In this release, we integrated over 19.4 million Government, Supranational, Agency and Corporates (GSAC) securities from Markit, more than doubling our coverage in Capital IQ.
Users can now access Government, Supranational, Agency and Corporates (GSAC) securities content in Capital IQ platform, integrated from Markit into all fixed income pages and functionality, including Fixed Income Summary, Securities Summary, Security Detail, Fixed Income Screening, Capital IQ Excel Plug-In, Search, Charting and Lists. In addition, we refined certain reference data to be more granular and descriptive. This includes nomenclature adjustments for fields like Bond type, Coupon Type, Coupon Interest Frequency, Green Bond Type, Ownership Type, and Default Type, as well as modifications to historical pricing for select securities. As these fields are integral to Screener and S&P Capital IQ Plug-in, users can experience changes in their result sets. Please note that as we update the database, you may notice differences between page views and Screener results.
In this release, we expanded coverage for closed end mutual funds by offering Net Asset Value alongside day close price. We also expanded scenario analysis by including multiple portfolio and benchmark combinations within a single report for various 'What If' scenarios and made usability enhancements for portfolio creation and upload by providing a visual interactive guide in Portfolio Management section.
Users can view extended coverage for closed-ended funds by using Net Asset Value (NAV) as pricing in their portfolios.
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Users can conduct comprehensive comparisons with multiple portfolio and benchmark combinations, under different market conditions, in a single report. Portfolio Analytics enhances the depth of scenario analysis by testing against different indices, peer groups, exploring alternative asset allocation and attribution analysis.
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Users can access a new in-platform tour to learn how to populate portfolios via file uploads, copy, paste or use an existing list, portfolio, index, or fund.
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In this release, we streamlined workflows and optimized processes to improve our responsiveness to recent events, and providing more robust data sets. These enhancements span across the Credit Analytics and focus on company credit assessments like the RiskGauge Report.
On the RiskGauge Report, users can now easily identify the company by using the recent addition to the firmographics, the VAT ID and the Local Registry ID.
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Users can now experience a robust Government, Supranational, Agency and Corporates (GSAC) securities Bond Pricing workflow in Credit Risk Pricing. In addition to supporting regions like Asia Pacific, Eurozone, and North America, the downloadable Credit Risk Pricing report offers full results enhancing information density. Moreover, the Tearsheet feature ensures increased clarity by distinguishing between curves sourced from the Corporate Yield Curves or GSAC Bond Pricing data.
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Users can access Q1 2024 scenarios in the Macro Scenario Analysis tool. As a quarterly update, users now have access to the latest Economic & Country Risk (ECR) scenarios, including insert scenarios when available.
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Equity Listings
View security level detail for all equity securities for a company, including dividend history. This model is compatible for up to 11 different languages.