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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.
PitchBook (NASDAQ:MORN) will co-host a live recording of Madrona’s Founded & Funded podcast during the fourth annual Seattle Tech Week at PitchBook’s Seattle headquarters. Executive VP of Research & Market Intelligence Nizar Tarhuni and Madrona partner Sabrina Albert will discuss AI, venture funding concentration and the IPO pipeline.
According to PitchBook, three companies captured roughly two-thirds of all AI venture funding in Q1 2026, while the US private market holds a record 945 unicorns worth $5.3 trillion. The event, scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, 3:00–6:00 PM, includes a live discussion, audience Q&A and networking reception.
Lumonic (MORN), an AI-powered portfolio monitoring platform and PitchBook company, announced general availability of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for all customers. The server connects approved MCP-enabled assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude directly to a firm’s Lumonic workspace, providing read-only access to portfolio financials, covenant status, reporting status, and KPIs, all mapped to existing user permissions.
Each figure returned includes a link to its exact source document location, supporting audit-ready workflows. Lumonic also launched an MCP Library of tested prompts and artifacts and highlighted combined use with PitchBook’s Premium Connector to pull private market data and portfolio financials into unified, auditable Excel models.
Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN) has launched the Morningstar US Capital Allocation Leaders Index, a research-driven index targeting mid- and large-cap US companies whose management teams are assessed as having strong, shareholder-friendly capital allocation track records. The index combines Morningstar’s forward-looking equity research with a transparent, rules-based methodology.
The index will serve as the underlying benchmark for the Global X Morningstar Capital Allocation Leaders ETF (CPTL). It focuses on companies with a favorable Morningstar Capital Allocation Rating, which evaluates management across three pillars: investment efficacy, balance sheet health, and shareholder distributions.
PitchBook, a private capital market intelligence platform, announced it was named “Best Alternative Data Provider” in the Waters Technology Rankings 2026, based on crowd-sourced votes from capital markets technology professionals. Winners were revealed July 1 at the Waters Technology Risk & Markets Show in London.
According to the company, PitchBook tracks more than 12.75 million companies, 3 million deals, 600,000 investors, 170,000 funds, 64,000 limited partners, and 128,000 service providers. In February it launched PitchBook Valuation Estimates, covering over 15,000 VC-backed companies, and in July introduced Time to Exit, a machine learning feature within its VC Exit Predictor.
Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN) announced it will relocate its London operations, including PitchBook teams, to a new office at One Millennium Bridge near St Paul’s, London. The company plans to occupy about 75,000 square feet, with the move targeted for June 2027.
According to Morningstar, consolidating colleagues from across Morningstar and PitchBook in one modern, well-connected workplace is intended to support current working practices, enhance collaboration, and create a welcoming space for clients and partners. The building was chosen for its central location, strong sustainability credentials, and targeted BREEAM Excellent and EPC A ratings, as well as its all-electric heating and cooling system and river views.
PitchBook (MORN) launched Time to Exit, a machine learning tool within its VC Exit Predictor that estimates the probability a VC-backed company will exit within one, three, or five years. It updates daily using company and market data, supporting deal sourcing, portfolio monitoring, LP reporting, and benchmarking.
Morningstar (Nasdaq:MORN) plans to report its second-quarter 2026 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. The company will not host an analyst conference call, but investors can submit written questions via email.
Morningstar (Nasdaq:MORN) announced new AI integrations with Microsoft technologies to embed its independent investment intelligence into enterprise workflows. The solutions span Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Key elements include a federated Copilot connector, a dedicated Morningstar agent in Copilot, and a Morningstar plugin for Copilot Cowork, aimed at supporting faster, more informed investment research, analysis, and reporting.
PitchBook (NASDAQ:MORN) announced a federated connector that brings its private capital market data into Microsoft 365 Copilot, including Copilot in Excel, Copilot Chat and Researcher. Licensed users can query PitchBook via natural language, build models, summarize research, and create presentations inside Microsoft 365.
The integration extends PitchBook’s broader AI strategy, emphasizing human-verified data, secure enterprise AI environments, and strict privacy where proprietary client data is not used to train AI models.
Morningstar and Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) announced a strategic collaboration to launch the Morningstar Houlihan CLO Indexes, a suite of daily valued benchmarks for the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) market, expected later this year.
The indexes aim to improve transparency, pricing consistency, and performance measurement in a global CLO market estimated at more than $1.5 trillion in assets, with potential to exceed $3 trillion by 2030. The series will combine Morningstar’s index design and governance with Houlihan Lokey’s valuation framework and credit market expertise to provide investors with tools for assessing performance and managing risk in a rapidly expanding segment of private credit.