There are 1,029 transfer agents in the United States. They maintain 300,000,000 securityholder accounts.
Agents specialize by type of securityholder.
Most securityholder accounts are mutual fund holders. Others are equity, corporate and municipal debt, and limited partnership accounts. The list below has twenty U.S. commercial equity transfer agents, a contact name and telephone number, number of shareholder accounts maintained, and the overall score received from their clients in the 2000 survey.