Capital IQ's New AlphaWorks Provides Industry's First View into Economic Regimes' Impact on Stock Selection

NEW YORK, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business and leading provider of fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions, today released a new version of AlphaWorks, its market-leading quantitative stock selection web platform.  

AlphaWorks' new Regime Monitor allows portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, and fundamental analysts to quickly compare and contrast the return and portfolio characteristics of over 400 stock selection signals across over 40 economic, market, and regulatory regimes.

In addition to its new Regime Monitor, AlphaWorks' new release also includes:

• Expansion of the AlphaWorks factor library to over 400 stock selection signals
• Over 150 new Industry-Relative and 5-Year Historical Relative factors
• Full North American coverage with addition of the S&P TSX Index
• New Seasonality page detailing the efficacy and calendar effects on stock selection
• New Sector detail page enabling quick comparison of sector performance
• New Factor Comparison page enabling detailed cross comparison of all stock selection signals and styles

Carson Boneck, managing director at Capital IQ said, "Increasingly quantitative and fundamental investors are looking to better understand the impact of the macro-economic environment on portfolio construction and investing. With AlphaWorks' new Regime Monitor, investors can quickly look across our 400+ stock selection signals and understand which factors perform best and when."  Mr. Boneck continued, "We hope to make AlphaWorks the industry's leading portal for quantitative insight and research, and these new enhancements are an important step toward that goal."

About Capital IQ and Standard & Poor's

Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, delivers comprehensive fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions to over 4,200 investment management firms, investment banks, private equity funds, advisory firms, corporations, and universities worldwide. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, Compustat, ClariFI, and AlphaWorks products, and offer an array of powerful applications for desktop research, screening, real-time market data, backtesting, portfolio management, financial modeling, and quantitative analysis. For more information, please visit Capital IQ's web site at www.capitaliq.com.

Standard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With offices in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit www.standardandpoors.com

SOURCE Capital IQ