Canterbury Consulting Selects MSCI for Performance and Risk

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computer Weekly News -- MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI), a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced that Canterbury Consulting (Canterbury), one of the largest wealth management firms with more than USD 13 billion in assets under advisement, has selected its Risk and Performance Suite including InvestorForce, BarraOne and HedgePlatform for complete investment performance measurement and reporting.

"We were looking to scale our performance measurement and reporting processes and provide greater insight into our investment risk. After an extensive evaluation, MSCI's Risk and Performance Suite which includes InvestorForce, BarraOne and HedgePlatform was the clear solution," said Mike Ethridge, COO of Canterbury. "At Canterbury, we continue to look for meaningful ways to enhance our business processes in order to offer our clients the best set of services. MSCI's advanced technology and suite of risk and performance offerings puts us in a position to do just that."

Canterbury will subscribe to the suite of MSCI's InvestorForce services including InvestorForce Report, InvestorForce Custodial, InvestorForce Collect, InvestorForce Plan Universes, InvestorForce Compare and InvestorForce Insight. In addition, they will utilize BarraOne, MSCI's global platform for total plan risk and performance, and HedgePlatform, MSCI's industry-leading hedge fund transparency tool which covers over 1,400 hedge funds, including over 80 of the top 100 global funds1.

This complete MSCI Risk and Performance Suite will allow Canterbury Consulting to provide transparency and visibility into plan performance, advanced performance reporting, deep analytics and the most extensive data collection and aggregation engine available.

"This suite enables Canterbury to streamline their performance measurement and reporting for seamless aggregation under one roof via a complete end-to-end institutional plan performance management system," said Jim Morrissey, Managing Director and Head of Americas Asset Owner and Consultant Business for MSCI.

MSCI's InvestorForce platform is used by institutional investment consultants to report on over USD $3 trillion of assets for over 5,000 institutional plans. 1 As of January, 2013, Institutional Investor, The Hedge Fund 100 About MSCI

MSCI Inc. is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indexes, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and ESG data and research.

The company's flagship product offerings are: the MSCI indexes with over USD 9.5 trillion estimated to be benchmarked to them on a worldwide basis1; Barra multi-asset class factor models, portfolio risk and performance analytics; RiskMetrics multi-asset class market and credit risk analytics; IPD real estate information, indexes and analytics; MSCI ESG (environmental, social and governance) Research screening, analysis and ratings; and FEA valuation models and risk management software for the energy and commodities markets. MSCI is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world. 1 As of June 30, 2014, as reported on September 30 2014 by eVestment, Morningstar and Bloomberg For further information on MSCI, please visit our web site at www.msci.com This document and all of the information contained in it, including without limitation all text, data, graphs, charts (collectively, the "Information") is the property of MSCI Inc. or its subsidiaries (collectively, "MSCI"), or MSCI's licensors, direct or indirect suppliers or any third party involved in making or compiling any Information (collectively, with MSCI, the "Information Providers") and is provided for informational purposes only. The Information may not be modified, reverse-engineered, reproduced or redisseminated in whole or in part without prior written permission from MSCI.

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