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Morningstar, Inc., Chicago, (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, has launched its latest version of Morningstar Direct(SM), a Web-based global research platform that connects institutional investment professionals directly to Morningstar's investment research and data. The most significant addition to Morningstar Direct is performance attribution analysis. This new functionality allows users to quantify and analyze the impact of portfolio decisions, like sector weighting or security selection, on equity performance. Users can perform attribution analysis on their own private portfolios, imported as frequently as daily, in addition to the more than 30,000 actively managed equity investments in the Morningstar database.
Performance attribution analysis examines differences in performance between an actively...