FactSet is a software company that services various clients, private equity funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, and various financial institutions. FactSet creates data and software solutions for investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial investment decisions. It also is a financial workflow solutions provider that works with quantitative analytics and can be beneficial to anyone in the company.
FactSet intern, Lauren Lyver, who graduated from Sacred Heart University in June 2020, supports Wellington and explains how it falls as a market data provider in the financial ecosystem. Market data allows traders and investors to know the latest price and see historical trends for instruments such as equities, fixed-income products, derivatives, and currencies.
There are different levels and gradients of the workspace station and each station is customizable based on the individual’s needs. In the Development program, there are 5 different sections: FactSet Foundations, Experiential Learning, Consultative Training, Workflow Rotations, and Continuing Education.
· FactSet Foundations works with onboarding, classroom, hands on, and crash-course for FactSet.
· Experiential Learning works with support desk and project work
· Consultative Training works with soft skills, classroom, and workshops
· Workflow Rotations include GBB, IM, analytics, fixed incomes, and sales
· Continuing Education does role-specific, just-in-time, solutions, and workflows
The full video from Tuesday event can be found here: https://shuconnect.sacredheart.edu/videos/factset-2-15-22/
