Investics DARTS Index Service

MSCI has been at the forefront of index construction and maintenance for more than 50 years, launching its first global equity indexes in 1969. They remain a market leader by expanding and enhancing index offerings to reflect the evolving and complex needs of the institutional investment community – with groundbreaking new products, innovative research, high quality data and dedicated client support.

In order to subscribe to this Investics DARTS offering, users are required to have subscriptions to at least one index module from MSCI and also to Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE) . An Investics service representative will assist in confirming both subscriptions. Upon subscription to this service, all the MSCI Indexes modules a user is subscribed to are automatically aggregated and delivered through Investics ICE. This includes daily MSCI Indexes constituents, performance, index and security masters datasets.

Investics DARTS is designed to deliver datasets ready for downstream software consumption (BI Tools, report writers, cloud services, data lakes, data warehouses, databases and spreadsheets, just to name a few) by normalizing content across different data sources and remediating common anomalies which can cause data to be misinterpreted, rejected, dropped, misaligned or require additional redundant manual steps to make the data usable. To learn about other Investics DARTS data offerings, please click here.

The required Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE) subscription will automatically flow Investics DARTS subscription data in multiple file formats, along with its metadata, straight through into ICE in order to automatically stitch related data together (including holdings and reference data) and generate materialized views, data cubes and data marts instantly connectable to value added data management capabilities, calculation engines and visualizations to accommodate an almost unlimited set of use cases. To learn more about Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE) or to subscribe in order to receive MSCI Index data through this service, please click here.

Free one month trial to this Investics DARTS service is available for qualified subscribers. For more information please contact us at: info@investics.com.

Additional Information

• MSCI Indexes Webpage 
• Powering Better Investment Decisions for a Better World 
• MSCI Global Investable Market Indexes Methodology 
• MSCI Global Investable Market Indexes Value and Growth Methodology 

Additional Pricing Information

• A free one month trial is available to a limited and qualified number of clients. To learn more and see if you qualify, please inquire at info@investics.com.

Metadata

• Update Frequency | Daily
• Geographic coverage | Global
• Time period coverage | Current
• Is historical data “point-in-time” | Yes
• Data Set(s) Format(s) | CSV JSON Glue Parquet AVRO ORC & XML filetypes
• Compression Format(s) | Brotli Snappy
• Number of companies covered | >18k
• Metadata data file available when used in conjunction with Investics ICE
• Security master delivered through AWS Data Exchange
• Security master, constituents, performance and index master delivered via Investics ICE

Regulatory and Compliance

This product is allowed for internal use only, users are not allowed to distribute the data externally without permission. If you're interested in a re-distribution of data use case, please contact at support@investics.com

Related Investics Links

• Investics Website 
• Investics DARTS can flow subscription data in multiple file formats, along with its metadata, straight through into the Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE) in order to automatically stitch related data together (including holdings and reference data) and generate materialized views, data cubes and data marts instantly connectable to value added data management capabilities, calculation engines and visualizations to accommodate an almost unlimited set of use cases. For further information on the Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE), please click here.
• Additional Investics data service offerings can be found on the Investics website with sample trial data available on interactive dashboards by clicking here .
• Additional Investics DARTS offerings can be found on AWS Data Exchange by clicking here.

Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)

For Investics DARTS subscribers who also subscribe to Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE), your DARTS data files will automatically be propagated to your ICE Bucket immediately after the DARTS AWS Data Exchange (ADX) dataset revisions are added to the DARTS product offerings.

These DARTS files are renamed when they arrive in the Investics ICE Bucket with date and time stamp for archiving and retrieval purposes and can be found in your AWS S3 Investics ICE Bucket under the folder\file names (with no spaces):

\ Investics \ DARTS \ {vendor name} \ {vendor product name} \ {vendor sub-product name(s)} \ {filename} _ {date time stamp} . {filetype} . {compression filetype (if any)}

Background - ICE is a native cloud investment data and analytics platform-as-a-service (PaaS). ICE can help institutional investors achieve “The Complete Investment Picture” across the multi-asset class risk and return spectrum. Running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Investics ICE is a next generation native cloud investment data and analytics platform which combines data collection, aggregation, modeling and management with dynamic calculation engines and visualizations to meet common institutional investor industry requirements including performance measurement, risk analytics, investment compliance and regulatory reporting.

ICE has four primary components:​

1. DARTS Data Aggregation Remediation Transformation Service - DARTS is a data delivery supermarket delivered through AWS Data Exchange. Subscribers can easily procure vendor data modeled and optimized for immediate use in downstream cloud and non-cloud software, BI Tools and systems. Data available through DARTS today include portfolio holdings and transactions, ESG, risk statistics, characteristics, benchmarks, security master and reference.
2. Fusion Data fabric construct - manage and govern the stitching and modeling of different institutional investor datasets for almost any downstream investment data and analytics use case. Data wrangling recipes provided via crowdsourcing. Automatically generate fit-for-purpose materialized views, data cubes and data marts.
3. IMPRES In-Memory Performance Risk Engine System - next generation performance and risk analytical engine which has maximum flexibility to instantly calculate in real time a truly customized risk and return service. IMPRES can accommodate some of today’s toughest performance measurement challenges including ABOR to IBOR to PBOR transformation, appropriate handling of private investments, flexible hierarchies,attribution and risk.
4. Vision Data visualization - produce highly customized interactive dashboards and reports with embedding capabilities to seamlessly integrate visualizations into clients’ own websites.

All of the ICE components are designed to deliver datasets ready for downstream software consumption (BI Tools, report writers, cloud services, data lakes, data warehouses, databases and spreadsheets, just to name a few) by normalizing content across different data sources and remediating common anomalies which can cause data to be misinterpreted, rejected, dropped, misaligned or require additional redundant manual steps to make the data usable. In addition, all of the ICE components can work independently or in tandem with each other. In fact, ICE will automatically flow DARTS subscription data, along with its metadata, straight through into ICE in order to automatically stitch related data together (including holdings and reference data) and generate materialized views, data cubes and data marts instantly connectable to value added data management capabilities, calculation engines and visualizations to accommodate an almost unlimited set of use cases.

For existing subscribers to AWS, it takes only about 10 minutes and costs virtually nothing to subscribe to ICE. ICE itself takes about 3 minutes to spin up once a subscriber has clicked through the subscription agreement options and provided some contact information. Upon verification by an Investics support staff member, a new subscriber receives a link to their hosted ICE environment via email and they are up and running. After a subscription to either ICE or a new DARTS offering it takes about 36 hours for DARTS subscription data and ICE to synchronize and begin to auto update your Investics ICE Bucket.

For further information on the Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE), please click here.

Need Any Help?

Do not hesitate to contact us at info@investics.com or +1.781.472.2163 (during normal EST business hours).