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Recent Moves in Sell-Side ESG Research: Credit Suisse & JPMorgan
02/24/2020
Two major investment banks, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan, have recently experienced senior personnel changes in their research teams overseeing environmental, social and governance (ESG) research.
Recent ESG Research Personnel Moves
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Jefferies Continues Poaching CLSA’s Asia Staff
12/19/2019
Following a hiring spree earlier this year where US investment bank Jefferies Financial Group hired numerous staff from CLSA’s Hong Kong, Japan and Australia offices, Jefferies has recently added close ...
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ExtractAlpha Launches “Insight” Alt Data Solution for Fundamental Investors
11/15/2019
ExtractAlpha, a Hong Kong-based quantitative research firm providing alternative data and predictive models for institutional investors, recently announced it is launching a new product called “Insight” – an analytics solution ...
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Macquarie Formalizes Cash Equities Retreat While Partnering with Kepler Cheuvreux
10/30/2019
After reducing its London-based cash equities staff in 2018 and exiting Canada earlier this year, Macquarie Capital announced it would shut down all its cash equities activities outside the Asian ...
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BNP Paribas Outsourcing Most Asian Stock Research to Morningstar
07/09/2019
While negotiating to assume Deutsche Bank’s prime brokerage and electronic trading businesses, BNP Paribas is downsizing its Asian research. Morningstar will provide exclusive research to BNP for 150 Asian stocks ...
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Maybank Shutters Hong Kong & China Equity Research Operations
01/31/2019
Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), recently announced that it is closing its institutional equity research coverage of the Hong Kong and China markets, to focus instead on Southeast Asian research. Maybank’s ...
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Singapore Grants $55 Million To Foster Equity Research
01/15/2019
Singapore allocated S$75 million (US$55.4 million) to incentivize new equity research initiatives and groom analysts covering small- and mid-cap companies. The new measures counteract MiFID II’s effect of reducing research ...
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New Chinese Geospatial Firm TerraQuanta Joins Fray
11/27/2018
Despite an increasingly crowded field of firms offering geospatial analysis, Chengdu-based TerraQuanta has begun offering agricultural analysis, primarily focused on the Chinese market. The company launched TerraFuture which covers more ...
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Former Credit Suisse Exec Buys Indie Research Distributor
08/10/2018
One month after purchasing a macro boutique, Credit Suisse’s former head of its Asian equity and fixed income markets business has acquired IND-X Advisors Ltd, a Hong Kong-based company that ...
Research Aggregator Smartkarma Partners With Asian Corporate Access Provider
07/31/2018
Four months after launching its own corporate access pilot, Smartkarma announced it is collaborating with independent corporate access provider CorpXSasia. Smartkarma insists the two ventures are complimentary not competitive.
CorpXSasia routinely ...