Informa's Zephyr Wins 2022 FinTech Breakthrough Award for Best Financial Research and Data Company

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Apr 11, 2022, 10:18 ET

Zephyr's investment management platform earns international recognition for superior technology breakthroughs

NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zephyr, a subsidiary of Informa plc (LSE: INF), and a recognized leader in investment management technology for wealth managers and advisors, has been awarded the 2022 FinTech Breakthrough Award for Best Financial Research and Data Company.

The honor follows a breakthrough year of innovations and advancements for the Zephyr platform. In addition to enhancing users' research and screening capabilities, the company unveiled Portfolio DNA, Proposal Generation, Portfolio Performance and ESG Ratings and Reviews in 2021. Zephyr also announced a series of partnerships, first with Digital Financial, fully integrating Zephyr with all trust, accounting and custodial systems; and AppCrown, making it possible to fully connect Zephyr with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud and other Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.

"The relationship between clients and their advisors is changing and investors now have access to advisors 24/7 and everything that was once a manual process – for instance, aggregating client and prospect data – is now fully automated," said James Johnson, Managing Director, FinTech Breakthrough. "Zephyr is pioneering the investor experience relationship, transforming how clients work with advisors and enables advisors to showcase their value via significant research and data. Congratulations to the entire Zephyr team on winning the 'Best Financial Research and Data Company' award."

"We are extremely honored that Zephyr has been chosen for this important recognition by FinTech Breakthrough," adds Christopher Volpe, Head of Informa Financial Intelligence's Zephyr business. "The word 'breakthrough' truly defines Zephyr and the work of our talented team who have worked hard to provide a superior fintech solution that offers significant competitive advantages for investment professionals. We appreciate being included in this well-respected award program and send our congratulations out to all the winners."

The Zephyr platform launched in 2019 providing extensive research capabilities as well as an asset allocation tool allowing wealth managers and advisors to build portfolios using classic mean variance optimization via its sophisticated Black-Litterman optimization module. Users could estimate the probability of meeting future wealth goals using the Monte Carlo simulation module, and quickly and easily evaluate a portfolios composition including asset allocation, equity and fixed income characteristics, sector and regional weightings, top ten holdings and country exposure. In 2020, Zephyr added data analytics featuring screening capabilities with extensive filtering capabilities and statistical tools that could also track and compare investment products and returns based style analysis using 200 plus key statistics.

"Investment professionals will dominate this decade," says Randy Jones, Director of Product Management at Zephyr. "We see school systems now requiring financial understanding, Baby Boomers transferring their assets to their children and grandchildren, and significant interest in alternative investing. We have truly entered an era of great opportunity for wealth managers and advisors. Zephyr provides the speed, functionality and research to take advantage of this extraordinary time."

Zephyr's newest enhancement, Portfolio Performance, is a performance measurement and benchmarking tool for wealth managers, trust officers, institutional and private wealth advisors. Designed for timeliness and accuracy, users can quickly and efficiently analyze performance and calculate returns at various levels, including total portfolio, class level, subclass or style level, and individual asset level. Extensive benchmarking from over 1000 market indices is also possible with customized presentation tools to easily create client reports from the data with drag and drop technology.

Learn more about the Zephyr platform at one of its upcoming webinars on April 14, April 20 or April 21. To register, visit https://pages.financialintelligence.informa.com/Upcoming-Zephyr-Webinars.

The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program founded to recognize the FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Digital Banking, Personal Finance, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and many more. The 2022 FinTech Breakthrough Award program attracted more than 3,950 nominations from across the globe.

About FinTech Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for technology innovation and leadership around the globe, the FinTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Financial Technologies and Services companies and products. The FinTech Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements of FinTech companies and products in categories including Payments, Personal Finance, Wealth Management, Fraud Protection, Banking, Lending, RegTech, InsurTech and more. For more information visit FinTechBreakthrough.com.

About Zephyr
Zephyr's financial services solution enables wealth managers and advisors to fully manage client investment goals with communication tools to create custom, professional proposals and presentations that convey advisor strategies and success. The platform consistently scores high among users for its ease of use with valuable tools including presentation center, portfolio proposal generation, performance measurement, asset allocation modeling, research, analytics and ESG ratings and reviews. Visit financialintelligence.informa.com to learn more about Zephyr and to request a demo or 14-day free trial on the Zephyr platform.

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