Standard & Poor's Capital IQ Announces Strategic Formation of New Quantitative Market...

Standard & Poor's Capital IQ Announces Strategic Formation of New Quantitative
Market Insight & Research Group - SystematIQ Research(TM)

New group seeks to uncover differentiated stock selection strategies to help
institutional investors out-perform the market

NEW YORK, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, and
a leading provider of financial research solutions, today announced the
formation of SystematIQ Research, a new independent institutional quantitative
research group specializing in value-added content and quantitative market
insight. The new group offers clients a wide range of quantitative research
and consulting services, including its newly launched web-based signal library
AlphaWorks(TM), dynamic stock selection models, and ClariFI(R) consulting and
factor packs.

SystematIQ Research's AlphaWorks is the first-ever fully transparent
collection of global stock selection trading signals and alpha models built
using a global point-in-time dataset. With direct links into ClariFI's
ModelStation(R) -- the industry-standard investment management platform for
research and production -- this on-line encyclopedia provides statistical
profiles and formulaic transparency into over 250 stock selection signals.
The team is also developing a variety of stock selection models and quality
written research for its institutional client-base.

"Increasingly our clients are looking for ways to improve and differentiate
their investment strategies using new, unique datasets and advanced
analytics," said Randall Winn, Executive Managing Director of Capital IQ.
"Having the in-house expertise of SystematIQ Research helps us to better serve
a rapidly growing segment of our business, while providing an important
feedback loop into Capital IQ's strategic initiatives."

Additionally, SystematIQ Research utilizes Capital IQ-Compustat(R) Global
Point-In-Time(TM), Compustat's new weekly Point-in-Time, and a variety of
third party datasets in search of alpha. The new group also serves as the
exclusive consulting partner for ClariFI and its market leading strategy
development application, ModelStation.

Gioel Molinari, Managing Director of ClariFI said, "We are very excited to
formally introduce SystematIQ Research to our current and prospective clients,
as this new group fills a major void in the industry left by the consolidation
of sell-side research and fragmentation across independent research
providers." He continued, "Being able to offer clients such in-depth, high
quality institutional quantitative insight not only sets us apart from the
competition, but also helps us add significant value to investment
professionals by enabling them to do more with less."

Based in Chicago and led by Carson Boneck, CFA, the SystematIQ Research team
is comprised of experienced quantitative research professionals, PhDs, and
data technology specialists.

For more information, please visit SystematIQ Research at
www.systematiq-research.com

About Capital IQ

Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, provides comprehensive fundamental
and quantitative research solutions to over 2,700 investment managers,
investment banks, private equity funds, advisory firms, and corporations
worldwide. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, Compustat,
ClariFI, SystematIQ, and Directories products, and offer an array of powerful
applications for desktop research, screening, real-time market data,
back-testing, portfolio management, financial modeling, and quantitative
analysis. For more information, please visit Capital IQ's web site at
www.capitaliq.com.

SOURCE Capital IQ

Rishi Sharma of Capital IQ, +1-212-438-2615, risharma@capitaliq.com; or
Rosally Sapla of Group SJR, +1-212-751-3321, rsapla@groupsjr.com