S&P Offers Bond Portal to Financial Advisors

Bond research intended to help advisors help their clients diversify their holdings.
By Penny Crosman
August 26, 2009

Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services today announced the launch of a new bond research portal for its MarketScope Advisor platform. The portal joins S&P's family of research products for financial advisors that includes equities, mutual funds, options and exchange-traded funds.

Through the use of this new portal, advisors will be able to monitor market summaries on news and trends driving the bond market, access commentary and ratings news from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, and use 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.

"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.

 

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