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Institutional Execution Group
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Research Products
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With powerful partnerships, the Institutional Execution Group gives you the flexibility to choose the research vendor that best meets your institution’s needs. Our goal is enable you to leverage your research commission dollar, while reducing “market noise” by efficiently filtering the volumes of data in the marketplace.
We offer competitive multiples, flexible pricing structures, state-of-the-art reporting and compliance guidance. In addition to these services, we will provide any research service through our Soft Dollar Program that qualifies under Section 28(e) and is available through third-party billing arrangements.
Our Research Services Vendors include:
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Capital IQ |
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Capital IQ is a web-based research platform that uniquely combines deep fundamental and market data with robust tools for financial modeling, screening, charting, and sourcing industry contacts. Over 1,200 leading firms, including some of most successful equity and fixed income managers, use Capital IQ to acquire better information, generate more ideas, and drastically reduce the time necessary to fully analyze potential investments. To learn more about Capital IQ, please visit www.capitaliq.com.
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Coleman Research Group |
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A HIGHER STANDARD OF INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
Quality, value and trust form the bedrock of Coleman Research Group’s commitment to primary research.
Through CRG’s proprietary Knowledge Broker technology, rigorous compliance practices, and elite members of our Executive Forum, we connect institutional investors with leading industry professionals for highly targeted consultations.
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Governancemetrics |
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The benefits of using GMI’s respected and independent service include portfolio risk reduction and client acquisition and compliance.
Product Description - GovernanceMetrics International for Stock and Bond Analysis (Web Delivered Service):
Analysts have endless tools to compare companies on financial data, but almost no ability to scientifically compare qualitative factors that affect risk and return. GMI quantifies each company's "operating environment" and whether there is full disclosure with managerial checks/balances/incentives -- or conflicts of interest that could lead to melt downs. Corporate behavior, takeover provisions, etc., are also rated and compared to other companies in GMI's universe. Recent scandals plus overwhelming research supporting the out-performance of well governed companies will continue the trend for valuation to be affected by governance quality. GMI features its depth (scoring algorithm with hundreds of metrics) plus a written report on the governance quality/risk of each rated company. Advantages include the fact that GMI does not solicit consulting contracts, pension proxy voting arrangements or other conflicting business from rated companies that could influence scoring. GMI Product: GMI's data feed of scores and written reports are broken down into six governance categories: Board Accountability, Financial Disclosure, Shareholder Rights, Executive Compensation, Takeover Defenses, and Environmental/Social/Regulatory problems. Major governance issues are updated daily on the web site or "red flagged" as special alerts. US/Canadian, Asian and Euro companies are available separately.
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Neovest |
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Neovest is a comprehensive, broker-neutral trading platform that integrates direct market access, advanced execution and order management, real-time market data, and advanced analytics in a user-friendly, robust application. Neovest encompasses equities, options, and futures trading and allows traders to electronically route their orders to all the major ECNs, exchanges, crossing networks, and brokers (including upstairs traders, floor brokers, and broker algorithmic products).
Neovest clients are primarily hedge funds, money managers, and broker/dealers. Neovest is uniquely positioned as a truly broker-neutral system, and offers all of the advanced order types provided by ECNs (i.e. pegging, discretion, reserve) as well as providing customizable order slicing algorithms to minimize market impact. Neovest is the only direct market access system that offers a comprehensive set of front-end analytics that includes advanced montage, charting, over 300 pre-defined filters, reverse filtering, news, and alerts in a tightly integrated environment for maximum speed and trading efficiency.
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Portfolio Science |
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The RiskAPI add-in, in use by several funds both in North America and Europe, is a unique software component that allows users to access powerful, managed risk calculation resources from within the Excel environment. RiskAPI makes available sophisticated portfolio risk management via a full range of analysis tools and remote calculation features. With one simple addition, portfolio managers can achieve an instant, out-of-the box risk management solution that works with their existing spreadsheets. The architecture of the RiskAPI system allows funds to avoid expensive data integration and the need to learn complicated and costly third party software.
The RiskAPI Add-In: a powerful and easy to use system that offers comprehensive exposure analysis at an affordable cost unmatched by any service in the industry.
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Revere Data |
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Revere provides finance and business professionals with superior data and analytics on U.S. public companies based on precise classification and identification of key business relationships.
- Revere HierarchyTM, a patented classification system that provides unmatched detail in specifying a company’s business activities and identifying exact competitors
- Revere RelationshipsTM, a database mapping a company to its key competitors, customers, suppliers, and strategic partners
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Rich Advisory Group |
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Christopher J. Rich, Principal and Manager of Rich Advisory Group, has 20+ years of experience in the option and derivatives industry specializing in strategic option position construction, option trading, risk management, hedging strategy development, arbitrage and execution services.
He started Rich Advisory Group in 2002 and has produced daily and quantitative volatility research for the hedge fund and option prop trade community for over 2 years.
He has been a Market Maker and Floor Broker on the CBOE, a Partner and Assistant Vice-President at Man Financial, and a trainer of market-makers and professional option traders. Chris has provided trading and advisory services for both on-shore and off-shore hedge funds. He advised the CBOT in the development of the first option contract on the Treasury Bond futures contract and has consulted the CBOE on volatility products. He is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal and Barron's concerning options and volatility.
Rich Advisory Group provides daily and customized quantitative volatility research for the hedge fund and option prop trade community. For the trader who is looking for trading ideas in real time we can ones that make sense and make money. Our ability to target situations and stocks and provide trading strategies that have defined risk/reward characteristics provides alpha for the busy fund manager/trader who has too much on his plate.
We can be your outsourced option and volatility research firm providing you with what you need, when you need it.
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SchwarzPines Analytic (SPA) |
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Portfolio Search, Inc. (PSI) web-delivers SPA providing objective, fundamental insights to enable the professional to improve
investment performance. Our novel measurements of earnings, shareholder equity and cash flow go below the surface in calculating the firm’s true financial track record and comparing it to the firm’s reported figures. Additionally, only SPA provides a Fundamental Strength Score that weighs an individual company against the backdrop of firms 3,000 firms evaluated.
Equity investments are at risk if the investor takes P&L reports at face value, depends solely on traditional analysis, or overlooks balance sheet dynamics. Company’s real earnings are frequently distorted by creative accounting, analysts ignoring non-recurring charges, and the managing of balance sheet accounts to buffer reported earnings. SPA pierces this facade enabling its subscribers to avoid overpriced securities and identify growth opportunities.
With SPA, simply keying in a ticker symbol allows the subscriber to validate that the firm’s real financial underpinnings are consistent with his investment hypothesis.
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SNL Financial |
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Founded in 1987, SNL Financial is the single best source for financial information on business sectors critical to the global economy. SNL collects, standardizes and disseminates all relevant corporate, financial, market and M&A data plus news and analytics for the industries we cover: banking, specialized financial services, insurance, real estate, energy and media & communications. Leading investment banks, investment managers, corporate executives, rating agencies, government agencies, consulting firms, law firms and media all rely on SNL for the best possible information on the companies in our sectors of coverage.
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Wall Street Source
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A news, research and data aggregation service that combines and organizes over 150 different feeds. WSS allows multiple portfolio building and monitoring. It is used by hundreds of buy-side professionals in both trading and portfolio management.
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Contact Richard Fremont, Vice President, Institutional Execution Group, toll free 877 527-7716. Or e-mail .
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