29th October 2002
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Pekka Lankinen, Portfolio Manager, Equities
Sampo
Group
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"We appreciate mostly the company valuation
models. They are something that others do not have
and thus something that differentiate this service.
We see the models as an essential tool in decision-making.
It saves us considerable amount of time as we get
always-updated models as a starting point of our
own analysis."
"We have used the model also for analysing
unlisted companies. Thereby we of course have to
start the work with empty table i.e. blank model
but it still helps that we have a flexible and easy-to-use
model as a basis instead of Excel-worksheet."
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Sampo
is Finland's first full service financial group.
We offer our retail, corporate and institutional
customers all services relating to banking, insurance
and investment banking operations. We focus especially
on developing competitive services for our customers
who are interested in long-term saving and to whom
we wish to offer expert advice and service solutions
fitting the customers' situation.
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28th October 2002
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Anders Svartbäck, Partner
Fondita Fund Management Company Ltd
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"We have appreciated
the possibility to get all the relevant figures
from almost every listed company in Helsinki Stock
Exchange as tables and illustrative graphs. It is
also very important that the system offers the numbers
fresh, i.e. always updated."
"Also other brokers provide us with numbers
on their web-pages but not so comprehensively and
neatly: e.g. the net sales and ebit figures are
available even in divisional/quarter level - from
all companies in html-format."
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"With our small cap
fund we follow some smaller companies carefully
and thereby we do not always agree with the estimates
provided by the broker. Especially since the brokers
tend to follow the smaller companies with fewer
efforts. Thereby we appeciate very much the unique
possibility to use the valuation models from the
database. With the help of them it is very practical
to test the impact of our own assumptions to the
key figures and valuation of the company. Every
model is in this sence great help even though we
would have a very different opinion about the estimates.
The history is of course always indisputable and
with the history and practical valuation model it
is very easy to build your own valuation scenarios."
"What we are looking
forward to see very much is that we would get also
data from foreign companies. With our Nordic focus
that would be outmost important additional feature
to this already interesting and useful system."
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Helsinki-based Fondita
Fund Management Company Ltd operates independently
of banks, stockbrokers and corporate finance companies.
Our focus is solely investment fund operations.
At Fondita, the interests of the fund's unitholders
come first. We offer expert investment fund management
to individuals as well as societies and corporations.
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Timo Maasilta, Chairman
The Land and Water
Technology Foundation
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25th October 2002
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"This product suits our investment information
needs very well. Company and SectorViews provide
us with a good general outlook of the companies
and sectors we are interested in.
The information is always fresh as estimates are
updated instantly and the system updates the price
information every day. Also the Research Library
section is very useful and easy to use. Generally
speaking the system has improved the transparency
and delivery of the broker research considerably."
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ja vesitekniikan tuki Ry is a foundation whose
mission is to aid and promote both conceptually
and financially the hydrotechnics field, associated
environmental technology, research and education
of soil protection and solving the issues conserning
rural planning and construction.
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