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Aug 08, 2015
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Funds Need Information
“Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffet
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What They Use Primary data sources Aggregation
Research Companies Automated Analysis
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The Pain of Research
£10 billion80%
ofavailable data &
information
every week per analyst on research
1 day
on earningsevery year
Hedge Funds research too inefficiently! They…
waste… can’t capture… lose…
…despite spending £1bn pa. worldwide on research
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Sources:- Basex. 2009. Intel’s War on Information Overload: A Case Study. - Citi Prime Finance. 2012. 2012 Hedge Fund Business Expense Survey: Industry-Wide Benchmarks for Managing a Hedge
Fund Organization.- Deloitte. 2011. The economic impact of the ‘Information Glut’. Hitachi Data Systems.
Our Solution
1. Collecting2. Organising3. Contextualising
Faster research through automated consolidation of information by…
…Data in the form of:
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The Advantage!
In 3 hours, you…
...research
...analyse
Current Methods With Us
120 min
20 min
60 min 160 min
Less research. More analysis.
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Time
Insi
ght
News Timeline
Business Intelligence
Search Engines / Databases
Market Research
Value
Getting More Insight!
Market Potential
£1bn£200m
Hedge Funds’ annual research expenditure
In the UK Worldwide
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Sources:- Citi Prime Finance. 2012. 2012 Hedge Fund Business Expense Survey: Industry-Wide Benchmarks for Managing a Hedge
Fund Organization.- TheCityUK. 2014. Key Facts About UK Financial And Related Professional Services.
The Product
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBeIhtZLTWw Video:
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Technical Process
1. Retrieve unstructured data and store it in our database2. Automatically organise data into clusters based on textual
analysis3. Display the information on any search topic in the form of
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Key Differentiation
1. Data Hunt
2. Assembly
3. Analysis
4. Form insight
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Decision Process:
- Currently +60% of time is spent manually hunting and assembling data
- But, value is really generated at the analysis stage - That’s why we bring focus to analysis quicker
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Product Shot
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