FactSet Research Systems Inc

FactSet Research Systems Inc. provides financial and economic information on various companies, analytical applications, and client services to the portfolio managers, research and performance analysts, risk managers, marketing professionals, sell-side equity research professionals, investment bankers, and fixed income professionals worldwide. It offers access to financial data and analytics to investment professionals with tools to download, combine, and manipulate financial data for investment analysis. The company's applications provide users access to company analysis, multicompany comparisons, industry analysis, company screening, portfolio analysis, predictive risk measurements, alphatesting, portfolio optimization and simulation, news and quotes, and tools to value and analyze fixed income securities and portfolios. It combines commercial databases, including content regarding companies and securities from various markets into a single online platform of information and analytics. The company's solutions for investment management professionals include analyzing companies, benchmarks, debt instruments, and economic series; researching real-time data; studying portfolio performance for equities and fixed income securities; building quant models and calculating risk; integrating the clients own data, such as portfolio holdings and research notes; creating reports and presentations; and viewing event transcripts and corporate event calendars. Its solutions for investment banking professionals comprise tracking market performance and headlines; researching public and private companies on one platform; auditing financials underlying SEC filings and annual reports; managing relationships and tracking the people that drive each industry; searching prospectuses, SEC filings, and M&A documents; building financial models and presentations; providing access to reports via wireless handheld device. The was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.