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Morningstar, Inc. provides independent investment insights, data, research, indexes, credit ratings, and investment-management services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement providers, institutional clients, and market-data redistributors. News about the company commonly covers financial results, product development across the Morningstar Direct Platform, PitchBook private capital market intelligence, Morningstar Credit and Morningstar DBRS, Morningstar Indexes, and Morningstar Wealth and Retirement.
Recurring updates also include integrations that distribute Morningstar and PitchBook research through external platforms, index launches and rebrands, credit-market research tools, awards tied to manager research, completed acquisitions such as CRSP, dividend actions, and governance matters.
CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) and Morningstar entered a multi-year, exclusive licensing agreement for index derivatives. CME Group will launch derivatives based on key Morningstar US equity index benchmarks, including Total Market, Large Cap, Value, Growth, Mid Cap, and Small Cap Indexes.
The Morningstar Market Indexes, currently rebranding from CRSP, underpin over $3 trillion in linked assets. The partnership introduces derivatives on these benchmarks for the first time, aiming to expand risk management tools for global investors.
PitchBook (NASDAQ:MORN) announced a new Premium Connector integration with Harvey, the AI platform for legal and professional services. Licensed users can pull PitchBook’s private company, deal, fund, and investor data directly into Harvey using natural language prompts.
The connector, built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), lets mutual customers draft and analyze investment memos, term sheets, cap tables, diligence summaries, and fund documents in one workspace, with every figure linked back to its PitchBook source. The integration launches to Harvey customers in June and supports secure Single Sign-On (SSO) for mutual PitchBook–Harvey clients.
Morningstar Credit Analytics (Nasdaq:MORN) launched an AI integration that lets licensed users access CRE and CMBS data directly within Anthropic’s Claude via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Users can query live loan- and deal-level credit intelligence in natural language while preserving existing data governance and entitlement controls.
The integration supports delinquency, watchlist, special servicing, tranche analytics, and loan-level surveillance across conduit, SASB, CRE CLO, and agency deals. It requires no custom engineering and is part of Morningstar’s broader AI-forward strategy. The solution will be demonstrated at CREFC 2026 in New York.
Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) shared qualitative findings from its 2026 Asset Owner Perspectives Survey, based on interviews with 25 major institutional asset owners across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Key themes include US market concentration risk, diversification into private and real assets, cautious AI use, and evolving climate and sustainability data needs. A quantitative survey will follow in July–August, with results expected in September.
Morningstar Credit Analytics (Nasdaq:MORN) launched Corporate Credit Analytics on May 20, 2026, a platform to standardize private corporate credit analysis.
It combines Data Explorer (around 80 financial and credit metrics), Data Overview visualizations, and a Credit Estimate Tool aligned with Morningstar DBRS methodologies, targeting institutional users in the $2.5 trillion private credit market.
Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN) and PitchBook announced an integration with Perplexity on May 8, 2026 that embeds Morningstar- and PitchBook-backed research into Perplexity and Perplexity Computer via Model Context Protocol (MCP).
The integration enables citation-based, analyst-backed responses and multi-step AI research workflows for investors and financial professionals.
Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN) reported Q1 2026 results with revenue of $644.8M (+10.8% reported, +7.6% organic) and operating income of $155.9M (+36.6%). Diluted EPS rose to $2.73 (+50.0%); adjusted diluted EPS was $3.18 (+42.6%).
The company closed the CRSP acquisition, repurchased $300M of shares, increased net debt by $640M, and reported free cash flow of $53.6M (down 8.8%).
Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN) announced the rebrand of the CRSP Market Indexes to Morningstar Indexes, reflecting integration after Morningstar's completed acquisition of CRSP. The CRSP indexes benchmark over $3 trillion in U.S. equities and will adopt Morningstar naming with changes effective in late July.
The indexes will keep their existing methodology with no expected disruption to clients. Morningstar says it now has over $4.2 trillion in assets linked to its benchmarks across more than 370 investment products.
PitchBook LCD introduced the LCD Default Predictor, a monthly quantitative tool that estimates a six-month aggregate default rate for the Morningstar LSTA US Leveraged Loan Index (MORN). It combines real-time loan pricing, price momentum, and credit ratings to produce a forward-looking market default rate calibrated to historical patterns.
Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN) launched the Morningstar PitchBook Europe Modern Market 50 Index, a 50-name index blending 45 large Europe-listed companies and 5 liquid, late-stage venture-backed private firms.
The index uses daily pricing, verified secondary transactions for VC-backed firms, liquidity screens, and quarterly rebalances to create an investable benchmark combining public and private European equity exposure.