Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), the global asset manager, has signed a three-year deal with Multex.com, a provider of analysts' research and web-hosting, in which Multex will build and host a comprehensive investment research facility.

Multex will tie together SWIP internal research with external broker research and integrate data feeds, including Multex's global detailed earnings estimate data, market data, news and charts, into one investment research product.