State of the Art Finance Lab

To prepare students for a career in finance, the Cutler Center provides access to state-of-the-art information resources and educational opportunities in and outside of the classroom.

The center is in constant use by undergraduate students conducting financial analyses for class projects, graduate students examining mergers and acquisitions, and faculty monitoring market activity in preparation for class presentations. Babson College Fund students utilize the center’s resources to manage their investment portfolio, conduct risk analysis and write investment research reports. The center is open to all students. It is a highly utilized space for students preparing for careers in finance.

Finance Lab Resources

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The Cutler Center provides research and data sources for student and faculty use—some are available at the center, while others are accessible through a secure internet connection.

​ARGUS Commercial Real Estate 
ARGUS models all aspects of the real estate life cycle—from initial acquisition, through development, to lease up, and disposition.

​Bloomberg 
Integrates data, news, multimedia reports, and portfolio analytics into a single platform.

​Capital IQ 
Provides information on public and private companies and professionals worldwide. Used for complex financial statement analysis, comparable analysis, financial modeling, sector analysis, and charting.

​ESG Manager (formerly KLD Socrates)
Monitors the social records for 3,000 publicly traded U.S. and international companies.

​eVestment
A data, analytics, and research platform serving the global institutional community.

​Factiva 
Covers more than 8,000 of the world’s leading business and news publications, including Dow Jones publications, The Wall Street Journal & Barron’s, and Reuters Business Briefings.

​Factset 
Creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial investment decisions.

​Global Insight DataInsight Web 
Economic and financial time series data from the IMF, DRI, OECD, US. Comprehensive Web version and subset of data files in WRDS.

​Mergent
Leading provider of business and financial information on public and private companies globally to provide several online/print solutions.

​Morningstar 
Provides information on 6,000+ stocks, 20,000 mutual funds and 150+ Exchange Traded Funds. In addition, it provides stock screening functions and portfolio analysis tools.

​Rotman Interactive Trader 
Stock exchange simulator software, designed so users can transact financial securities with other users on a real-time basis, while learning about order-driven markets, liquidity, the impact of trading costs, and price discovery.

​Thomson Deals 
Provides M&A and corporate transactions data.

​Thomson One Banker 
Provides access to company overviews and financials, stock quotes, earnings estimates, SEC filings, ownership information, and investment analyst reports.

​Value Line 
Provides online access to stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities, and special situation stocks reports.

​VentureXpert 
Source covering venture, buyouts, private equity funds, firms, executives, portfolio companies and limited partners around the world.

​Wall Street Prep
The trusted training provider for the world’s top investment banks, private equity firms, Fortune 1000 companies, and business schools.

​WRDS 
Warehouse of financial, accounting, banking, economics, management, and marketing data accessible through a single web-based interface from the following providers: Compustat, CRSP, TAQ, Global Insight and ExecuComp.