As equity research analysts at Acuity Knowledge Partners, we thrive on analytical discussions to keep improving our fundamental research skills. We like to stay abreast of trends and discuss different sectors, company results and strategies, regulatory and technological changes, macroeconomic and geopolitical factors and now, the pandemic. However, as we…

Energy transition plays a vital role in addressing rising concerns about global warming and environmental degradation. As part of the Paris Agreement 2015, over 180 nations have agreed to a common goal of limiting the increase in global average temperature to well below 1.5°C by 2050. A significant increase in…

Why PIPE? The global lockdowns have slowed economic activity. Most companies would need funding to both restart their businesses and keep them going. Gaining access to funding via debt or equity without much scrutiny is easy when markets are stable and everything is functioning smoothly. However, in difficult situations such…

A robust and comprehensive database is a basic requirement for a financial firm’s system infrastructure to be able to produce accurate data when needed, and a data infrastructure needs to be reliable and accessible. Data innovators constantly seek to obtain accurate data and develop processes to utilise data at an…

Introduction It came, it spread, it wrecked. What started just as news in one corner of the world soon engulfed it. Now, almost half of the year into it, normalcy is still a far cry, with 73% of the respondents (mostly C-suite executives) to an E&Y survey believing the COVID-19…

U.S. Municipal market activity was at the rock bottom level due to Covid-19 during March but started showing the sign of recovery after Fed’s intervention which was evident in the market in following months and continues to stabilize. This helps in boosting the confidence among the players in the municipal…

Are you preparing to expand your business and operations to the next level? Do you want to advance your in-house skills set without incurring extra costs? Do you want to strive for something exceptional to enhance your competitiveness? Most companies outsource market research services (such as computer-assisted web interviewing…

Gone are the days when investment compliance was seen as a mundane function of investment management. In the post-financial crisis world, the investment compliance function is considered to be a partner to the frontline business, a partner that needs to be empowered on par with the frontline business to meet…

Digital transformation in healthcare is the use of digital technologies to deliver health services — has come a long way from the time it started a few decades ago. Much of the coveted work has been in managing health records, but there has also been considerable progress made in drug…