Trading Floor Software
Lab Software available in the Tozzi Electronic Business and Finance Center – R0400
FactSet
FactSet combines data from a number of databases and places into a single information system. The broad data library offers information on financial, market, and economic information, including fundamental data on tens of thousands of companies and securities worldwide. Clients can manipulate and analyze data in an infinite variety of formats, they can create custom reports, perform stock screens through Universal Screening, and even back-test financial variables historically. Factset is a premier software solution for equity and quant research.
Bloomberg
“A massive data stream, unparalleled in scope and depth, delivered to your desktop in real time. Along with data, the Bloomberg Professional® provides access to all the news, analytics, communications, charts, liquidity, functionalities and execution services that you need to put knowledge into action. Once you have access to our rich content, you can build a customized View of the markets using Launchpad, our real-time platform for news, security monitors, charting and more.”
RIT Market Simulator
https://inside.rotman.utoronto.ca/financelab/rit/
“The RIT simulation-based-learning product includes the RIT Market Simulator (an order-matching platform which allows users to transact financial securities with each other on a real-time basis) plus a sequence of RIT Decision Cases which focus on specific decision tasks associated with financial securities, market dynamics, and investment or risk management strategies.”
“Depending on the RIT case, students are required to fulfil many different roles, for example, hedgers, arbitrageurs, speculators, analysts, etc. The RIT cases offer the possibility to simulate both buy-side and sell-side professional roles, such as, agency trading, liability trading, algorithmic trading, fixed income trading, equity valuation, M&A, commodities trading, hedging and speculating using futures and options, volatility trading, portfolio management, risk management, etc.”
Equity Insights (AFGView)
http://www.economicmargin.com/
“The Applied Finance Group (AFG) helps institutional investment, consulting and corporate firms globally in accurately measuring corporate performance and identifying mispriced equities. AFG developed its proprietary framework, Economic Margin, to correct distortions created by traditional accounting-based analysis. The Economic Margin Framework is more than just a performance metric, as it encompasses a valuation system that explicitly addresses the four main value drivers of enterprise value: profitability, competition, growth, and cost of capital. Unlike traditional valuation approaches that utilize highly sensitive perpetuity assumptions, AFG’s approach incorporates company specific competitive advantage periods which identify companies that may lose excess returns over time faster than their competitors”
Barra Portfolio Manager
https://www.msci.com/our-solutions/analytics/portfolio-management
BARRA Portfolio Manager is an industry-leading equity risk management software package that enables portfolio managers, analysts, researchers and traders to achieve a competitive edge in managing equity securities and derivatives. Its Portfolio Manager can help construct and optimize equity portfolios, while factoring in risk, return, and transaction costs.
upTick
“upTick is financial-simulation software developed at the Harvard Business School. It enables students to learn fundamental finance concepts through actual decision-making under real world conditions. That is, instead of merely reading about these concepts in a textbook or hearing about them in a lecture, students participate in their derivation and experience them for themselves using a simulated marketplace that mirrors actual historical events.”
Argus
https://www.altusgroup.com/solutions/argus-enterprise/
“ARGUS Enterprise is a comprehensive software solution for commercial property valuation, cash flow forecasting, and asset management. It provides deep insights into asset and portfolio performance, enabling informed decision-making.”
CoStar
“CoStar is the largest source of verified commercial real estate information, analytics & data-driven news worldwide. For more than 38 years, CoStar has provided an industry-leading commercial real estate information, analytics and news platform that delivers unparalleled insights to commercial real estate professionals and other industries – helping them make informed decisions more quickly”
