Will Digital Freight Apps Sound the Death Knell for Truck Brokers?
Digital freight-matching companies, or DFMs, such as Uber Freight have entered the asset-light truck brokerage space over the past few years. It's early in their evolution, but most DFMs hope to reinvent the truckload shipping process via highly automated marketplaces that can match shippers and truckers on demand. At times, this has caused investor trepidation regarding the potential threat to traditional providers, and that is likely to recur, creating buying opportunities for the informed. We...Landstar System is an asset-light provider of integrated transportation management solutions. The company provides services to its customers across transportation modes, throughout the U.S. and to a lesser extent in Canada and Mexico, and between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico and other countries around the world. The company has two segments: transportation logistics, which provides truck services, rail intermodal services, as well as air and ocean services; and insurance, which is comprised of Signature Insurance Company, an offshore insurance subsidiary, and Risk Management Claim Services, Inc. The company's insurance segment provides risk and claim management services to certain of its operating subsidiaries.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.
Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.
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