- CEO
- Gi-Tae Lee
- Full Time Employees
- 160
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Address
- Seoul South Korea
- IPO Date
- Jul 1, 2013
- Business
- FnGuide, Inc. is a South Korea-based provider of financial information, investment analytics, index calculation, and market data solutions primarily serving institutional investors, securities firms, asset management companies, financial institutions, corporations, and individual market participants. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, the company operates predominantly in the domestic market while continuously expanding its global index and data coverage. The company provides a comprehensive ecosystem of proprietary platforms and specialized financial services, including DataGuide, an MS Excel-based data retrieval and financial modeling workstation delivering comprehensive historical corporate financials, K-IFRS accounting metrics, macroeconomic indicators, and market pricing; QuantiWise, a quantitative investment analysis and screening platform featuring valuation models, factor analysis, backtesting, and portfolio construction tools; WiseReport, a centralized equity research aggregation platform distributing sell-side analyst reports and standardized consensus earnings estimates; FnGuide.com, an online corporate and financial intelligence portal; Retamin, a mobile platform providing real-time corporate disclosures, equity research, and financial news; FnIndex, an index governance and calculation business developing benchmark, thematic, factor, and customized equity and fixed-income indices used for exchange-traded funds and structured products; Fund Evaluation Services, delivering fund ratings, performance attribution, classification schemes, and risk assessment metrics; and Enterprise Solutions, supplying raw market data feeds, application programming interfaces, application service provider services, and system integration for risk and asset management infrastructure. In recent developments, FnGuide established a strategic partnership and joint venture with global index provider Indxx to develop and license international exchange-traded product indices for the South Korean market; advanced its product suite through the integration of artificial intelligence and natural language processing for automated financial sentiment analysis and global market data services; adopted capital allocation and shareholder return enhancements aligned with South Korea's Corporate Value-up Program, including treasury share cancellations; and leveraged the significant expansion of South Korea's active exchange-traded fund industry to drive record growth in its core indexing and analytics divisions following management and ownership restructuring under Hwacheon Group.