Barra Portfolio Manager

A hosted portfolio management platform

Barra Portfolio Manager is designed for research, reporting, strategy development, portfolio construction and performance
and risk attribution. The flexible and customizable user interface allows for sharing strategies, analytics and reports within
your organization and with clients. Using proprietary content as well as third-party data, Barra Portfolio Manager can help
clients make faster, more informed investment decisions.

Barra Peer Analytics Barra Optimizer 8.0 integration

New in this Release Enhancements to High Volume Reporting Various enhancements and fixes
Enhancements to Performance Attribution

Key Features
Attribution Choose from traditional (Brinson), factor-based, or
hybrid approaches to understand and decompose the sources of
risk and return from either your own portfolio or a peer mutual fund.
Custom Factor Attribution Leverage MSCIs patented solution
for decomposing risk and returns. For example, you can use your
own industry classifications or incorporate other custom data to
make risk attribution customized to their unique investment process.
Scenario and What-if Analysis Simultaneously evaluate
point-in-time and time-series risk, return and style exposures,
other portfolio characteristics, asset-level details and multiple
trading scenarios using multiple risk models, dates and portfolios.
Portfolio Construction Build portfolios that achieve an optimal
combination of predicted risk and return, subject to constraints and
investment objectives, using the Barra Optimizer. The Barra Optimizer
is developed by MSCIs optimization research team and enables the
implementation of complex strategies with various utilities, constraints
and targets. Efficiently rebalance or construct a large number of
portfolios in a single rebalance cycle.
Strategy Research and Development Create and simulate
investment strategies using market and third-party attributes and
data. Dynamically change constraints or objectives to adapt to
different market conditions or business cycles. Monitor exposures,
summary statistics and performance results in real time.
Custom Data Use the Formula Builder to create and refine alphas,
generate custom data and attributes for risk reports and portfolio
optimization, or incorporate portfolio-level statistics.
Group-by Analysis Align portfolios with your investment process
by aggregating, analyzing and reporting portfolio characteristics across
multiple dimensions using MSCI-supplied and third-party attributes,
like industry and sector classifications, Economic Exposure, and
fundamental data.
Reporting Manage a complete end-to-end workflow that includes
setup, monitoring, exception handling and hands-free extraction of
single or multiple reports with an easy-to-use interface. Automate the
reporting process with either CSV or customized PDF for use across the
broader investment management organization. Leverage PDF reports
designed to compare your holdings against your mutual fund peer group.
Alternative Investments Full coverage of oil, gold, FX forwards,
equity options or short-term fixed income cash equivalents. Includes
support for reporting, backtesting, and attribution for complex portfolios.

Barra Portfolio Manager provides multiple views of your portfolio or the market

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Jose Menchero, Daniel Stefek, and Vijay Poduri. System and Method for Attributing Performance, Risk and Risk-Adjusted Performance of an Investment Portfolio to Custom Factors. US
Patent 7,890,408, filed October 11, 2007, and issued February 15, 2011.
Key Benefits
Barra Portfolio Manager provides multiple views of your portfolio or the
market and has a flexible and customizable user interface that lets you
tailor, define and share personalized workspaces. As a user, you can benefit
from a broad range of multi-asset class risk and performance analytics.
Barra Portfolio Manager can help you make better investment
decisions and build better portfolios.
Improve Analysis and Communication of Portfolio
Information Advanced charting capabilities improve information
sharing across your organization and with your clients.
Compare you portfolio against your peer group Leverage
the new Barra Peer Analytics to compare your fund against similar
investment styles from the Lipper fund database. Use that data to
uncover investment trends and generate automated reports.
Identify and Control Sources of Risk Isolate industry, style,
market and other sources of risk to see which policies are the largest
User Interface Interact with the application in a meaningful and
contributors to your portfolios risk and return.
intuitive way with an enhanced user interface that supports multiple
Reduce Unintentional Bets Integrate the market-leading Barra monitors and varying monitor resolutions. The application provides
risk models for a clear view of risk within a portfolio. an easy start-up wizard for beginners as well as an application that
Construct and Optimize Portfolios Build efficient portfolios to has flexibility and power for advanced analysis.
meet your investment objectives. Gain Control and Scale Monitor, control and improve your
Conduct Performance Attribution Evaluate performance workflow by using a range of views and workspaces.
in meaningful detail using a range of popular and proprietary 24x5 Support A highly trained Client Service team is ready to
attribution methodologies. provide product and analytics expertise before, during and after your
Compare Predicted and Realized Risk and Return Understand trading hours.
how the profile of a portfolio has changed over time and the impact
on realized risk and performance.

Technology Highlights
Barra Portfolio Manager is a secure hosted platform independently verified to protect client data, through SSAE-16 and ISAE-3402 audits. It is built
on the same technology platform as BarraOne.
System Requirements
High-speed Internet connection allowing 128-bit encryption over SSL Installation
Java Runtime Environment installed (v. 1.6_0_20 or higher Accessible from any Internet-enabled computer
recommended) Automatic upgrades ensure the latest features of Barra Portfolio
Windows XP or higher Network Requirements Manager are available
Your organization can reduce, and in some cases eliminate, the time and
Java Runtime configured for Internet connectivity
cost spent managing technology and data. Find out more about Barra
Secure HTTP communication over port 443 Portfolio Manager and how it can add value to your investment process.

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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 companys flagship product offerings are: the MSCI indexes with over USD 9 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.
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