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Bloomberg is a platform that provides real-time financial market data, including price quotes, news, and analytics, with a unique system interface. Users are welcome to browse the Bloomberg help document above for more information on BMC (Bloomberg Market Concepts) and Support.
FactSet 🔒 ☁
Includes full text or abstracts from more than 400 journals covering accounting subjects.
WRDS 🔒☁
Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a comprehensive web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources. Building on the strengths of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and with other academic clients, WRDS has become an indispensable tool for academic research at the nation’s leading business schools.
Produced by Standard & Poor’s, Capital IQ is a web and Excel-based software that provides valuable financial research data on fundamental analysis, financial modelling, and market analysis. Capital IQ is widely used in the financial industry by financial professionals, investors, and analysts to gather and analyze financial data and perform investment research, equity analysis, credit analysis, due diligence, and other financial-related tasks.
Morningstar Direct is a web-based research platform ideal for developing, selecting, and monitoring investments, including Open End Funds, Separate Accounts, Exchange-Traded Funds, Stocks, Variable Annuity Products,
Datastream is a historical financial database with over 35 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including 8.5 million active economic indicators. It features 120 years of data across 175 countries – the information and tools you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles, and the impact of world events.
Collection of databases maintained by Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the U of T, including CANSIM I and II, Canadian Census and Trade Analyzer.
Audit Analytics
Audit Analytics is an innovative on-line public company intelligence service available from the Ives Group Inc, a leading independent research provider focused on the accounting, insurance, regulatory, legal and investment communities.
EMIS- Emerging Market Information Service
EMIS delivers news, company and financial data direct from more than 80 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Fama-French Portfolios and Factors
Fundata Mutual Fund Database MF
Extensive historical stock data, exchange rates (CAN-US from 1800 – present), and more. Requires registration, make sure to select Academic under New Member Accounts to access the Global Financial database as well as the US Stocks subscription.
Investext
Provides forecasts and analysis based upon research reports from over 980 firms, and covering more than 30,000 companies worldwide.
Investext-Mergent
Analyst reports for companies and industries from more than 600 investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms worldwide. Locate recent reports quickly by: Entering the company name in the “Company Search” box
Markit Securities Finance Analytics
Moody’s ESG Solutions Group is a business of Moody’s Corporation serving the growing global demand for ESG and climate insights.
Nielsen provides rich data and provides academic researchers from a range of disciplines with new opportunities to explore the dynamics of purchasing behaviour across the United States. The size, scope, breadth, and longitudinal time frame of these data make them unique. They cover a wide range of products, categories, retail channels, stores, and geographic markets in the United States.
Passport GMID
International coverage of more than 20 industries, with focus on consumer products and services. Reports updated annually.
Track funding, investors, and more. You must register with your Rotman or U of T email address to register. For academic use only – accelerators must use their own subscriptions.
Using over 40,000 sources, RavenPack provides real-time news analytics, including sentiment analysis and event data focused on business and financial applications. Data includes news and social media content, allowing for comprehensive analysis of financial markets.
Mapping tool that generates business lists and includes demographic data. Does not include brand specific data, but includes e-commerce information by industry or occasionally product type.
Statistics Canada’s Socioeconomic Time Series Data
Statistics Canada’s Socioeconomic Time Series Data (formerly CANSIM) is Statistics Canada’s key socioeconomic database. Updated daily, CANSIM provides fast and easy access to a large range of the latest statistics available in Canada. CANSIM comprises over 40 million time series and thousands of tables.
Survey Documentation and Analysis
CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection
Includes the CPA Canada Guidance collection, federal income tax materials including the Income Tax Act and court cases, as well as Excise and GST/HST materials.
eMarketer is a market research resource for digital marketing, social media, advertising, and e-commerce. It includes reports, benchmarks, articles, demographics and country information.
EIU reports
From the Economist Intelligence Unit, country reports are updated monthly and country profiles are updated annually. Coverage of almost 200 countries.
Frost & Sullivan provides access to international industry-specific reports including healthcare, tech, telecom, etc. Includes AI and machine learning reports.
Gartner, Inc. is an American technological research and consulting firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, that conducts research on technology and shares this research both through private consulting as well as executive programs and conferences.
Comprehensive industry reports. U of T access includes the growing Canadian collection, extensive U.S. collection, and global reports. Find reports by collection, search by keyword or browsing.
Provides forecasts and analysis based upon research reports from over 980 firms, and covering more than 30,000 companies worldwide.
MarketResearch.com Academic
Market research reports from Icon Group International, MarketLooks, Kalorama Information Packaged Facts and Specialists in Business Information.
Includes several historical collections, Moody’s Manuals (going back to 1920), Annual Reports Historical Collection (global coverage as far back as 1900), D&B’s Million Dollar Directory Index (1959-2016).
OECD iLibrary
Publications of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development including books, periodicals and statistics.
Statista
Statista is a German online platform specialized in data gathering and visualization, which offers statistics and reports, market insights, and consumer insights.
Business Source Premier
Journal articles, industry and company reports including SWOT analysis. Includes most top academic journals in business, and full text for more than 2,300 journals, dating back to 1965. Also includes MarketLine reports.
Factiva
Content from more than 10,000 publications from around the globe.
ProQuest
With more than 11,000 titles, ProQuest is an interdisciplinary journal and newspaper database that is international in scope. Also contains Hoover’s reports.
Risk.net
Risk magazine provides news and analysis covering the financial industry, with a particular focus on risk management, derivatives and complex finance. It includes articles and papers on credit risk, market risk, risk systems, swap option pricing, derivatives risk and pricing, regulation and asset management.
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.
RPM has been designed with ease of implementation in mind. Professors can register and have their students trading within minutes! Registering a class is free and accounts can be purchased and distributed in different ways to maximize flexibility.