Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it has added bond analytics data items to RemotePlus, its financial data server for Windows and UNIX operating systems.
These additional analytical measures are derived using Interactive Data's BondEdge platform.
RemotePlus provides cost effective access to a variety of content that can help drive the investment management process. RemotePlus will now offer a wide range of analytical measures for more than 2 million evaluated securities on a daily basis. These include: U.S. corporate bonds; U.S. government bonds, U.S. municipal bonds, U.S. mortgage pass-throughs, non-USD denominated debt (sovereign, supranational, corporate), emerging market debt, and U.S. agency/government sponsored enterprise-backed collateralized mortgage obligations (agency/GSE CMOs). The analytical measures include: yield, option-adjusted spread, effective duration, convexity, accrued interest, average life, and others.
"Financial institutions are focused on risk management related to their investments, and we've noticed that our clients have a heightened awareness of interest rate sensitivity, credit spreads and valuation," said Mark Hepsworth, president, Institutional Business for Interactive Data. "RemotePlus provides our clients with an integrated offering that delivers a wide range of universe-level data, evaluated pricing and analytics capabilities in support of their evolving needs."