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Outside Directors

Scott A. Billeadeau

Director

Mr. Billeadeau, age 44, joined Fifth Third Asset Management ("Fifth Third") in March of 2003 with the combination of Paladin Investment Associates, LLC ("Paladin") with Fifth Third. He is the Director of small-cap and mid-cap growth strategies and is responsible for managing nearly $1 billion in assets. Prior to joining Fifth Third, he was a Principal, Founder and Senior Portfolio Manager with Paladin. Paladin was founded via a management buyout of Investment Advisors, Inc. in 2000. Prior to co-founding Paladin, Mr. Billeadeau managed all the small-cap and mid-cap assets for TradeStreet Investment Associates, the investment management subsidiary of Bank of America. Mr. Billeadeau began his career in 1985 with American Express Financial Advisers, previously IDS Financial Services, Inc., where he was a quantitative analyst. Mr. Billeadeau received a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and is a CFA charterholder. Mr. Billeadeau is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and has served on the Board since January 2001. He was also the Lead Independent Director and a member of the Compensation Committee until September 19, 2005. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2006.

Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Joseph E. Laird, Jr.

Director

Mr. Laird, age 60, serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Laird Squared LLC, an investment banking company that he formed in January 1999, exclusively to serve the database information services industry. From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Laird was a Managing Director of Veronis, Suhler & Associates, a leading specialty merchant bank that serves the media and information industries. From 1982 to 1989, he was an institutional equity salesman and a senior securities analyst of database information services for Hambrecht & Quist. From 1975 to 1982, Mr. Laird was an institutional equity salesman and investment strategist for PaineWebber Mitchell Hutchins. Mr. Laird is also a director of The Advisory Board Company, which specializes in best practices research and analysis related to the management of companies in the health care industry. Mr. Laird is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee, a member of the Audit Committee and has served on the Board since 1993. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2007.

Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee

Holdings: 11,500 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
01-02-08	Option Execute	11,500	6.26
07-06-06	Sell	2,000	46.70
07-06-06	Option Execute	2,000	6.26
01-18-05	Sell	1,500	56.00
10-09-02	Sell	2,500	22.98
10-03-02	Option Execute	2,500	9.40
10-02-02	Sell	2,000	26.47
09-25-02	Option Execute	2,000	9.40
09-24-02	Sell	2,000	25.35
09-24-02	Option Execute	2,000	9.40

James J. McGonigle

Lead Independent Director

Mr. McGonigle, age 42, serves as a director and Chairman of the Board of The Corporate Executive Board Company, which specializes in providing to corporations best practices research and analysis focusing on corporate strategy, operations and general management issues. Mr. McGonigle has served as Chairman of the Board of The Corporate Executive Board Company since March 2001. From 1998 to March 2001, Mr. McGonigle served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of The Corporate Executive Board Company. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. McGonigle served as the General Manager of the corporate division of The Advisory Board Company. Mr. McGonigle was a consultant in the Financial Institutions Group at McKinsey & Company from 1990 to 1995. Mr. McGonigle received a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. McGonigle has served on the Board since May 2002 and is the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of the Compensation Committee. On September 19, 2005, Mr. McGonigle was named the Lead Independent Director. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2007.

Member of the Compensation Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Holdings: 3,000 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
03-28-05	Buy	3,000	32.50

Walter F. Siebecker

Director

Mr. Siebecker, age 64, serves as President of Burgess Consulting LLC. Mr. Siebecker was a managing director of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation ("DTC"). He joined the National Securities Clearing Corporation ("NSCC"), a subsidiary of DTC, in 1996 as a Managing Director in charge of the organization's Annuity Processing Service. Mr. Siebecker's background is in retail and institutional investment services in the domestic and global markets. Prior to joining NSCC, Mr. Siebecker was a consultant to the Trading Services Division at Lehman Brothers and spent 16 years at Salomon Smith Barney Inc., where he was responsible for the Operations Division as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. Mr. Siebecker is a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and has served on the Board since November 1997. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2008.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee

Holdings: 13,010 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
10-08-02	Buy	2,000	22.79 - 22.83

Charles J. Snyder

Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director

Mr. Snyder, age 63, a co-founder of FactSet in 1978, retired as President and Chief Technology Officer of the Company on August 31, 1999. At that time he became Vice Chairman of the Board and agreed to continue as a consultant to FactSet's engineering and technology groups. In conjunction with FactSet's announcement of Howard Wille's retirement as Chief Executive Officer of FactSet effective May 22, 2000, Mr. Snyder was named our interim Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Snyder acted as interim Chief Executive Officer of FactSet until September 5, 2000, at which time Philip A. Hadley was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. From 1964 to 1977, Mr. Snyder worked for Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan, Inc., eventually becoming Director of Computer Research, a position he retained with Shearson Hayden Stone, Inc. after its acquisition of Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan, Inc. in 1977. Mr. Snyder has been a Director of FactSet since its formation in 1978. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2007.

Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Holdings: 2,988,510 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
06-23-08	Disposition (Non Open Market)	154,000	63.13
07-10-07	Sell	800,000	63.72
03-26-07	Disposition (Non Open Market)	206,700	n/a
06-26-06	Sell	1,000,000	44.25
03-29-06	Disposition (Non Open Market)	82,000	n/a
10-07-05	Sell	31,713	34.05
10-06-05	Sell	15,000	35.35
10-05-05	Sell	10,000	35.55
10-04-05	Sell	10,000	35.02
10-03-05	Sell	10,000	35.06
09-30-05	Sell	10,000	33.18
09-29-05	Sell	10,000	35.00 - 35.05
09-28-05	Sell	7,100	34.15
09-27-05	Sell	17,800	35.01
09-26-05	Disposition (Non Open Market)	4,200	36.52
09-23-05	Disposition (Non Open Market)	37,900	35.63
08-12-05	Sell	10,000	34.40
08-10-05	Sell	10,000	34.40
08-09-05	Sell	37,000	34.20
03-30-05	Disposition (Non Open Market)	304,200	n/a
03-23-04	Private Sell	1,000,000	38.12
02-02-04	Disposition (Non Open Market)	147,100	n/a

Additional Material Relationship
Independent

Joseph R. Zimmel

Director

Elected 2007

Mr. Zimmel, age 53, is a private investor and a retired Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. From December 2001 until November 2002, Mr. Zimmel served as an Advisory Director to the Goldman Sachs Group. In the investment banking division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Mr. Zimmel held the position of Managing Director of the Communications, Media & Entertainment Group for the Americas from 1999 to 2001, after acting as a Managing Director and a co-head of the group from 1992 to 1999.

Mr. Zimmel holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Georgetown University. In addition to his appointment to FactSet's Board of Directors, Mr. Zimmel currently serves as a member of the board of directors of CenturyTel, Inc. He has also served on the board of directors of Digitas Inc.

Holdings: 0 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
02-13-07	Statement of Ownership	0	n/a

Inside Directors

Philip A. Hadley

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Hadley, age 43, was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FactSet on September 5, 2000. Mr. Hadley joined FactSet in 1985 as a Consultant. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Hadley was our Vice President, Sales. From 1989 to 2000, Mr. Hadley was Senior Vice President and Director of Sales and Marketing with FactSet. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hadley was employed by Cargill Corporation. Mr. Hadley received a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Iowa and is a CFA charterholder. Mr. Hadley has served on the Board since September 2000. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2006.

Holdings: 993,437 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
01-04-08	Option Execute	14,250	6.67
12-21-07	Option Execute	7,500	14.97
12-23-05	Option Execute	8,860	41.64
10-11-04	Sell	50,000	50.25 - 50.43
02-25-03	Option Execute	4,000	10.00

Michael F. DiChristina

President, Chief Operating Officer and Director

Mr. DiChristina joined FactSet in 1986 as a Software Engineer and held the position of Director of Software Engineering from 1990 to 1999. Prior to joining FactSet, Mr. DiChristina was a Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley & Co. Mr. DiChristina received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. DiChristina has served on the Board since March 2000. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2008.

Holdings: 125,979 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
10-01-07	Sell	100,000	68.45
10-01-07	Option Execute	100,000	22.83 - 23.08
04-03-07	Sell	58,831	62.99
04-03-07	Option Execute	58,831	12.94 - 23.08
07-05-06	Sell	58,750	46.58 - 46.85
07-05-06	Option Execute	33,750	6.67
10-07-05	Sell	80,000	34.01
10-06-04	Sell	40,923	50.24 - 50.42
10-06-04	Option Execute	40,923	19.41 - 34.25
03-29-04	Sell	40,900	41.50