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Business & Market Intelligence | Investment Research
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Business & Market Intelligence
GSIC through its strong networks and wide reach is able to source exclusive deals for its private equity clients. These deals are closely scrutinized and selected by GSIC keeping in mind our client's investment philosophy, risk-taking capacity and expected return on investment. |
A. Business Research
Business intelligence through dedicated and customized research is the key for effective decision making. The focal point of GSIC Business Research Solutions is to aid clients in identifying market opportunities, developing market entry strategies, conducting competitor and industry analysis in order to gain valuable insights into the project-feasibility.
Our Studies include detail profiling of key macro and micro economic drivers for an industry through an analysis of business operations across any geography, analyzing and profiling the buyers, suppliers, vendors and competitors in the industry, related litigation and Government policy initiatives. GSIC Team aims to provide to this knowledge through various premium data sources and business insights for informed decision making. Our Business Research capabilities can be broadly categorized into:
- Market Assessment and Forecasting
- Identifying and evaluating market trends and key drivers through sector monitoring
- Market attractiveness and entry feasibility analysis
- Market modeling and trend analysis
- Strategic growth opportunity identification and expansion assessment
- Regulatory environment analysis
- Competitive Intelligence and Benchmarking Studies
- Industry environment and key competitor analysis: Key players profiling, pricing strategies, distribution strategies, management structure, M&A activities, tracking current business trends
- Porter's 5 Forces and SWOT analysis for long term strategic planning
- Performance measurement and comparison
- Benchmarking and evaluation
- New Product Development
- Concept Testing
- Product Benchmark Testing
- Position of brand relative to competitors; Price Sensitivity research and Segmentation Study
- Usage and Attitude Study
- Media Evaluation and Brand Name Testing
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B. Market Research
At GSIC, we understand the innate complexities of providing market research outsourcing services from an offshore delivery base. To cater to the business needs of global marketing and market research organizations, we have established robust in-house processes with a view to ensure proper implementation and maintain quality, accuracy and integrity of the deliverables, with the objective of reducing your costs and improving productivity by outsourcing parts of your operations to our offshore centers in India.
GSIC has experience across all major areas of market research (web surveys, CATI, CAPI, focus groups, business and consumer marketing research), which enables us to provide full service market research and engineer customized research solutions for global organizations. We aim to deliver actionable feedback from your target consumers in an efficient manner by engaging with you throughout the project lifecycle and capturing insights from all your stakeholders - customers, employees and target consumers. Our customers, both national and global, are from a range of industries and disciplines like FMCG/CPG, financial services, technology, hospitality, consumer electronics, durables, automobiles, websites and portals and others.
We derive our strength from a proven ability to execute small ad-hoc projects as well as large multiple-geographic studies and provide market research solutions to national and global organizations across different industry domains. Our services include:
- Survey Programming
We design surveys with built-in skip pattern and zero duplication intelligence. We have the capability to design web based survey programs by incorporating features like secured access to the site hosted, site traffic monitoring, percentage calculation and many more.
- Data Collection
Our data collection techniques include CATI, CAPI, online surveys and pen and paper based surveys. Various methods of data collection used by us include:
- Web surveys - design, development and hosting
- Telephone Surveys
- Email Surveys
- Secondary data collection
- Data Processing
- Data entry
- Data cleaning
- Data validation
- Open ended coding
- Data tabulation
- Data Scanning
- Data Analysis and Data Mining
- Churn and Predictive analysis
- Statistical analysis using standard packages
- Cross tabulation
- Significance testing
- Demand Estimation
- Conjoint analysis
- Concept Testing
- Preparing Reports and Presentations
- Reports
- White Papers
- Case Studies
- Posting and charting of tabulated data
- Document submission in various formats, i.e. PDF, HTML, XML, Word, PowerPoint
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Investment Research |
GSIC offers the world's leading investment banks, financial institutions and intermediaries an array of financial research support services ranging from Investment Banking to Islamic Consulting, using both quantitative and qualitative modeling techniques. We work closely with our clients providing customized financial research which helps them to enhance their business decisions.
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- Valuations
GSIC undertakes advanced researches to evaluate the intrinsic value of a stock. The research report provides the client an insight into the valued company along with a brief on the external environment, i.e. the economy and the industry. GSIC values a company on factors like business operations, future investment plans, capital structure, peer group, statistical analysis of stock prices, and comparative analysis of stock performance, profitability, and cost structure. The report may include revenue forecast, financial modeling, and sensitivity analysis.
- Actuarial Risk Management
Under this, GSIC does high-end actuarial research for domains listed below:
- Corporate Restructuring
This includes acquisition strategies, due diligence appraisals etc.
- Reinsurance and hedging
Operational manuals in insurance and reinsurance and enterprise risk management are some of the services included under this vertical.
- Legal Compliance Facilitation
- Product Development
This domain commences from product generation and moves on to innovation, technical estimations and pricing. Other essential considerations are also included in research.
- Risk Modeling
GSIC accounts for the various types of actuarial risks which may be legal, operational, political, social or technical in nature.
- Economy Reports
GSIC prepares, amongst the most comprehensive economy reports that entail an in-depth analysis of the economic prognosis, investment opportunities, stock markets, monetary policy, regulatory framework and vehicles for investments. We also give a sound and reasoned estimate of the projected investment inflows in the economy with a view of giving the client a concise understanding of the future state of the economy so as to identify potential sectors for investment.
- Industry Reports
Our coverage domain in an industry report includes a broad range of factors, which ordinarily depend on the relevance of that factor to the specific industry. The report generally covers the profile and structure of the industry, macroeconomic trends, marketing and supply-chain strategies, cost analysis, technological overview and demand & supply analysis. Also included is a complete profiling of the key players in terms of their fundamental performance, inventory management and business risk analysis. The report concludes with a rational SWOT analysis and a future outlook of the industry. These reports primarily help the client in identifying the potential in the industry and the performance of the top players.
- Technical Analysis
GSIC has on a continuous basis been able to maintain its expertise in technical analysis by essentially providing accurate, fast, rational and up-to-date stock and market performances using technical chartings and models. The recommendations and suggestions based on a number of traditional and contemporary indicators like TMA (third exponential moving average, SMA (simple moving average), On Balance Volume (OBV), MACD (moving average convergence divergence), RSI (relative strength index) etc. coupled with stock/quotes, statistics, market breadth and resistance and support levels makes GSIC's technical analysis and research unrivaled.
- Pitch Books
GSIC prepares the most in-depth pitch books for situations like mergers and acquisitions, investment deals etc. Its broad initial layout includes a deal rationale, business description, analysis of financials, ownership structure and a detailed industry outlook. The next part of the pitch book focuses on specific indicators/factors with respect to the type of deal. For example, specifically in a merger and acquisition deal, GSIC exhaustively elaborates on the dilution in EPS, premium paid, impact of synergy, relative growth rates etc. The pitch book concludes with the fundamental valuations using various models like DCF, Moller's model etc. depending on the rationale behind it.
- Credit Research
We provide the most comprehensive credit analysis services ranging from risk analysis, capital structure optimization, debt analysis, cash flow modeling etc. Our clients for credit research are primarily hedge fund providers and facilitators and investment bankers.
- Fund Tracking
GSIC provides support in tracking various funds across the globe. Such tracking provides real time information of the current NAVs, the fund philosophy and strategy, the fund managers brief, the fund performance vis-a-vis index performance and comparative fund performance. Furthermore, GSIC's Mutual Fund Industry Insights give a broader outlook of the economy, the industry scenario including cross-country comparisons, top AMCs, growth of AUM, scope of foreign portfolio investments, offshore fund allocations, fund size etc. It further elaborates on the top performing funds based on numerous categories of indicators like facts, returns, risk measures etc and concludes with comprehensive market indices performance.
- Index Maintenance
Under index maintenance, we break a particular index into sectors (on the basis of market capitalization or float) and continuously track it for the client. Through this, the client remains updated on the trend projected by the sectors in a particular index on a regular basis. The client is able to identify the performance and the potential of sectors to make uniform decisions regarding his portfolio.
- Fixed Income Research
- Fixed income mutual fund analysis
- Bond valuations
- Fixed income strategies - this includes daily update on bond market and yields, economic news and other information affecting the bond market.
- Derivative Research
- Drawing strategies for hedging of investment
- Trading strategies for future and options
- Daily update of derivative market
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