State Street Teams With FIS to Distribute Private Equity Index

The Private Equity Index will be integrated into Fidelity National Information Services’ (FIS) Data Exchange portal, a platform for sharing documents and data via advanced data visualizations, analytics and dynamic and interactive reporting.

Street Corporation will work with Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) to distribute its GX Private Equity Index (PEI), a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, to nearly 300 global asset management clients, including private equity managers, investors and third-party administrators.

The PEI will be integrated into FIS’s Data Exchange portal (DX), a platform for sharing documents and data via advanced data visualizations, analytics and dynamic and interactive reporting.

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“State Street’s GX Private Equity Index is a high-quality, industry-recognized source of private equity data,” says Sami Juma, chief operating officer, private equity business for Fidelity National. “We believe this benchmark will offer our clients increased transparency into the private equity landscape through which they can dynamically compare portfolio performance and make even more informed investment decisions.”

The PEI is based on directly-sourced limited partnership data, in some cases dating back to 1980. It represents more than $2.4 trillion in private equity investments, with more than 2,600 unique private equity partnerships, as of June 30, 2016.

“We are thrilled to partner with FIS to offer the PEI to their asset management clients,” says John Plansky, global head of State Street Global Exchange. “With the PEI, we believe FIS’s clients will benefit from the ability to create custom benchmarks, so they aren’t measuring performance against a sample that is not representative of their unique portfolio allocations. As private market investing becomes increasingly prevalent, we further believe investors need tools like these to help them avoid risk and successfully generate alpha.”

For additional insights, or to learn more about the GX Private Equity Index please visit http://www.ssgx.com/peindex.

OneAmerica Updates Financial Preparedness Website

The updated website offers pertinent videos and a variety of calculators to help assess student loan debt, tax issues and retirement preparedness.

An updated retirement readiness and financial wellness website released by OneAmerica features an “extensive library of materials” allowing plan sponsors to “focus on specific topics and resources that will resonate most with their employees.”

The website also contains participant-directed materials aimed at optimizing utilization of retirement benefit offerings.  

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Marsha Whitehead, vice president of marketing, communications and customer service, says the updated website has been crafted based in part on the findings of a 2016 survey of 10,000 retirement plan participants. Survey results showed only 40% of participants consider themselves either knowledgeable or very knowledgeable about retirement savings.

To help boost that number, the updated website offers pertinent videos and a variety of calculators to help assess student loan debt, tax issues and retirement preparedness.

More information is available at www.OneAmerica.com

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