Thomson Reuters Launches Lipper for Investment Managers
Many years ago, when I covered the mutual fund industry for a different publication, I would always scan Lipper data to find out which funds and fund managers were performing best. For asset managers who want to analyze mutual fund performance in deciding where to invest, Thomson Reuters today is launching Lipper for Investment Management, a solution that delivers Lipper's global fund data and content.
The product provides fund analysis and reporting on nearly 200,000 share classes covering mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange traded funds, hedge funds, domestic pension and insurance products in 60 countries and fund holdings in 12 major markets.
This offering differs from competing products in that it covers 60 countries including U.S., Canada, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Japan and Australia/NewZealand, according to a Thomson Reuters spokesperson. Thomson Reuters, which owns Lipper, plans to extend coverage to Northern Africa, South Africa and Russia by end of 2009. The platform is available in U.K. and U.S. English and Japanese with coverage of local market classifications. It will soon be supporting German and simplified and traditional Chinese.
The hosted desktop product includes Lipper Leaders, Lipper's mutual fund rating system, and charting capabilities that enable risk and performance analyses.
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