Zacks Research System (ZRS) is an equity research product that integrates Windows(TM) based software with databases containing price, estimate and fundamental data for more than 6,000 companies. ZRS is comprised of several modules, tailored for portfolio managers and equity analysts and designed to provide you with a critical competitive edge. The software's architecture and design, as well as the suggested selection of corresponding databases, helps you shorten the collection and process time for the million pieces of investment information.

Zacks Research System responds to the immediate questions at hand. No one can match the power of ZRS to put the precise investment information you want, organized the way you want to see it, right on your desktop - either on a single-user workstation or as a part of LAN. If you rely on proprietary data and models, it can be seamlessly imported into ZRS. We also provide toll-free support and customized training programs to make sure ZRS works for you. Hundreds of portfolio mangers and equity analysts rely on Zacks and ZRS. It's their choice for high-performance equity research.

Backtesting - Zacks' Backtesting Software is a user friendly, network compatible product, ideal for designing, backtesting, and implementing quantitative equity strategies at both the company and industry levels. It's the only PC-based system that corrects for look ahead, survivor and restatement biases. It enables you to backtest a wide range of estimate revision and EPS surprise models, build industry models and manage time-series data sets. Zacks consultants have tested hundreds of quantitative equity strategies and can help you use Zacks Backtest to best advantage within your own investment process.

Estimate Revision Model - Zacks Indicator - estimate revision and surprise model which predicts the direction and magnitude of future estimate revisions and consequently predicts future relative stock price movements over the one to six month horizon. Zacks Indicator is available as part of ZRS, on disk or via download. Top Indicator stocks have had an annualized return of 35% per year over the last 15 years.

Elaine Garzarelli's Sector Model -- We are proud of being selected by Elaine Garzarelli as the sole distributor of her work to the institutional market. Sector Analysis is published monthly and is based on her proprietary models and sources of information that have produced her legendary market timing track record. The report contains monthly updates on which industries will outperform and where the market is headed, outlining Elaine Garzarelli's position on sectors and the overall market. If any significant events take place between reports, clients are called immediately with that information. In addition, there is a monthly conference call with all subscribers where Elaine provides updates on her work and addresses specific client questions.

Zacks Data All data is collected and maintained directly by us. Consequently we are able to provide an integrated data set for equity money management that is consistently split-adjusted and corrected for name change, tickers changes, CUSIP changes, mergers, acquisitions, spins off and fiscal year changes. Zacks attention to the definition and exclusion of non-recurring items for both EPS estimates and reported EPS results in the most accurate and detailed EPS data available to institutional investors. The daily updates of Sales, Net Income, and the details of EPS are the most timely source of this critical information.