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NASDAQ OMX and SunGard to Deliver Risk Analytics for NASDAQ OMX Indexes
May 17, 2010 — New York
SunGard and The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. are offering new risk
analytics for a range of selected NASDAQ OMX indexes, helping investment firms
effectively manage financial risk and better respond to volatile markets. Through
SunGard’s APT, which provides risk modeling, reporting, risk attribution and
scenario analysis capabilities, firms will be able to gain greater insight into
NASDAQ OMX indexes, in turn helping enhance investment decision making.
SunGard’s APT is a leading solution for risk-based
investment management decisions. APT helps investment firms manage risk by
providing models and reporting that include risk measures (such as portfolio
tracking error, value at risk (VaR) and volatility), risk attribution and
scenario analysis. This information will be updated automatically to provide
analytics on a range of NASDAQ OMX indices, including thematic indexes. To access the APT and NASDAQ OMX risk reports, visit www.sungard.com/go/apt/nasdaq. In addition, NASDAQ OMX and SunGard provide a subset of this information
on their respective Web sites as a complimentary offering.
”Five years ago, many investors were less concerned about
financial risk but as we emerge from the global financial crisis, risk
management is now essential to a comprehensive investment strategy,” said John
Jacobs, executive vice president, NASDAQ OMX Global Index Group. ”We are
delighted to have SunGard’s APT provide such a robust data analysis of selected
NASDAQ OMX indexes, enabling investors to more effectively monitor and manage
financial risk”.
Julie Rice, managing director, Americas for SunGard’s alternative
investments business, commented: “Investors in the current economic climate are
looking for more transparent risk assessments of global indices. By working
with a global leader in the provision of indexes, we are able to offer both
NASDAQ OMX and SunGard customers access to a range of risk analytics across key
benchmarks to help support their investment decision making processes in an
efficient and transparent manner.”
Through SunGard’s APT solution, new risk analytics are
offered on the following NASDAQ OMX indexes:
Index Symbol
NASDAQ-100 NDX
NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy CELS
NASDAQ OMX Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure QGRD
NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 QCRD
Wilder NASDAQ OMX Global Energy Efficient Transport HAUL
About The Global
Index Group
NASDAQ OMX is a global leader in creating and licensing
strategy indexes and is home to the most widely watched indexes in the world.
As a premier, full-service provider, the NASDAQ OMX Global Index Group is
dedicated to designing powerful indexes that are in sync with a continually
changing market environment. Utilizing its expanded coverage as a global
company, NASDAQ OMX has more than 1,400 diverse equity, commodity and
fixed-income indexes in the U.S., Europe, and throughout the world.
NASDAQ OMX’s calculation, licensing and marketing support
provide the tools to measure and replicate global markets. The NASDAQ OMX
Global Index Group’s range of services covers the entire business process from
index design to calculation and dissemination. For more information about
NASDAQ OMX indexes, visit https://www.nasdaqomx.com/indexes/.
Access to essential historical index data for NASDAQ OMX
indexes can be accessed from a single source, NASDAQ OMX Global Index Watch.
For additional information, please visit https://indexes.nasdaqomx.com/indexwatch.aspx.
About NASDAQ OMX
Group
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange
company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services
across six continents, with more than 3,600 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers
multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its
U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First
North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple
asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured
products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the
operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities
depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic
are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX
exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and
Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com.
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About SunGard’s APT
SunGard's APT provides investment technology for a broad
range of asset classes, countries and regions including data and software for
understanding market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and for portfolio
construction and performance analysis. APT provides investors with statistical
market risk models, performance and risk analytics and portfolio optimization
and construction tools. APT's customers include institutional and retail asset
managers, pension funds, private wealth managers, hedge funds, broker/dealers,
prime brokers and proprietary traders. www.sungard.com/apt/learnmore
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and
technology services companies. SunGard
has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70
countries. SunGard provides
software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and
the public sector. SunGard also
provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information
availability consulting services and business continuity management
software. With annual revenue
exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the
largest privately held business software and IT services company. For more
information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com
Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and APT are
trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its
subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Cautionary Note
Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
The
matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that are made under
the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about NASDAQ
OMX's products and offerings. We caution that these statements are not
guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from
those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other factors beyond
NASDAQ OMX's control. These factors include, but are not limited to factors
detailed in NASDAQ OMX's annual report on Form 10-K, and periodic reports filed
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to
release any revisions to any forward-looking statements.