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Xuemei Li, Business Librarian, Bronfman Business Library

Published Thursday, May 16th 2013

The Bronfman Business Library would like to announce three products now available to all York students, faculty, and staff: Morningstar Direct, Thomson Reuters Private Equity and Global Financial Database.

Morningstar Direct is a multi-currency research platform that provides performance and holdings analysis of investments. It includes data on closed-end funds, equity ownership, exchange traded funds, hedge funds, market indexes, money market funds, offshore funds, open-end mutual funds, pension/life insurance, stocks and 529 plans. Please ask library staff to log you in the product in Bronfman library.

Thomson One Private Equity (Internet Explorer must be used) The database provides data on IRR, residual value etc for various fund types as well as fund performance by vintage year. Individual funds are not identified. (VentureXpert, the old version of the database, is no longer supported within the SDC Plantinum platform.) Please click  in the upper right corner to Log Out once you have completed your research to allow others to access the database.

Global Financial Database: Global Financial Database aka Global Financial Data primarily provides finance and economics data with a deep historical backfile and coverage of 200 global markets. Note that individual registration is required. To register, click on the link to the database above, select “New Member”, then “Academic”. Only a first name, last name, and email address are required.

If you have any questions or feedback about these resources, please contact Bronfman Business Library at bgref@yorku.ca