DST announced today that since the inception of its eStatements solution in November 2005, nearly 23,000 advisors have subscribed to the service and nearly 4.5 million copies of individual statements (more than 15 million pages) have been delivered. Twelve management companies, including AIM Investments, American Funds, MFS and OppenheimerFunds, participate in the solution, and DST expects the number of participating management companies to double in 2007.

Vision eStatements enables mutual fund and variable annuity companies to eliminate printing and mailing expenses of shareholder and dealer statements to the intermediaries that sell their products. These intermediaries receive customer records by downloading a single electronic file and saving it to various storage media.

"Since adopting Vision's eStatement solution a year ago, MFS has reduced paper statement volume by more than 50 percent," said Brian Shaw, vice president, MFS. "In doing so, we have afforded financial advisors easier, more timely access to statements."