By decomposing the risk and returns of your portfolios or an index in real time, you can analyze:

• Which factors are moving the markets today
• Whether an event is a broad market event, or limited to specific styles or industries
• Whether it is similar to a previous event, such as a quant meltdown, or a credit crunch
• How volatile each factor is during the trading day

Barra Real Time Analytics can be used across the investment process in a variety of real time scenarios, such as:

• A small cap portfolio manager wants to understand how his exposure to the volatility factor is affecting his P&L at this moment
• A proprietary trader wants to take an active tilt to the momentum factor because momentum seems to be performing well at that moment
• A deep value manager wants to reduce the leverage exposure in a financial stocks portfolio given a market event
• A passive manager wants to decompose the returns of the MSCI USA Index by styles or industry factors in order to gain more clarity on what is moving the markets at a specific moment