With Susan Ferris Wyderko of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum.(One on One)

Investment News, February, 2007

Byline: Sara Hansard Susan Ferris Wyderko's experience in investor education provides the background she needs to help educate independent directors as executive director of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum in Washington. Following the mutual fund scandals in recent years, independent fund directors have been called on to exercise more due diligence over their funds.

To do that, they need more education. Shortly after the forum was started in 2002, the Washington-based Investment Company Institute followed suit with its own independent-directors group, the Independent Directors Council. Don Phillips, a managing director with Morningstar Inc. in Chicago, sees that as a testament to how effective the forum has been from the start. "This...

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