We have formed a strategic alliance with CloudAttribution to integrate their best-in-class performance attribution capabilities into our thinkFolio investment management platform, as part of our strategy of increasing flexibility, interoperability and delivering further analytics insights to address the evolving needs of the front office.

The partnership brings together thinkFolio's multi-asset decision support suite and CloudAttribution's cloud-native, performance attribution models and technology for fixed-income and multi-asset portfolio management. The integration will enable mutual clients of thinkFolio and CloudAttribution to bring performance attribution to their desktops and to flexibly evaluate portfolio performance for a variety of cross-asset institutional investment strategies, including ESG.

CloudAttribution's mission is to make life easier for portfolio managers and performance teams through streamlined data handling and to provide clear and more straightforward attribution models. The partnership follows the announcement in December that leading portfolio and risk analytics capabilities are being integrated with thinkFolio as well. As a result of extending our suite of interoperable partnerships in these domains, mutual clients have the option of leveraging end-to-end analytical insights within thinkFolio - from portfolio construction and pre-trade risk analytics to post-trade performance attribution.

"The CloudAttribution partnership brings an innovative performance attribution approach to the thinkFolio solution ecosystem," said Brett Schechterman, Global Head of thinkFolio at IHS Markit. "thinkFolio clients can now apply a flexible post-trade lens to unlock insights as to which levers within their decision framework impacted active returns. Through our partnerships with CloudAttribution and leading risk management providers, we are pleased provide access to analytics that span the investment lifecycle, and to increase the options available to portfolio managers and other key stakeholders across the enterprise."

"As a company that has focused on fixed-income and multi-asset requirements from day one, we are excited to bring our performance attribution modelling and approach to a wider group of fixed-income, multi-asset and equity managers through thinkFolio," said Peter Simmons, CEO and Founder of CloudAttribution. "Together, CloudAttribution and thinkFolio are empowering the front office with an investment management platform that supports the unique attribution requirements of multi-asset and fixed-income investment strategies."

Learn more about the thinkFolio/CloudAttribution partnership.

About thinkFolio

thinkFolio from IHS Markit is a leading multi-asset investment management platform that delivers sophisticated capabilities across portfolio modelling, order management and trading, cash and FX management, compliance and the investment book of record (IBOR). The platform is delivered as a managed service, supporting investment firms that want to reduce costs, maximize flexibility, enhance scale and achieve time-to-market objectives.

IHS Markit provides industry-leading data, software and technology platforms and managed services to tackle some of the most difficult challenges in financial markets. We help our customers better understand complicated markets, reduce risk, operate more efficiently and comply with financial regulation.

About CloudAttribution

Founded in 2012, CloudAttribution is a privately-owned business with offices in London and Chicago. CloudAttribution is a pioneering provider of cloud-based, daily attribution and reporting for institutional asset managers. Its unique cloud-native approach allows rapid implementation and an ability to handle the most complex fixed-income and multi-asset attribution challenges. CloudAttribution works with some of the world's leading financial institutions, empowering fund and performance managers to drive better investments by delivering total transparency and visibility on the source of their returns. Please visit our website or follow us on LinkedIn.

S&P Global provides industry-leading data, software and technology platforms and managed services to tackle some of the most difficult challenges in financial markets. We help our customers better understand complicated markets, reduce risk, operate more efficiently and comply with financial regulation.

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