{"id":1883,"date":"2017-03-21T06:07:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2017-03-21T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:07:07","slug":"factset-acquires-bisam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/2017\/03\/21\/factset-acquires-bisam\/","title":{"rendered":"FactSet Acquires BISAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FactSet has recently purchased BISAM Technologies for $205.2 million from Aquiline Capital Partners and company insiders. \u00a0FactSet is mostly known for portfolio and risk analytics and client reporting\u00a0which will go well with BISAM&#8217;s\u00a0performance measurement support. \u00a0BISAM has more than 160 employees worldwide, and they provide portfolio and attribution, multi-asset risk, GIPS composites management and reporting. \u00a0Officials say, &#8220;Many of the world&#8217;s largest asset managers use BISAM&#8217;s software to evaluate and enhance their investment strategies and better serve their clients.&#8221; \u00a0While this was a good addition to FactSet, they still had to borrow $575 million &#8220;under a new resolving credit facility to fund the transaction and repay existing debt&#8221;. \u00a0FactSet was founded in 1978 and they currently offer\u00a0analytics, services, content, and technology to over 66,000 end-users. \u00a0They are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol &#8216;FDS&#8217;. \u00a0FactSet has\u00a0a market capitalization of $7.12 billion and is located in 43 locations with more than 8,500 individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FactSet has recently purchased BISAM Technologies for $205.2 million from Aquiline Capital Partners and company insiders. \u00a0FactSet is mostly known for portfolio and risk analytics and client reporting\u00a0which will go well with BISAM&#8217;s\u00a0performance measurement support. \u00a0BISAM has more than 160 employees worldwide, and they provide portfolio and attribution, multi-asset risk, GIPS composites management and reporting. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/2017\/03\/21\/factset-acquires-bisam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FactSet Acquires BISAM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"masonwoodsk","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/author\/masonwoodsk\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"FactSet has recently purchased BISAM Technologies for $205.2 million from Aquiline Capital Partners and company insiders. \u00a0FactSet is mostly known for portfolio and risk analytics and client reporting\u00a0which will go well with BISAM&#8217;s\u00a0performance measurement support. \u00a0BISAM has more than 160 employees worldwide, and they provide portfolio and attribution, multi-asset risk, GIPS composites management and reporting.&hellip;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}