Barra launches Risk Factor

Barra, the California-based risk management systems vendor, has launched an equity volatility software programme, Risk Factor. Aimed at retail brokers, Risk Factor is designed to compare the relative volatility and likely performance risk of more than 10,000 individual stocks.

Barra’s launch partner, ILX Systems, a provider of real-time equity price terminals, will integrate RiskFactor to its 160,000 retail brokers in its 'long-quote' screen.

Joe Lanza, head of Risk Factor and senior vice-president at Barra, acknowledged that competing equity volatility models have been in the market for a while, but argued that Barra’s product has benefited from the market’s reaction to existing systems.

“We asked brokers what type of risk information was important to them and how they

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