Buy-side

Amid evolving market conditions, asset managers, asset owners, and consultants must strike a balance between risk and return.

Moody’s offers a reliable suite of data, analytics, tools, and insights that enables you to make informed decisions and improve business outcomes.

Through our award-winning risk and portfolio management solutions, we can help you identify, evaluate, and manage risk, while effectively capitalizing on investment opportunities.



How can we help?

Moody’s can help you improve investment outcomes, enhance regulatory compliance, and secure more business through our diverse offering of extensive data, world-class research, and award-winning analytics platforms.

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Create resilient portfolios

Use credible insights, data, and analysis to help you identify investment opportunities and risks.

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Maintain regulatory compliance

Integrate tools into your workflow that make responding to regulatory requirements easier, allowing you to focus on investment objectives.

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Achieve more growth

Applicable to various client segments, our comprehensive solutions deliver powerful portfolio analytics and risk management capabilities that can help you build better client relationships and win new business.

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Who we help

01 Asset owners

Asset owners

Our easy-to-integrate risk management solutions enable you to access powerful portfolio analytics that deliver operational efficiencies, improve investment outcomes, and provide greater portfolio transparency, which help you achieve plan objectives. 

02 Consultants and advisers

Consultants and advisers

Our customizable portfolio monitoring solutions help you effectively communicate investment strategies and risks to clients across a range of segments. Our flexible interface helps you realize operational efficiencies and lets you grow your business. 

03 Asset managers

Asset managers

Our adaptable, enterprise-grade risk management solutions help you understand risk, maintain compliance, and outperform investment objectives. By integrating with existing workflows, you can manage your business more effectively.

Asset owners

Our easy-to-integrate risk management solutions enable you to access powerful portfolio analytics that deliver operational efficiencies, improve investment outcomes, and provide greater portfolio transparency, which help you achieve plan objectives. 

Consultants and advisers

Our customizable portfolio monitoring solutions help you effectively communicate investment strategies and risks to clients across a range of segments. Our flexible interface helps you realize operational efficiencies and lets you grow your business. 

Asset managers

Our adaptable, enterprise-grade risk management solutions help you understand risk, maintain compliance, and outperform investment objectives. By integrating with existing workflows, you can manage your business more effectively.


Testimonial

“We chose Moody’s PFaroe E&F to help our endowment and foundation clients meet their goals by effectively managing risk exposures against return expectations.”

- Thomas Kennelly
Senior Investment Strategist OCIO, State Street Global Advisors

Solutions

Our risk management solutions for the buy-side can help you efficiently manage risk, identify suitable investment opportunities, respond to regulatory requirements, and secure more business.


01 Investment research

Investment research

Moody's provides extensive data, investment insights, and robust analytical tools that enhance investment research and acuity, giving asset owners, managers, and consultants the ability to make confident, well-informed choices. Gain a clearer perspective on portfolio risks and opportunities to help you reduce risk, maximize returns, and act decisively.

02 Strategic asset allocation

Strategic asset allocation

Strategic asset allocation is the foundation of sound investment decision-making.

With Moody’s, you can access comprehensive and specifically designed tools to easily develop, stress test, and monitor strategic asset allocation decisions.

Our solutions help clients create an optimal blend of asset classes that align with their investment objectives and provide the right balance of risk and return to meet those goals.

03 Portfolio monitoring and optimization

Portfolio monitoring and optimization

Asset managers are constantly in a fine balancing act of maximizing returns while aligning to specific client goals and preferences.

With Moody’s user-friendly solutions for buy-side participants, you can access timely and relevant information to support investment decisions, create resilient portfolios aligned to investor goals, and communicate easily digestible portfolio summaries.

04 Compliance and risk management

Compliance and risk management

Moody’s provides a holistic view of risk through a vast universe of data and intelligence on entities, sectors, and themes—delivering an unparalleled global view on Know Your Customer (KYC), anti-money laundering (AML), and security-level sanctions compliance. 

Our solutions can help you avoid regulatory breaches, gain operational efficiencies, and access portfolio monitoring tools to address your compliance and risk management needs.

Investment research

Moody's provides extensive data, investment insights, and robust analytical tools that enhance investment research and acuity, giving asset owners, managers, and consultants the ability to make confident, well-informed choices. Gain a clearer perspective on portfolio risks and opportunities to help you reduce risk, maximize returns, and act decisively.

Strategic asset allocation

Strategic asset allocation is the foundation of sound investment decision-making.

With Moody’s, you can access comprehensive and specifically designed tools to easily develop, stress test, and monitor strategic asset allocation decisions.

Our solutions help clients create an optimal blend of asset classes that align with their investment objectives and provide the right balance of risk and return to meet those goals.

Portfolio monitoring and optimization

Asset managers are constantly in a fine balancing act of maximizing returns while aligning to specific client goals and preferences.

With Moody’s user-friendly solutions for buy-side participants, you can access timely and relevant information to support investment decisions, create resilient portfolios aligned to investor goals, and communicate easily digestible portfolio summaries.

Compliance and risk management

Moody’s provides a holistic view of risk through a vast universe of data and intelligence on entities, sectors, and themes—delivering an unparalleled global view on Know Your Customer (KYC), anti-money laundering (AML), and security-level sanctions compliance. 

Our solutions can help you avoid regulatory breaches, gain operational efficiencies, and access portfolio monitoring tools to address your compliance and risk management needs.


Capabilities

No matter the task at hand, you can access a proven suite of Moody’s integrated capabilities to help you achieve your business goals.


Sanctioned securities and compliance monitoring

Sanctioned securities and compliance monitoring

Using one of the largest universes of entity data available today, we provide reliable KYC insights detailing your exposure to sanctions risk to support your due diligence process.

Cyber

Cyber

Our cyber risk ratings provide insights on companies to help you generate alpha and build more resilient portfolios.

News and sentiment analysis

News and sentiment analysis

Use real-time information to make timely portfolio decisions that help you seize investment opportunities.

Climate

Climate

Evaluate physical climate risks’ financial implications and uncover opportunities in both a standalone and integrated manner across portfolios.

Economic and climate scenarios

Economic and climate scenarios

Our economic and climate data, forecasts, scenarios, and analysis help you minimize risk and understand the financial impact climate hazards and macroeconomic threats can have on portfolios.

Fixed income analytics

Fixed income analytics

We deliver a breadth of data, analytics, and insights that help you monitor adverse credit signals, analyze complex asset classes, capture opportunities, and manage downside portfolio risks.

Research (public and private markets)

Research (public and private markets)

Our solutions deliver comprehensive insights on public and private company financial data and industry-leading credit information.

Asset liability management

Asset liability management

We help you create an optimal blend of asset classes for the right balance of risk and return to meet your investment objectives.

Portfolio analytics

Portfolio analytics

Moody’s extensive asset class coverage provides transparency into a portfolio’s exposure, risk, and performance.




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Customers

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Clara Pensions

Clara Pensions uses PFaroe™ defined-benefit (DB) pension risk modeling technology to model and manage the liabilities and risks it faces as part of Clara’s “member-first” approach.

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Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)

Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), one of the largest pension schemes in the UK, uses PFaroe for greater control and superior governance.

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Income Research + Management

Income Research + Management uses Pension Analytics to connect liability-driven investing (LDI) solutions to clients’ specific needs.


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State Street Global Advisors

Globally-renowned asset manager adopts Moody’s PFaroe E&F to assess the impact of spending policies on investment trajectories.

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Top 10 US Bank

A prominent US bank integrates PFaroe DB to manage its DB plans, streamline operations, and analyze complex data.


How is Moody’s solving challenges for the investor community?


With changing market conditions and the growth of private market assets, many investors face a greater need for timely insights on investment portfolios.

Matthew Bale, Head of Product Management for Moody’s Buy-Side Solutions, sat down with Pensions & Investments to discuss how rising interest rates have impacted their clients’ strategic asset allocation decisions.






News and views

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How is GenAI transforming asset management?

In our latest report, we explore how GenAI is rapidly transforming the asset management space, offering unparalleled opportunities for firms to streamline operations, enhance decision-making, and deliver personalized client experiences. But this transformation doesn’t come without its challenges: regulatory hurdles, data governance, and AI transparency all require careful navigation.

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Blockchain and digital tokens could build the future of physical infrastructure

DePINs -- decentralized physical infrastructure networks -- can string together everyday digital components to assemble a blockchain-based alternative to many sectors’ traditional networks.

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Moody’s launches sanctioned securities screening for investment portfolios

The intuitive tool enables asset managers to continually and efficiently monitor portfolios for sanctions risk, avoid regulatory breaches, and make portfolio decisions with confidence.

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Overcoming data overload: How can insurers embed climate risk within their asset allocation framework?

Insurers have access to more data and analytics to capture climate considerations than ever before. Yet, from this, a new challenge has arisen: making sure the insights are relevant to exact needs. Discover how Moody’s PFaroe Insurance can restore clarity in the age of data overload.

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Are private market investments helping insurer’s portfolios?

Private market assets have become a bigger part of an insurer’s broad asset allocation mix. Quantifying the risk associated with alternative investments can pose many challenges. This article provides a different perspective on how to simplify the process and assess the impact of a wide range of alternatives on an insurers’ risk and return profile.

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Key trends and challenges for the Canadian pension market

While there are common themes affecting the global pension landscape, such as quickly rising interest rates prompting pension plans to rethink their asset allocation and potentially accelerate derisking strategies, there are specific trends shaping the Canadian market.

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Increase confidence in your investment decisions with third-party data

Implementing a robust risk management process, from the front office to the back, to provide a 360° view of investment and portfolio risk has helped asset managers and investment professionals stay on top of market movements and global shifts.

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Hidden risks for DB pension plans

In 2022, global markets were tumultuous, with inflation levels reaching peaks not seen for decades. With monetary policy driving rises in interest rates to curb inflation, we’ve seen dramatic increases in US interest rates in the past 18 months.

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Key challenges and opportunities for the DB pension market

The defined-benefit (DB) pension market faces a continually evolving landscape in which disparate specialist skills are required to maneuver the path.

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The impact of credit risk on CDI

Over the past decade, CDI has gained traction as pension plans have successfully de-risked and strengthened their balance sheets.

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Why asset managers should have their heads in the cloud

With all the vendor hype and hyperbole around cloud computing, institutional asset managers could be forgiven for feeling fatigued. However, there is strong evidence to suggest that many firms using legacy on-premises solutions face internal pressure to migrate to a hosted solution in whole or in part.  

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Credit risk
Credit risk

Our credit risk analysis provides a detailed evaluation of a borrower's creditworthiness—and enables buy-side professionals to make informed decisions about debt investments, including bonds, loans, and credit derivatives.

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Company reference data
Company reference data

Our extensive data resources offer a comprehensive view of risk across the entire organization, allowing buy-side participants to proactively manage risks and seize profitable opportunities.

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Climate risk
Climate risk

Physical, transition, and liability risks can have a significant impact on investment portfolios. Our climate solutions help buy-side participants make more informed, responsible decisions.

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Structured finance
Structured finance

Our reliable insights, data, and decision tools help asset managers select structured finance solutions that meet their clients’ needs, and give them the competitive edge.

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