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Search Tool

Search Tool section of LSEG provides the following data:

  • Search — A general cross‑asset search layer that spans LSEG’s entire instrument universe—equities, bonds, derivatives, funds, indices, FX, commodities, private companies, and more—using both structured fields (name, issuer, identifiers, asset class, currency, venue) and natural‑language queries. Under the hood it is indexing LSEG’s reference and pricing databases (e.g., DataScope, RIC universe, company/fund master data) so you can discover instruments and entities and then pull their detailed data.
  • Bonds — A specialized search on LSEG’s fixed‑income pricing and reference database: 1) Instrument‑level fields such as issuer, seniority, coupon type, maturity, call/put features, currency, market, ratings, and index membership. 2) Linked pricing and analytics, including evaluated prices for millions of bonds daily, yield and spread measures, curves, and in some cases intraday quotes (e.g., via BondCliQ for US corporates).
  • M&A — A search interface on LSEG’s M&A and corporate‑transactions database: 1)Deal‑level fields (acquirer/target, announced/completed dates, deal value, consideration mix, stake purchased, deal status, advisors, and financing). 2) Filters for sector, geography, transaction type (takeover, merger, LBO, minority stake, asset deal, etc.), and size bands, with links to associated news, filings, and post‑deal performance.
  • Private Equity/VC — This searches LSEG’s private‑equity and venture‑capital deals and firm/fund database: 1) Profiles of 43,000+ PE/VC firms, 91,000+ funds, and hundreds of thousands of portfolio companies, with fundraising, investment, and exit events dating back to the 1970s. 2) Deal terms (round type, valuation, stake, co‑investors), sector and geography tags, and relationships between GPs, LPs, and portfolio companies.
  • Private Equity Benchmarking — A benchmarking layer that uses private‑market performance and index data: 1) Private‑fund benchmarks and deal‑level benchmarks for PE/VC strategies, often in partnership with providers like Nasdaq eVestment and FTSE StepStone Global Private Market Indices. 2) Compares portfolio or prospective funds against peer groups by vintage, strategy, region, size, and other dimensions, using IRR, TVPI, DPI and similar metrics.
  • Funds — Searches the Lipper fund and collective‑investment database: 1) Over 330k–360k share classes covering mutual funds, ETFs, closed‑end funds, investment trusts, pension and insurance products across 80+ markets. 2) Fields for domicile, classification (Lipper’s detailed scheme), fees and expenses, benchmark, performance, flows, risk measures, and ESG attributes where available.
  • RIC Rules — A reference tool for RIC (Reuters Instrument Code) symbology, describing how codes are constructed and mapped across asset classes, venues, and instrument types. This supports consistent use of LSEG instruments in APIs and data feeds by clarifying naming conventions, suffixes, and cross‑references to other identifiers (ISIN, ticker, etc.).