ClariFI Announces Availability of Barra Optimizer on ModelStation

NEW YORK, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ – ClariFI, a Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ business and leading provider of software and services focused exclusively on providing investment managers with complete solutions to their research and production workflows, announced today that the Barra Optimizer is now available as an optional component in the latest version of ModelStation. MSCI Barra (NYSE: MXB) is a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, including indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics.

The new integrated offering combines the key strengths of the respective products, providing joint clients with turnkey access to Barra’s advanced optimization techniques and robust results and ClariFI’s comprehensive suite of industry-leading investment management applications. This best-of-breed approach eliminates the need to manually move data between the two products, and therefore gives portfolio managers greater flexibility to research, test, and implement new investment strategies.

Donovan Goodreau, ClariFI’s Vice President of Sales and Business Development said, “Our broadened alliance with MSCI Barra supports our platform strategy to simplify and streamline the entire investment management process through state-of-the-art development and strategic relationships.” He continued, “Integrating products that are compatible with our offerings, such as the Barra Optimizer, further enables us to provide new and existing clients with the analytical tools and capacity needed to gain a competitive edge in these challenging economic times.”

“We are delighted that the Barra Optimizer is now available in ClariFI’s ModelStation,” said Roveen Bhansali, Managing Director and Head of the Analytics Business at MSCI Barra. “This means that institutional investors can access Barra’s industry-leading portfolio analytics in a way that best fits their processes and systems, be it through our proprietary analytics software, integration with their internal systems, or via a third-party platform such as ClariFI.”

About ClariFI and Capital IQ

ClariFI, a Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ business, provides software and services focused exclusively on providing investment managers with complete solutions to their research and production workflows. ClariFI’s offerings allow managers to decrease the time it takes to research, test, and put into production their investment strategies, leading to reduced operational risk, decreased time-to-market, and significant organizational efficiencies. ClariFI counts four of the top five investment management firms in the world, hedge funds of all sizes, and proprietary trading desks at the leading sell-side firms as its clients. Additional information about ClariFI can be found at http://www.clarifi.com.

Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor’s, provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 2,400 leading financial institutions, advisory firms, and corporations. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, a unique combination of global private and public capital market data and technology that enables end-users to draw deep market insights, generate better ideas, leverage relationships, and simplify workflow. Clients can deploy the Capital IQ Platform either as a standalone solution or seamlessly integrate its components into existing business applications and portals via systems integration and data feeds. For more information, please visit Capital IQ’s web site at www.capitaliq.com. Standard & Poor’s is a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP).

About MSCI Barra

MSCI Barra is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investment institutions worldwide. MSCI Barra products include indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics for use in managing equity, fixed income and multi-asset class portfolios.

The company’s flagship products are the MSCI International Equity Indices, which are estimated to have over USD 3 trillion benchmarked to them, and the Barra risk models and portfolio analytics, which cover 56 equity and 46 fixed income markets. MSCI Barra is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world. Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm, is the controlling shareholder of MSCI Barra. For further information on MSCI Barra, please visit our web site at www.mscibarra.com.

SOURCE Standard & Poor’s