New Advisor Insight Offers S&P's Extensive Stock, Fund, Bond and Separate
Account Research Through Customizable Web Site
NEW YORK, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- With an emphasis on improving financial
advisors' ability to support their clients by tracking global markets,
accessing financial research and data, and developing individualized
investment ideas and strategies, Standard & Poor's today announced extensive
enhancements to its widely-used Advisor Insight product suite, the independent
research leader's on-line investment analysis service.
Advisor Insight, the web site for professional investment advisors,
enables users to:
* Draw from Standard & Poor's extensive offering of investment research,
data, commentary and investment opinions across several asset
categories, including stocks, funds, bonds, annuities and separate
accounts
* Obtain in-depth stock reports as well as market alerts, equity alerts
and portfolio alerts on all S&P-generated research and STARS opinion
changes
* Download educational information useful for helping clients become more
informed investors
* Access Advisor Insight's entire product suite through the Internet or
through specific modules within a customer's existing proprietary
desktop system
In addition, the new Advisor Insight allows users to opt for a range of
additional services beyond this already extensive offering. These include
market and equity research alerts from Standard & Poor's MarketScope, S&P's
Interactive Stock Reports and a suite of customizable services that can direct
Advisor Insight content into advisor workstations for private labeling and
customized content views.
"S&P continues to invest in the creation and distribution of independent
research and investment decision support tools to help advisors select,
evaluate and monitor suitable investments for their clients," said Andrew V.
Cursio, Standard & Poor's vice president of product and market development.
"We enhanced Advisor Insight to provide investment advisors with new
functionality and to deliver additional market and investment intelligence and
investment ideas."
Advisor Insight represents an end-to-end support solution for the advisor
market. Its retooled product suite provides easier access to the over 5,000
equity research reports, 10,000 equity research notes and 17,000 mutual fund
reports, company and market statistics and news that Standard & Poor's equity
research produces annually. In addition, it allows users to access Standard &
Poor's current investment opinions on specific stocks, funds and bonds easily
accessed from anywhere on the site.
A preview of Advisor Insight is available at
http://www.sp.advisorinsight.com. For more information or to schedule a media
interview with Andrew Cursio or other Advisor Insight representatives, call or
e-mail the Standard & Poor's communications contact below.
About Standard & Poor's
Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is
the foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation,
investment research, data and valuations. With 6,000 employees located in 21
countries, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial
infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 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.
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