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S&P Equity Research Services Adds Detailed Bond Research Offering to MarketScope(R) Advisor

Posted on: Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 09:05 CDT

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services today announced a major addition to its MarketScope(R) Advisor (MSA) platform with the launch of a new bond research portal. Bonds joins MSA's multi-asset family of research products focused on equities, mutual funds, options and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), all designed to meet the independent research needs of financial advisors and their clients.

Through the use of this new portal, advisors will be able to monitor market summaries on the news and trends driving the bond market, access the latest commentary and ratings news from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, and use powerful screening and laddering tools to research and compare approximately 45,000 global bond issuers and more than 200,000 individual bonds, including corporate and municipal offerings and agency bonds, as well as Treasuries. Advisors will also be able to create portfolios using the Bond Ladder Builder, and access calculators as they research various bond issues, seeking potential investment opportunities on behalf of their clients.

"Financial advisors and wealth managers are responding to recent market conditions by diversifying their clients' portfolios into multiple asset classes, and bonds are playing an increasingly important role in these efforts," said Andrea Remyn, a Managing Director at Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services. "By adding this tool to our already robust MarketScope(R) Advisor platform, we're continuing our commitment to bringing high-quality, independent research to the advisor marketplace designed to meet their needs and those of their clients."

In addition to research on equities, bonds, mutual funds, options and ETFs, the MSA platform also gives advisors access to a wide array of analytical tools, including HoldingScan, which provides a detailed look at portfolios and analyzes their contents to show exposure to various asset classes, regions, sectors and individual holdings. The platform also provides advisors with Alerts and Watchlists, which provide them with the ability to stay abreast of specific securities and market activity; and access to independent intra-day market commentary and news.

About Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services

As the one of the world's largest producers of independent equity research, Standard & Poor's licenses its research to over 1,000 institutions for their investors and advisors, including 19 of the top 20 securities firms, 13 of the top 20 banks, and 11 of the top 20 life insurance companies. Standard & Poor's team of over 100 experienced U.S., European and Asian equity analysts use a fundamental, bottom-up and macro-economic approach to assess a global universe of approximately 2,000 equities across more than 150 sub-industries worldwide. Follow Standard & Poor's equity analysts' U.S. market commentary each day at http://www.equityresearch.standardandpoors.com/.

Analytic services and products provided by Standard & Poor's are the result of separate activities designed to preserve the independence and objectivity of each analytic process. Standard & Poor's has established policies and procedures to maintain the confidentiality of non-public information received during each analytic process. Standard & Poor's does not trade for its own account. The analytical and ethical conduct of Standard & Poor's equity analysts is governed by the firm's Research Objectivity Policy, a copy of which may also be found at www.standardandpoors.com.

About Standard & Poor's

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 more than 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 http://www.standardandpoors.com.

SOURCE Standard & Poor's

Source: PR Newswire

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