SystematIQ Research to Present on Enhancing Stock Selection with Event-Driven Information at CFA

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 8, 2009 --

NEW YORK, NY, April 8, 2009 – ClariFI, a Standard & Poor's Capital IQ business and leading provider of software and services focused exclusively on providing investment managers with complete solutions to their research and production workflows, today announced that Mr. Carson Boneck, CFA, will present the results from SystematIQ Research’s in depth study of how discrete qualitative and quantitative events impact future company results, at the 62nd CFA Institute Annual Conference on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort Convention Center, Grand Republic Ballroom C-D at 7:30am.

Leveraging a proprietary non-financial datafeed of “Key Developments” from Capital IQ, and the new Event Study module from ClariFI, Mr. Boneck will discuss which Key Events – from board changes, to bankruptcy announcements, to index constituent additions, to M&A rumors – influence investor behavior and how portfolio managers incorporate this information in their existing strategies.

Mr. Boneck, CFA, is Managing Director at SystematIQ Research, a new independent institutional quantitative research group from Capital IQ which specializes in institutional quantitative research, modeling and consulting. He has extensive experience in quantitative equity research and stock selection modeling gained through his previous work at a variety of research groups. Mr. Boneck is a CFA charterholder and former board member of the Chicago CFA Society.

For more information on this presentation stop by the Standard & Poor’s Compustat®, ClariFI®, and SystematIQ Research™ Exhibit or visit http://clarifi.com/Events-CFA.php.

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About CFA Institute

CFA Institute is the global association for investment professionals. It administers the CFA and CIPM curriculum and exam programs worldwide; publishes research; conducts professional development programs; and sets voluntary, ethics-based professional and performance-reporting standards for the investment industry. CFA Institute has nearly 100,000 members, who include the world’s 82,572 CFA charterholders, as well as 136 affiliated professional societies in 57 countries and territories. More information may be found at www.cfainstitute.org.

About SystematIQ Research

SystematIQ Research is a new independent institutional quantitative research group from Capital IQ which specializes in uncovering new anomalies and differentiated stock selection strategies from non-traditional and unique datasets. Combined with its own proprietary global infrastructure, SystematIQ Research is the first quantitative research group to collectively leverage Capital IQ-Compustat Global Point In Time datasets, collection facility, ClariFI’s advanced research and strategy development platforms and a variety of third party data. For more information visit www.systematiq-research.com.

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