FactSet Research Systems Inc. provides integrated financial information and
analytical applications for the global investment community. The Company delivers
insight and information to financial investment professionals through its analytics,
service, content, and technology. By integrating comprehensive datasets and
analytics across asset classes with client data, FactSet supports the workflow
of both buy-side and sell-side clients. These professionals include portfolio
managers, wealth managers, research and performance analysts, risk managers,
research professionals, investment bankers, and fixed income professionals.
From streaming real-time data to historical information, including quotes, estimates,
news and commentary, FactSet offers unique and third-party content through desktop,
wireless and off-platform solutions. The Company’s wide application suite
offers tools and resources including company and industry analyses, full screening
tools, portfolio analysis, risk profiles, alpha-testing, portfolio optimization
and research management solutions. The Company’s revenues are derived
from subscriptions to products and services such as workstations, analytics,
enterprise data, research management, and trade execution.
FactSet’s Research business offers a powerful data solution that combines
global coverage, deep history, and unparalleled transparency with thousands
of FactSet-sourced and third-party databases integrated in one flexible platform.
The Research business has a strong focus on growing a number of users and clients
types including investment banking, sell-side research, buy-side research, private
equity, capital markets, investor relations, and media. This Research business
offerings comprise Core Applications, including Universal Screening, Company
& Security Analytics, Industry and Markets, Filings, Ownership, Research,
News and our industry-leading Research Management Solutions (“RMS”).
Portfolio Management and Trading Solutions
FactSet’s Portfolio Management and Trading (“PMT”) solutions
focus on workflows that are specific and unique for the front office. This includes
offering a multi-asset execution management system (“EMS”) platform
as well as compliance and order management functionality. These products are
aimed at large asset managers, hedge funds and mid-market customers and combine
automation and intelligent trading workflows. With a focus on serving traders
and portfolio managers, we will continue our growth in this market segment.
Analytics Solutions
FactSet’s Analytics business addresses workflows around risk, performance
and reporting. FactSet’s Analytics business has been one of our strongest
growth drivers. Investment professionals want to focus on producing results.
They need in-depth insight, powerful analytics, and comprehensive datasets integrated
seamlessly with their portfolios. FactSet Portfolio Analysis (“PA”)
is a multi-asset class, global solution that helps investment professionals
spend more time discovering alpha. PA is an interactive tool that helps users
make smarter decisions with a flexible, multi-tile interface of reports and
charts. FactSet’s Multi-Asset Class (“MAC”) risk model helps
users understand risk factors across different asset types and classes. Additionally,
the Company has enhanced its offering with client-requested functionality such
as fixed income optimization and the Duration Times Spread (“DTS”)
attribution model.
Wealth Solutions
FactSet’s Wealth business creates solutions that are specific and unique
for the wealth management industry and help with investment portfolio management,
advisory services, financial planning and other financial services. FactSet’s
medium to long-term investment themes in the wealth business will aim to achieve
market-leading positions or differentiate offerings by providing end to end
solutions, focusing on non-equity content and single security analytics, portfolio
and risk analytics and digital strategy.
Content and Technology Solutions
FactSet’s CTS business is focused on delivering value to its clients
in the way they want to consume it. CTS offerings include delivery of content
and analytics from the FactSet platform, as well as giving clients direct access
to insight and information outside of the workstation through cloud-based application
program interfaces (“APIs”) and white label solutions.
FactSet Clients
Buy-side
FactSet is focused on understanding the buy-side workflow across all firm types
and user types. These clients include portfolio managers, analysts, traders,
wealth managers, performance teams and risk and compliance teams at a variety
of firms, such as traditional asset managers, wealth advisors, hedge funds,
insurance companies, plan sponsors and fund of funds.
As buy-side clients continues to shift towards multi-asset class investment
strategies, FactSet is well positioned to be a partner in the space, given its
ability to provide solutions across their entire workflow. Through its workstation,
powerful analytics, unique content like FactSet’s Geographic Revenue data,
data feeds and portfolio services, FactSet is able to provide solutions across
asset classes and at nearly every stage of the investment process.
Sell-side
FactSet is a market leader on the sell-side and is continuing to expand beyond
investment banking into various other parts of banking institutions. The Company
anticipates that future growth may come from the breadth of solutions FactSet
provides to the sell-side across analytics, content and technology.
FactSet has historically focused on selling workstations to banks. Over the
last few years, its emphasis has shifted to focus on selling more differentiated
product offerings outside the workstation including StreetAccount, and RMS.
FactSet is also expanding its banking user base outside investment banking to
commercial banking, research, quant groups, compliance and regulatory divisions
and sales and trading teams.
Talent
Since its founding, FactSet has built a collaborative culture that recognizes
and rewards innovation and offers employees a variety of opportunities and experiences.
FactSet’s employees are critical to its success and the reason FactSet
continues to execute at a high level. FactSet’s focus on engaging and
enabling employees to do their best work, is central to FactSet’s ability
to deliver the best insight and information to clients globally.