Global Portfolio Analysis Center (G-PACT)

Pace University
Lubin School of Business
1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY
Director: P.V. Viswanath

P.V. Viswanath

The Global Portfolio Analysis Center (G-PACT), is located in Room W404 in the West Wing of the Pace New York Campus. For more information about the G-PACT, please contact P.V. Viswanath at 212-346-1817, or e-mail him at pviswanath@pace.edu.

The G-PACT Room (also known as the Trading Room) contains 30 PCs (Dell Optiplexs GX260 - 512mb Ram, CDR, network accessible). These are equipped with StockVal and other analytical software. They are linked to the Internet through the common Pace University proxy server, and run on a 10 mbps Ethernet LAN. There is also a Trans-Lux 64 character LED Jet and a 12 lines x 32 Character Datawall for up-to-date Stock and News Information.

Resources of the G-PACT room include:

Hands-on trading environment
Simulated market trading tools
Bloomberg Professional Service
The StockVal Analytic Trading System
Wharton Research Data Services
Compustat and Crisp Databases
AuditAnalytics
The First Call Historical Database
Telerate Ticker
Electronic news boards

Four of the PCs are stations dedicated to Reuter's Moneyline Telerate Webstation. Click for more information about finance related software available at the Lubin School, both through G-PACT and through other avenues.

“Having gone through simulations at the lab, our students appreciate how market participants without a clearly formulated strategy can be left behind by ruthlessly efficient financial markets. It's a big advantage our students will have when they graduate. ” - Padma Kadiyala, Assistant Professor of Finance

Your Comments:
Is there something else you would like to see on this page? Is there any other information you would like? Other services you would like to see in the Global Portfolio Analysis Center Room (G-PACT Room)? Please write me at pviswanath@pace.edu.

G-PACT director P.V. Viswanath teaching in the G-PACT

30 PCs are equipped with StockVal and other analytical software.