S&P Global Market Intelligence Launches Portfolio Analytics

Investment managers can now gain greater insight into their investment process through new portfolio analytics and reporting capabilities

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S&P Global Market Intelligence

May 22, 2017, 08:02 ET

NEW YORK, May 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Market Intelligence, a leading provider of multi asset class research and data, announced today the launch of its portfolio analytics and reporting tools. The latest enhancement integrates S&P Global Market Intelligence's point in time data, with clients' own proprietary content, in an intuitive equity performance tool to assess and communicate the drivers of performance.

Investment managers can now leverage the comprehensive fundamental and industry leading data from S&P Global Market Intelligence into powerful portfolio intelligence. The new web-based platform is integrated with the Alpha Factor Library, an extensive and proprietary collection of global equity selection signals, or alpha factors, used by fundamental and quantitative investors, Fund of Funds, ETF providers and other investment professionals, now includes more than 580 alpha factors for over 40,000 companies in 90 countries.

Warren Breakstone, Managing Director & General Manager of the Capital Markets Group of S&P Global Market Intelligence, said, "Our buy-side clients require greater transparency in how their decisions impact performance and we are pleased to offer them an integrated solution to address those needs. Moreover, with full Alpha Factor Library integration, the portfolio analytics tool will help our clients validate and communicate their strategies in the context of exposures to market factors that drive investment performance and assess risk."

With the release of Portfolio Analytics, S&P Global Market Intelligence offers an end-to-end workflow solution to generate and test winning strategies relative to other equity analytics tools, uncovering unique sources of risk and return with detailed analytics and style-based portfolio attribution. Investors can communicate portfolio performance with client-ready, custom reports, produced on a pre-set schedule or ad-hoc. To learn more about portfolio analytics, visit: https://marketintelligence.spglobal.com/client-solutions/products/products/portfolio-analytics

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuations and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.

S&P Global Market Intelligence a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

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