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January 14, 2010

IA reports 75% increase in business in 4th Quarter of 2009

New York, NY, January 14, 2010 — Investor Analytics, a global leader in risk measurement and risk management solutions for asset managers and asset owners, announced today that it is the recipient of Risk Magazine’s, ‘Software Product of the Year 2010’ Award. In their seventh year, the Risk Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the fast-changing risk management sector. Simultaneously, Investor Analytics reports that new business increased 75% in the fourth quarter of 2009. IA’s new mandate wins come from a diverse client base including pension funds, financial institutions, hedge funds, risk consultants, third party administrators and funds of managed accounts.

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January 10, 2010

IA wins Risk Magazine's Software of the Year 2010 Award

For introducing ideas from behavioral economics and cognitive sciences into the field of risk management, Investor Analytics received one of the industry’s highest forms of recognition in January 2010: The coveted Software Product of the Year Award from Risk Magazine.

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January 8, 2010

IA's CEO interviewed on National Public Radio's Morning Edition by Jim Zarroli.

"To make sure they are better prepared next time, firms are turning to people like Damian Handzy, CEO of Investor Analytics, a New Jersey-based firm that ..."

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January 4, 2010

Alphabet Soup - IA's commentary about the shape of the recovery and the role of risk management appears in Investments & Pensions Europe. READ MORE....

You can link to IPE's website (free) for the article here.

October 6, 2009

IA releases its advanced Monte Carlo simulations, known as SoFIE (Simulation of Financially Important Events). SoFIE is an implementation of Monte Carlo that focuses on fat tails to significantly improve the accuracy, stability and speed of computing risk statistics as compared to traditional Monte Carlo approaches. SoFIE employs full re-valuation of derivative contracts in its simulations to capture the non-linearities that often times drive the risk of a portfolio.

For more information about SoFIE, contact Michael Poisson on +1 908 508 8012 or at sales@investoranalytics.com

You can download the full press release here (pdf).

September 15, 2009

Investor Analytics and BNY Mellon released a Thought Leadership Series White Paper entitled "Tomorrow's Risk Management, how behavioral economics, cognitive studies, and complexity science add up to more than their own sum," which presents specific ways practitionars can significantly improve their risk management function.

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June 8, 2009

The Bank of New York Mellon and Investor Analytics Form Strategic Alliance To Provide Enterprise-Wide Risk Management and Reporting

Extension of relationship strengthens focus on risk transparency and other solutions to meet growing regulator and investor demands

BOSTON and LONDON, June 8, 2009 – The Bank of New York Mellon, the global leader in asset management and securities servicing, announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Investor Analytics (IA), a global leader in risk analysis and risk management solutions, to provide enterprise-wide risk analysis and reporting for asset owners and managers. The alliance will make IA’s sophisticated risk analyses available to BNY Mellon clients worldwide, including banks, pension funds, asset managers, hedge funds, and other investment professionals...

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June 1, 2009

IA is featured as the cover story in the June issue of Risk Professional. Starting on page 31, Tools of Intelligence describes innovations in Risk Management.

"People are looking for new tools to capture what the old tools failed to measure."
- Damian Handzy, CEO

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June, 2009

Surprises Really Shouldn't Surprise Us: The CFA Society of the UK's June 2009 issue of Professional Investor Magazine contains a contributed article by IA CEO Damian Handzy:

"It's about time economic theory teamed up with behavioral science and that investors woke up to the fact that igoring the liklihood of shocks is risky and costly ..."

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April 1, 2009

Alpha Magazine's April 2009 issue contains a Commentary on the future of Risk Management by IA CEO Damian Handzy:

"The most interesting — and potentially promising — reaction to the current financial crisis has been the clamoring to fix, or even replace, one of the basic tenets underlying our understanding of economics, markets and risk management: the Efficient Market Hypothesis. The problems with the assumptions made by the EMH — which is the notion that market prices incorporate information instantaneously and rationally — have been well documented. But if markets don’t have instantaneous access to perfectly correct information, if the behavior of all market participants is not totally rational and if price movements are not totally independent of all ..."

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February 9, 2009

Investor Analytics and AlphaSimplex unveil A³ - Advanced Risk Analytics.

Advance Analytics target Tail, Liquidity and Fraud Risk. Flagging Madoff and Bayou with auto-correlations of their returns.

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November 13, 2008

ANDREW LO PROVIDES TESTIMONY TO CONGRESS
"Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008"

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October 28, 2008

INVESTOR ANALYTICS AND ALPHASIMPLEX TO OFFER ADVANCED RISK ANALYSES FOR THE HEDGE FUND INDUSTRY

Investor Analytics LLC, a global leader in risk analysis and risk management solutions to the hedge fund industry, announced today its plans to offer advanced analytics for the hedge fund industry based on research by Dr. Andrew Lo, Chief Scientific Officer of AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, an asset management firm specializing in alternative investments. The product—known as the AlphaSimplex Analytics Array or A3—will be available Q1 2009 on the Investor Analytic’s platform alongside its existing suite of risk tools for the hedge fund industry. A3 comes precisely at a time when many investment firms are focusing on better ways to analyze the risks in their alternatives portfolios and strategies.

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June 16, 2008

INVESTOR ANALYTICS SELECTS VISUAL NUMBERIC JMSL LIBRARIES TO SUPPORT NEXT GENERATION OF FINANCIAL RISK ANAYTICS

Today, Visual Numerics, Inc., a 37-year producer of advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, announced that Investor Analytics, LLC a leading provider of cutting-edge risk and transparency services to hedge funds and fund of hedge funds, has selected the Visual Numerics, JMSL Library to support their next generation of financial risk analytics.

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June 3, 2008

INVESTOR ANALYTICS LAUNCHES NEWLY UPGRADED WEBSITE PLATFORM FOR THE HEDGE FUND INDUSTRY

The new platform, which makes use of advanced analyses from Visual Numerics, allows end-users greater flexibility and clarity in understanding the potential drivers of risk.