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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.
Morningstar (MORN) has completed the third-quarter reconstitution of the Morningstar Market Indexes, which currently underpin more than $3 trillion in investor assets, including over $2 trillion linked to the Morningstar US Total Market Index.
The update incorporates SpaceX via Morningstar’s “fast-track” IPO methodology; despite a $2 trillion IPO valuation, SpaceX represented about 0.1% of the US Total Market Index at August month-end because of its limited free float. The Morningstar US Micro Cap Index gained nearly 22% year-to-date through Sept. 4, with micro-cap and value stocks outpacing large growth. Market concentration stayed high, with the 10 largest stocks at 35% of index market cap and mega-caps falling to 165. Morningstar platforms will adopt these indexes as category benchmarks in the fourth quarter.
Morningstar (MORN) released its 10th annual Health Savings Account Landscape Report, evaluating 11 leading HSA providers as both spending and long-term investment accounts.
The study finds total HSA assets rose 19% in 2025 with $14.9 billion of net inflows and assets roughly quadrupling since 2009. Fidelity received the only High spending account assessment, while HSA Bank earned a High investment account assessment for the first time. Seven providers now offer brokerage-window access, reflecting lower fees, broader investment options, and a more competitive HSA market.
Morningstar (MORN)/b) declared a quarterly cash dividend of 50 cents per share for shareholders.The dividend matches the amount paid in July and is payable on October 30, 2026 to shareholders of record as of October 2, 2026. The company describes itself as a provider of independent investment insights and reports approximately $375 billion in assets under management and advisement as of June 30, 2026, operating through wholly owned subsidiaries in 32 countries.
PitchBook (MORN) has been named a 2026 Top 100 Global Inspiring Place to Work by Inspiring Workplaces Group for the second consecutive year and a 2026 Top 100 Inspiring Place to Work in North America for the third consecutive year, ranking 41st regionally.
The awards recognize organizations across regions worldwide for trust- and purpose-driven cultures, evaluated on six pillars: culture and purpose, leadership, wellbeing, employee voice, employee experience, and inclusion and belonging. Judges highlighted PitchBook's strengths in wellbeing plus inclusion and belonging, and the company links this culture to its ability to help teams adapt and support clients in fast-moving private capital markets.
Morningstar (MORN), through PitchBook-owned Lumonic, launched Lumonic 12.0, an AI-driven portfolio monitoring platform that accepts natural-language instructions and automates data extraction from portfolio company and borrower documents.
The new architecture records every agent action in an auditable log, requires human approval before data is written, and traces each extracted value back to its exact source. Initial capabilities focus on AI extraction that auto-starts on document upload, applies firm-specific metric decisions across periods, and runs built-in checks such as balance sheet tie-outs and cash flow reconciliations. Since being acquired by PitchBook in 2025, Lumonic has more than doubled its customer base year-over-year and now supports monitoring of over 5,000 portfolio companies.
Morningstar (MORN) released its fifth annual Asset Owner Perspectives Survey, showing global asset owners increased exposure to U.S. assets and private markets while viewing generative AI, inflation, and energy and supply chains as the most material global investment issues.
More asset owners increased (31%) than decreased (24%) U.S. exposure last year, reversing the prior year’s trend. Asset owners expect private market allocations to rise from 19% of assets under management today to 23% within five years, with European investors targeting 25%. Liquidity risks (63%) and transparency issues (43%) remain key barriers.
ESG integration above 75% of AUM is reported by 18% of asset owners, slightly down from last year but above 2024 levels, with North America rising to 43% and Europe falling to 43%. AI-related macro concerns focus on high valuations and capex (73%), market concentration (65%), and reliance on a few mega providers (63%). The survey covers more than 500 asset owners across 11 countries, representing over $20 trillion in assets.
Morningstar (MORN) launched “Game On,” a U.S. brand campaign addressing how blurring public and private markets create new information and evaluation challenges for investors.
The campaign uses a game-inspired, 8‑bit world to highlight four investor hurdles—visibility, measurement, credit risk assessment, and portfolio implementation—tied to Morningstar’s Data, Credit Ratings, Indexes, and Investments offerings. PitchBook contributes data on more than 13 million privately held companies and nearly 300,000 debt‑financed companies. Morningstar cites semiliquid fund assets approaching $600 billion as of March 2026 and notes that Morningstar Wealth is working with Apollo, Franklin Templeton, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management on public/private model portfolios. “Game On” will run across digital, video, social, industry media, out‑of‑home, and Morningstar-owned channels in the U.S.
PitchBook (MORN) has become a data partner for ChatGPT for Financial Services, enabling users to access its expanded firmographic dataset directly within the ChatGPT interface.
Teams using ChatGPT for Financial Services can query company-, investor-, and fund-level data through PitchBook’s Essential connector without separate activation. The data is indexed inside ChatGPT, appears with citations for verification, and is positioned as a grounding source of human-verified private capital market intelligence for AI-driven investor workflows.
Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN) announced that its enterprise-wide AI Academy received three Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards®: a Gold for Best Custom Content and Silver awards for Best Learning Strategy and Best Use of AI for Learning.
The 10-week AI Academy builds AI fluency, confidence, and responsible-use skills through self-paced learning, facilitation, peer collaboration, and hands-on practice. According to Morningstar, the program has reached more than 6,000 employees globally, representing over half its workforce, and is being expanded with a refreshed digital-first experience and a new Agentic AI module.
Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN) and its subsidiary PitchBook are joining Google Cloud as launch partners for the preview of Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, with upcoming Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations expected to be available imminently.
The integrations will let eligible Morningstar and PitchBook subscribers access independent public and private market data, research, ratings, and private capital markets intelligence directly inside Gemini Enterprise, enabling source-attributed, AI-grounded investment research workflows for investors and financial professionals.