Macrobond, a provider of global economic and financial data and analytics, announced a strategic integration with FactSet, a global digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, to offer its users direct access to FactSet’s extensive equity and ETF datasets within the Macrobond platform.
This collaboration combines Macrobond’s top-down macroeconomic insights with FactSet’s bottom-up company analysis, creating a complementary dataset. This integration is designed to enable clients to seamlessly merge global economic trends with detailed security-level intelligence, fostering an efficient environment for economists, strategists, and analysts to analyze equity data. The aim is to enhance decision-making, leading to smarter investment strategies and more effective risk management.
Macrobond users will now have access to several key FactSet datasets. This includes FactSet Fundamentals, offering over 750 financial statement line items, ratios, and segments for detailed company-level insight and peer comparison. Additionally, FactSet Consensus Estimates provide more than 20 years of forward-looking and historical analyst estimates for over 19,000 active companies across more than 90 countries, with intraday updates.
The integration also encompasses FactSet Equity Prices & Returns, which covers over 180,000 active and inactive securities globally, including equities, ETFs, ADRs, and structured products. Users can also access FactSet Market Aggregates for timely, aggregated country and industry metrics for rapid comparative analysis and trend identification, alongside FactSet ETF Data, which features over 100 unique data points for global ETFs to streamline fund research and portfolio construction.
Stephanie Covert, Chief Executive Officer at Macrobond, stated, “Our mission at Macrobond is to give financial professionals the clarity and confidence to make better decisions. By bringing FactSet’s rich equity data directly into the Macrobond platform, we are breaking down barriers between macro and micro analysis. This integration empowers our clients to uncover deeper insights faster, without the friction of moving between systems. It is another step toward realizing our vision of being the single force of truth for economic and financial intelligence.”
John Costigan, Chief Data Officer at FactSet, commented, “FactSet’s deep, connected data empowers analysts and economists to move beyond observation to actionable insight, transforming how they drive investment strategy with greater speed and conviction.” Macrobond positions itself as providing a comprehensive integrated research platform that supports economists, analysts, and portfolio managers with real-time data and collaborative analytics.
