We love to hear from our customers about how they are using our financial data, but we were particularly impressed with the sophisticated new investment research tool developed by Benchmark Metrics that lets portfolio research managers detect, measure, and respond in real time to changing financial data.
Insight FSATM (Financial Statement Analysis) is a web-based tool that uses a methodology developed by UCLA accounting expert Eric Sussman. It automatically and instantly reviews twelve key financial indicators for a single company, or group of companies in a portfolio, using thirty-seven fundamental financial analysis metrics. Relative Risk Ratings (R-3s), which quantify the downside risk associated with corporate financial performance, are calculated for each performance area and metric. Results are conveyed in eight graphical output reports that provide visual alerts to financial irregularities and early warning signs of potential accounting manipulation are identified well in advance of deteriorating market performance.
“Insight FSATM was specifically developed to meet the complex needs of buy-side portfolio managers,” said William Benjamin, CEO of Benchmark Metrics. “We created a dynamic tool that is delivered via the Internet, linked to the EDGAR Online Inc. financial data feed, and designed to output visual reports that draw the manager’s attention only to those securities signaling a problem. No other analytic tool currently available consolidates as much real-time data access and diagnostic power into one coherent service.”
“Recent substantial changes in the investment research market where buy-side investors are processing more of their analytical research in-house drives the industry need for better, faster analytical methods and tools,” noted Sussman. “This is particularly true of portfolio managers and researchers who require innovative, quantitative methods to speed the investment research process.”
We look forward to future products from Benchmark Metrics: more than 15 web-delivered measurement tools are in the planning or development stage to address finance, cost of capital, M&A, strategic planning, marketing and advertising, risk analysis and a spectrum of other high intensity business performance issues. The company partners with leading business analysis experts at major graduate schools to design its web-delivered analytical tools and models to critically assess and drive better corporate performance.
For more information and a short demonstration of Insight FSA visit http://www.bmiinsight.com/.
Recent Comments