WRDS in Partnership with Zacks Investment Research

The Wharton School's Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) has entered into a partnership with Zacks Investment Research, Inc.

WRDS is the leading comprehensive, internet-based data research service. It provides instant access to over 200 terabytes of data across Finance, Marketing, and Economic disciplines. It is the gold standard in business intelligence and is a tool used by 30,000 users in 30 countries.

Zacks Investment Research provides a database of warnings, sales estimates, analyst ratings, price targets and recommendations that help the global financial community construct consensus forecasts earning surprises and analyst track records.

The Wharton press release that announced the partnership provided a quote from the Senior Director of WRDS, Robert Zarazowski. "The Zacks database offers academic and empirical business researchers the ability to analyze historic patterns in analyst behavior and see connections between their actions, a company’s performance and the market as a whole. It’s an important addition WRDS’ already extensive data offerings.”

Started in 1993, WRDS' comprehensive internet-based data research service is used by corporate firms, non-profit institutions, government and academic firms. The Wharton School is the business school at the University of Pennsylvania. Zacks Investment Research is based in Chicago, Ill. and has been the leading provider of research, market data, and quantitative models to institutional investment management firms in the US and Canada for over 30 years.

Dan Zwirn attended the Wharton School from 1989-1993 as part of a dual degree from Wharton and the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. He received a B.S. in economics and a B.A.S. in computer science.