Mergent, Ryan ALM to Launch New Investible Benchmark Bond Indexes
NEW YORK, NY – February 8, 2007 – Mergent, Inc., a leading provider of critical business and financial data and Ryan ALM, Inc., an independent bond market research and asset management firm, today announced a partnership to develop and launch a series of fixed-income indexes that will be licensed for investment products such as exchange-traded funds and mutual funds.
“We’re pleased to announce a partnership with Ronald Ryan, an innovative and award winning index designer with more than 40 years of bond market experience, to develop a unique family of indexes that will provide investors with a better way to invest in the bond market,” said Jonathan Worrall, CEO of Mergent.
Ryan, CEO of Ryan ALM., is one of the world’s leading experts on fixed-income investing and index construction. While working as Director of Fixed Income Research at Lehman Brothers during the 1970s and 1980s, he designed many of the popular Lehman Brothers bond indexes used today.
“Given the outstanding quality and depth of the Mergent data bases, we are excited about the ability to produce a new generation of bond indexes with the transparency, accuracy and purchasability the market demands and deserves,” Ryan said.
About Mergent
Mergent, Inc., a Xinhua Finance company (TSE Mothers: 9399; OTC ADRs: XHFNY) is the preferred provider of business and financial data on global publicly listed companies. Currently headquartered in Charlotte, NC and New York City, with sales offices in key North American cities, Mergent also has a strong global presence, with offices in London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto and Sydney. Mergent’s databases contain detailed equity, debt and corporate action information on over 15,000 U.S. public companies, 20,000 non-U.S. public companies and all U.S. municipal bonds.
For more than a century Mergent has been providing solutions to clients in the investment management, academic, research and corporate information fields. Today, that unique experience is combined with leading-edge technology to form a robust, diverse product line that operates under Mergent’s umbrella. These include; Mergent’s Dividend Achievers Indices – the premier benchmark for long-term returns; Ford Equity Research – a leading independent investment research firm; Mergent Online – a powerful webbased research portal that provides critical business information to support daily research and analysis; Mergent Manuals, Handbooks and Investment Guides; in-depth municipal and corporate fixed-income data, as well as end-of-day evaluation pricing; EventsData – providing real-time information on corporate actions, dividend payouts, news and updates directly to clients desktops. For more information, visit our websites, www.mergent.com and www.dividendachievers.com.
About Xinhua Finance Limited
Xinhua Finance Limited is China’s unchallenged leader in financial information and media, and is listed on the Mothers board of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (symbol: 9399) (OTC ADRs: XHFNY). Bridging China’s financial markets and the world, Xinhua Finance serves financial institutions, corporations and re-distributors through four focused and complementary service lines: Indices, Ratings, Financial News and Investor Relations. Founded in November 1999, the Company is headquartered in Shanghai with 20 news bureaus and offices in 19 locations across Asia, Australia, North America and Europe. For more information, please visit www.xinhuafinance.com.
About Ryan ALM, Inc.
Ryan ALM, Inc. is both a bond index provider and an asset management firm. Its ALM Research Solutions division maintains and delivers the Ryan Treasury Index series (see www.ryanindex.com) and numerous Custom Indexes for its clients. The Ryan ALM Advisers division manages assets versus liabilities as a turnkey system where Ryan creates Custom Liability Indexes and manages the assets as Liability Beta and Liability Alpha portfolios in an integrated Portable Alpha system named PALS. For more information, please visit www.ryanalm.com.
NEW YORK, NY – February 8, 2007 – Mergent, Inc., a leading provider of critical business and financial data and Ryan ALM, Inc., an independent bond market research and asset management firm, today announced a partnership to develop and launch a series of fixed-income indexes that will be licensed for investment products such as exchange-traded funds and mutual funds.
“We’re pleased to announce a partnership with Ronald Ryan, an innovative and award winning index designer with more than 40 years of bond market experience, to develop a unique family of indexes that will provide investors with a better way to invest in the bond market,” said Jonathan Worrall, CEO of Mergent.
Ryan, CEO of Ryan ALM., is one of the world’s leading experts on fixed-income investing and index construction. While working as Director of Fixed Income Research at Lehman Brothers during the 1970s and 1980s, he designed many of the popular Lehman Brothers bond indexes used today.
“Given the outstanding quality and depth of the Mergent data bases, we are excited about the ability to produce a new generation of bond indexes with the transparency, accuracy and purchasability the market demands and deserves,” Ryan said.
About Mergent
Mergent, Inc., a Xinhua Finance company (TSE Mothers: 9399; OTC ADRs: XHFNY) is the preferred provider of business and financial data on global publicly listed companies. Currently headquartered in Charlotte, NC and New York City, with sales offices in key North American cities, Mergent also has a strong global presence, with offices in London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto and Sydney. Mergent’s databases contain detailed equity, debt and corporate action information on over 15,000 U.S. public companies, 20,000 non-U.S. public companies and all U.S. municipal bonds.
For more than a century Mergent has been providing solutions to clients in the investment management, academic, research and corporate information fields. Today, that unique experience is combined with leading-edge technology to form a robust, diverse product line that operates under Mergent’s umbrella. These include; Mergent’s Dividend Achievers Indices – the premier benchmark for long-term returns; Ford Equity Research – a leading independent investment research firm; Mergent Online – a powerful webbased research portal that provides critical business information to support daily research and analysis; Mergent Manuals, Handbooks and Investment Guides; in-depth municipal and corporate fixed-income data, as well as end-of-day evaluation pricing; EventsData – providing real-time information on corporate actions, dividend payouts, news and updates directly to clients desktops. For more information, visit our websites, www.mergent.com and www.dividendachievers.com.
About Xinhua Finance Limited
Xinhua Finance Limited is China’s unchallenged leader in financial information and media, and is listed on the Mothers board of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (symbol: 9399) (OTC ADRs: XHFNY). Bridging China’s financial markets and the world, Xinhua Finance serves financial institutions, corporations and re-distributors through four focused and complementary service lines: Indices, Ratings, Financial News and Investor Relations. Founded in November 1999, the Company is headquartered in Shanghai with 20 news bureaus and offices in 19 locations across Asia, Australia, North America and Europe. For more information, please visit www.xinhuafinance.com.
About Ryan ALM, Inc.
Ryan ALM, Inc. is both a bond index provider and an asset management firm. Its ALM Research Solutions division maintains and delivers the Ryan Treasury Index series (see www.ryanindex.com) and numerous Custom Indexes for its clients. The Ryan ALM Advisers division manages assets versus liabilities as a turnkey system where Ryan creates Custom Liability Indexes and manages the assets as Liability Beta and Liability Alpha portfolios in an integrated Portable Alpha system named PALS. For more information, please visit www.ryanalm.com.
