Capital Management Sciences has formed a partnership with RBC Dominion...

Capital Management Sciences has formed a partnership with RBC Dominion Securities to supply Canadian bond analytics to the Canadian marketplace, said Terry Geske, senior vice president-product development. CMS will supply analytics on Canadian government, municipal, provincial and corporate bond indexes, including numerous sub-indexes based on bond ratings, industry and duration. A money market index and a Canadian high-yield bond index will also be included in the Canadian version of CMS BondEdge. Marlene Puffer, head of fixed-income analytics at RBC, expects that optimization tools, full-blown performance attribution and mortgage-backed securities analysis data will be included in an upcoming release. No date has been set for the second release. RBC had provided analytics in a partnership with BARRA and will continue to provide data to BARRA clients until October.