NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Zurich, Switzerland, 08/25/2008 - Standard & Poor’s Compustat® has reached an agreement to provide the Swiss Finance Institute with unlimited access to its global market databases, which will allow over 100 Institute researchers unlimited access to market data.

Recognizing that high quality, extensive data sets are an important component in financial education programs, Standard & Poor’s Compustat has reached an agreement to provide the Swiss Finance Institute with unlimited access to its Compustat® North America, Global and ExecuComp® databases. The agreement enables over 100 researchers at the Swiss Finance Institute unlimited access to data corresponding to over 55,000 companies from 110 countries representing 88,000 securities.

Standard & Poor’s maintains the Compustat databases to the highest standards in data quality, incorporating thousands of quality and validity checks throughout the data collection and database production processes. “Empirical research is only as good as the data on which it is based,” explained Swiss Finance Institute Director Jean-Pierre Danthine. “For our finance researchers here in Switzerland, this high quality global data is a fundamental tool.”

With a faculty of more than 50 professors and 75 students enrolled in the doctoral program, the Swiss Finance Institute has a significant institutional need for high quality financial information. “The breadth and depth of the Compustat databases enable researchers and financial analysts – whether in academia or investment research firms – to integrate their theories into real world environments. We are pleased to be able to make this important content accessible to the faculty and students of one of Europe’s leading financial research institutions,” said Mitch Abeyta, Managing Director of Standard & Poor’s Compustat.

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