Learn How Leading Analysts at Lipper Inc. Improved Financial Product Design and Analysis by 300% Using S-PLUS

Speaker: Andrew Clark, Senior Research Analyst, Lipper Inc
Date: October 23rd, 2003 at 11:00 EST

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Abstract
Lipper Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reuters, is a global information and fund analysis firm that produces weekly, monthly and quarterly market reviews, and needs fast and accurate analytical tools in order to add value in a crowded market. Andrew Clark, Senior Research Analyst at Lipper, will review the use of S-PLUS for production, financial product design and 'ad hoc' financial analysis.

See how Lipper analysts use S-PLUS to design financial products quickly decreasing their time-to-market by as much as 300%. Learn why S-PLUS was selected as the design environment of choice for Lipper's Daily Net Flows product and how S-PLUS's robust Least Trimmed Squares (LTS) tool was used to detect and reject outliers to improve financial product design.

Finally, Andrew Clark will show S-PLUS's strengths as a powerful production environment for monthly rating of more than 15,000 mutual funds. Specifically he'll examine how Lipper used S-PLUS to test the effectiveness of Hurst and Effective Return as investment selection tools for mutual funds.