VARESSENTIALS

providing financial data and information by electronic means; providing portfolio risk assessment data and information on-line through computer and communications networks; providing advice and analysis for professionals in the fields of finance, financial planning, investment and portfolio risk management; providing via computer and communications networks the use of downloadable and nondownloadable computer software for permitting queries and transmitting and receiving information in the fields of finance and investments; providing a website for use by others to create databases and other information management systems