1. Accessing Investext Plus from Darden Michael Vellucci McIntire Investment Institute Fundamental Presentation September 6th, 2005

2. What’s on the plate today… What is Investext? How Investext will help you research? How Darden says you can’t access it How you will access it?

3. What is Investext? Investext is the world's largest full-text database of investment research reports. It contains detailed data and analysis on publicly traded companies in a wide variety of industries. The information is contained in reports generated by analysts at leading research organizations worldwide. These reports are not generally available through public channels. From http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/investextss.html

4. What is Investext? Contd. Sources  Reports written by over 1000 leading analysts at 385 investment firms worldwide including contributors in Asia Pacific, in Europe, and in North America  Moody's Investors' Service Reports File Data  July 1982 to the present  More than 15,865,480 records (7/05)  Updated daily From http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/investextss.html

5. How Investext will help you… Great research store Don’t waste your time sifting through irrelevant reports Can be useful for macro and micro issues from firm to industry Again: reports are usually not avaliable through public channels, ie Yahoo! Finance

6. Interesting Tidbit here… This subscription can only be accessed at UVA's Darden School. Our educational contract restricts the use of this database to currently enrolled Darden students, current faculty and staff.

7. How to access Investext Plus Open browser and go to:  http://intranet.darden.virginia.edu/library

8. Accessing Investext Plus…

11. Almost done… Now click either of these two, they seem to bring you to the same place. The third option seems to take you to a different looking screen/database.

12. Now… You should be familiar with what the Investext database is used for How it will help you research How to access it www.uvamii.com/presentations/fundamentals/fall05/investext.ppt