NORWALK, Conn. - FactSet (NYSE:FDS) (NASDAQ:FDS), a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications, and industry-leading services, announced the launch of a new fund distribution offering – FactSet Fund Marketing – powered by the integration of APX Stream technology. The new end-to-end solution brings together FactSet’s analytics and publishing engines with APX Stream’s data warehouse and distribution engines. Users will benefit from a fully automated solution across all vehicle types, including analytics (characteristics & exposures) and performance creation along with holdings, warehousing, and reconciliation through distribution out to over 50 global vendor and consulting databases.
Asset managers leverage APX Stream data vault and mapping engine to drive scalability and AUM growth with a single place to centrally manage, reconcile and distribute their marketing and client servicing content. Integrating this technology into FactSet's best-in-class analytics solution for fixed income, performance, risk, and portfolio level characteristics and exposure, offers a unique operated marketing and client servicing solution from analytics creation to distribution.
“FactSet is committed to delivering efficiency, cost reduction and accuracy to our clients’ operations,” said Rob Robie, EVP Analytics & Trading, FactSet. “By taking a process that typically requires multiple vendors, manual transformations and Excel, and moving it to a fully hosted and automated solution with the reconciliation and compliance capabilities that investors and regulators are demanding, we deliver benefits to our clients in the long term.”
“Embedding our solution into the FactSet ecosystem creates a unique opportunity for the asset management industry,” said Richard Jackson, CEO, APX Stream LLC. “This collaboration will enable asset managers to leverage APX Stream’s technology to expand their marketing footprint and grow AUM.”
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