investment databases, which means having the most accurate, timely, and complete data for each data set. We track 380,000 global securities including managed products (mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds ( ETFs), separate accounts, and hedge funds) and equities. We track funds in 114 countries, up from 82 in 2009. We also have real-time prices on more than 5 million securities from 160 sources, including most of the world’s major stock exchanges, as well as currencies, futures, and options. 

We’re working to add third-party content to our offerings and recently signed a deal with Interactive Data Corporation to supply fixed-income data to our clients. We realize we can’t create every database our clients want and need to complement our data with leading third-party sources. 

Liz Kirscher runs our global data business and is focused on continually improving data quality. We invest significantly not only in data analysts to keep up with the ever-expanding number of securities, but 

