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Canadian research firm FundMonitor.com plans to provide Webbased mutual fund research and a rating system for U.S. investors, a move that could push it into giant Morningstar's territory FundMonitor.com believes U.S. investors do not receive adequate research from rating services, in particular Morningstar, to select funds, said Duff Young president. It hopes to distinguish itself by not penalizing load funds-Morningstar subtracts loads from returns-and by providing research that measures performance against custom benchmarks rather than against relative volatility.