S&P's Money Market Directories Expands Its Coverage Beyond the US and Canada

NEW YORK, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's Money Market Directories (MMD), a leading source of financial research and data on the institutional investor industry, announced expanded international coverage with the availability of its MMD Global dataset on MMD WebAccess (www.mmdwebaccess.com). This new MMD dataset includes asset information and contact details of pension funds, endowments, tax-exempt organizations and sovereign wealth funds from around the world, and complements its distinguished coverage of the US and Canadian marketplace.

This latest addition to MMD WebAccess will open the door for prospecting and identifying new business in the international investment community. With ongoing coverage of institutions in more than 80 countries (throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas), users will have the opportunity to reach out to over 20,000 key contacts managing a total of $16 trillion in assets. MMD Global comes on the heels of MMD's most recent release of MMD Global Family Offices, a dataset which initiated MMD coverage of the growing single and multi-family office industry.

"Today, more than ever before, investment firms are compelled to seek out global opportunities beyond their immediate borders," comments Jay Zachter, managing director of Standard & Poor's Directory Services. "With MMD Global, we remain committed to providing the most up to date, accurate and actionable information for this international market."

About MMD WebAccess

Standard & Poor's Money Market Directories' WebAccess is an online tool that offers clients access to data on global institutional investors, such as pension plan sponsors, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and their service providers. Users have the ability to run customized searches by selecting from categories that include asset size, type of institution, key contacts, external relationships with investment managers, consultants and custodians, asset allocations by plan type and more. The Money Market Directories' database contains 84,000 pension plan sponsors, endowments and foundations, 300+ pension consultants, 27,000 investment advisory firms and a full database of US broker-dealers. Most recently, MMD has launched a Global Family Offices dataset.

About Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With offices in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit http://www.standardandpoors.com.

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