Thomson Reuters has rolled out a number of new features for the buy-side on its flagship financial markets desktop, Eikon. These enhancements will provide portfolio managers, analysts, strategists and economists with access to analytics and workflow capabilities giving them insight and advantage.

Microsoft add-in feature

The new Microsoft Office add-in feature for Eikon enables portfolio managers and analysts to leverage the Thomson Reuters content in applications such as Excel and PowerPoint to produce insightful models and superior presentations. This feature includes Excel tools to facilitate deep analysis of premium content sets, including Datastream, fundamentals, StarMine analytics, smart estimates and key performance indicators. The addition of StarMine models to Eikon leverages new visualization technology to provide buy-side customers with greater insight to uncover actionable opportunities and better understand credit risk.

Datastream charting app

The new Datastream charting app in Eikon allows economists and strategists to leverage the full power of Datastream's deep, cross-asset time-series database and robust analytics and publishing tools to access prebuilt studies, generate new charts from the chart studio or access their existing library of charts. A new macro explorer app provides financial professionals with an intuitive view of global economies, allowing them to screen across hundreds of content sets sourced from Datastream and apply visualization techniques, including maps, bubble charts, motion tables and filters to investigate content and gain new insight.

Portfolio analytics

Eikon portfolio analytics provides investment professionals with an intuitive monitor of intra-day performance across any number of portfolios and benchmarks, allowing them to identify primary drivers of absolute and relative performance at the sector/security level. Eikon briefcase is another workflow capability that allows users to collect, manage and access key content and documents via their mobile solution and synchronize this with the desktop, allowing them to work remotely from anywhere at any time.

Instead of a fixed home screen, Eikon now manifests itself as a floating command bar at the top of a customer's screen, staying visible whatever application the customer is currently using and enabling quick access to Eikon's data and tools. The floating command bar works seamlessly with the Eikon plug-in for Google Chrome which installs into the toolbar of Google Chrome's browser interface and on-demand allows Eikon to analyse information that is being viewed on the Internet and provide key related data for any entities listed on the page.

Real-time analysis tool for commodity supply chains

Thomson Reuters have also added a new tool to Eikon, Commodity Flows, to provide commodity market professionals with an assessment tool to track the global movement of commodities in real-time and forecast the influence of important impact factors upon supply, demand and market prices.

Initially, Commodity Flows provides a single database of individual oil cargoes, incorporating information from vessel tracking, fixtures, tenders and port inspection to provide an assessment of the forward and historical movement of a commodity into a particular port or trading hub. Customers can view the aggregated assessment provided by Thomson Reuters team of analysts or build their own commodity flow models. Commodity Flows models can be exported to Microsoft Excel or viewed in real-time using advanced map imagery available in Interactive Map in Eikon, enabling customers to view the data in the way that best suits their needs. 

Thomson Reuters plans to add flow data for other commodities to the Commodity Flows monitoring tool in due course.