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Fixed Income Analytics
Full range of fixed income instruments to power your front and middle office
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Why Fixed Income Investing?
Why stronger fixed income analytics matter?
Today’s financial landscape for fixed income investors is marked by significant transformations such as increasing search for yield and electronification of trading. Investors need strong fixed income analytics to navigate new requirements such as:
- Integration of climate, ESG and liquidity considerations in the investment process
- Established investment processes which steadily generate alpha leveraging systematic approaches
- Deeper understanding of risk and performance of riskier assets
Moreover, many institutional investors are navigating an increasingly competitive market marked by growing consolidation activity. Fee pressure and margin compressions continue to demand greater operational efficiency from investment managers. MSCI’s fixed income analytics helps investment managers to operate more efficiently, providing sophisticated data management capabilities to deliver quality analytics consistently on schedule and enabling risk and performance across all fixed income asset classes and different levels of granularity.
Solutions for Fixed Income Analytics
Solutions for fixed income analytics
Investment managers need high-quality and consistent risk and performance analytics across the complete range of their investment solutions that easily integrates with their existing workflows and infrastructure to support the full investment process.
MSCI Fixed Income Analytics covers the full range of fixed income instruments, designed to support your investment process across your front and middle office teams, and delivered directly into your existing workflow.
Analytics for the Full Investment Process with icons
Analytics for the full investment process
1. Design
Active and passive fixed income portfolio construction using proven single security analytics, risk models and portfolio optimization capabilities.
2. Monitor
Understand and monitor portfolio performance using an industry-leading performance attribution model.
3. Analyze
Award-winning risk analytics powered by single security analytics, high-quality data and an extensive stress test library.
4. Rebalance
Preliminary fixed income indexes and incorporation of transaction costs in portfolio construction and optimization.
5. Execute
Partnership with OMS providers; easily export recommended trade list.
6. Communicate
Client reports and simplified communication of key exposures with the appropriate level of granularity.
Comprehensive Sector Coverage to Power the Front and Middle Office
Comprehensive sector coverage to power the front and middle office
Our integrated models, covering all asset classes and different levels of granularity, facilitates both collaboration between front office and middle office teams dedicated to different asset classes, and client communication.
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Fixed Income Instrument Coverage
- Corporate and sovereign bonds including 9,000+ issuer-level spread curves (700K+ active)
- Mortgage-backed securities including prepayment model for Agency MBS (1M+ active securities)
- Municipal bonds including dedicated implied volatility factors (1M+ active)
- Syndicated (bank) loans including proprietary prepayment estimations (25K+ active)
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Developed in Collaboration with Leading Providers
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Linked to 3rd Party Data
- 60K+ benchmarks (reconciled daily to 1bp)
- Credit ratings from major rating agencies
- MSCI climate and ESG data
Easily Access and Integrate Fixed Income Content
Easily access and integrate fixed income content
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Interactive applications
MSCI applications, including BarraOne, Single Security Analyzer and Excel plug-in, enable portfolio managers to receive fixed income analytics directly in the Order Management System (OMS) through our partnerships with Charles River Development and IHS Markit.
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Large-scale Batch Reporting
We deliver clients MSCI managed production of standardized and custom reports in PDF, Excel, CSV, XML and other formats for thousands of portfolios.
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APIs
Modern APIs maximize speed of delivery with direct, intraday access to MSCI’s data and calculation engines.
ESG and Climate Integration in Fixed Income Portfolios
ESG and climate integration in fixed income portfolios
MSCI’s Climate (VaR) and ESG data points can be used as inputs to your portfolio construction process as well as high volume client and regulatory reporting. Our climate risk reports include analysis of an extensive set of carbon risk management and exposure metrics, sourced from sophisticated in-house research and climate models.
Asset Tv videos
The Role of Bonds in Multi-Asset Portfolios
Andy Sparks, Head of Portfolio Management Research, re-examines the economic rationale and empirical evidence supporting bonds in multi-asset portfolios and discusses fixed income climate strategies.
Climate Credit and Inflation
Andy Sparks and Oliver Marchand from MSCI Research, discuss the cumulative effects of the pandemic on the fixed income market and the emerging trends for 2021.
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Featured content
Fixed-Income Markets in Focus On the Road to Recovery
Hear Andy Sparks, managing director and head of portfolio-management research at MSCI, discuss recent trends in fixed-income markets, including inflation and rate hikes, the impact of an escalating conflict in the Middle East and how to evaluate bonds vs equities in the context of recent events.
Fixed Income Indexes
Our fixed income indexes are built using the same Single Security Analytics as provided to clients.
Fixed Income Innovation Driven by Research
With over 30 years of experience in fixed income and 40 years in factor models our veterans of the market are constantly at the forefront of the industry.
Awards and recognition
The Chartis RiskTech Fixed Income Technology Solutions research has placed MSCI in the Category Leader’s quadrant, highlighting MSCI’s Fixed Income leadership.
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Related content
Daily Fixed Income Insights
Use the report to focus on short and long-term yield and credit spread relationships across regions, countries and credit sectors.
Download insights(PDF, 1 MB) (opens in a new tab)
MSCI Mortgage and MBS Model Suite
Manage the risk of complex mortgage instruments more effectively with MSCI’s integrated fixed income risk analytics.
Download PDF(PDF, 180 KB) (opens in a new tab)
Multi-Asset Class Factor Model
The MSCI MAC Factor Model provides high to low granularity in looking at systematic strategy factors through an integrated and consistent framework.
Download PDF(PDF, 141 KB) (opens in a new tab)
MSCI Corporate and Sovereign Issuer Curves
Utilize curves, designed to provide a granular and consistent view of credit, supported by a global team of experienced data analysts.
Download PDF(PDF, 190 KB) (opens in a new tab)
Municipal Bond Models
State of the art risk and return analytics for municipal bonds enabling modern asset allocation practices and incorporating idiosyncratic features of the muni bonds market.
Download PDF(PDF, 247 KB) (opens in a new tab)
MSCI’s Fixed Income Building Blocks for Portfolio Construction and Risk Management
Designed to help you fast-track your systematic strategy launch or execute your fixed income trades with confidence
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