FactSet offers hedge fund managers a complete solution for their investment process, including a variety of ways to pursue absolute return, capture alpha, manage risk, generate innovative investment ideas, and conduct in-depth quantitative analysis.

A Single Solution

FactSet’s applications allow you to streamline your research process on one platform. Thanks to a combination of hundreds of databases and powerful analytical tools, your entire team can share information, thereby simplifying your workflow.

Alpha Screening and Multifactor Ranking

FactSet’s applications can help you reduce information overload and focus on the best investment ideas. Track and assess alpha generation, view investment ideas generated by designated brokers, perform multifactor ranking, and share and track ideas from across your firm.

Monte Carlo VaR Analysis

Equity options don’t exhibit normal distribution in their returns. When introduced into an equity-only portfolio, these securities change the distribution of the portfolio’s return. As a result, tracking error and other mean/variance statistics no longer describe the portfolio’s risk. Monte Carlo VaR analysis provides tailored, accurate results.

Real-Time Data, In the Office or On the Road

FactSet's wireless capabilities give you access to mission-critical information wherever, whenever. FactSet Wireless delivers news, quotes, and customized global market and company intelligence in real time to one of your most indispensable out-of-office tools: your handheld device.

Extensive Databases from Leading Suppliers

The databases on FactSet offer a wealth of information to feed into your proprietary models. You can search for alpha in more than 2.2 million international macroeconomic, commodity, and financial time series covering more than 150 countries, as well as more than 100,000 global securities.

Clean, Timely Data

The choice of an accurate database is paramount. FactSet invests huge resources in quality assurance and continuously cross-references its databases to find and correct anomalies.

Unlimited Client Support

Each firm is assigned a Consultant who becomes intimately familiar with its needs and processes. That knowledge enables the Consultant to suggest and build innovative, personal solutions. FactSet client support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.