Research

At Global Research Consortium we believe under promising and over delivering is a good business model and we are determined to avoid:

Each of our research members has a different set of needs.  Some require:

• Active, hands on sales support
• A distribution platform
• A collection mechanism

And some require nothing more than our assurance that GRC will always treat them the same as we treat our institutional trading clients.

Our research providers include:

• AccessPointeChina - Access Pointe was founded with one clear purpose: To offer global investors access to timely, relevant information on a wide spectrum of subjects related to investing in China. China has been undergoing a rapid transition to a capitalist system, and has emerged from this renaissance as a primary engine for world economic growth. Marginal changes in demand and production by Chinese consumers and manufacturers are having a profound impact on the global prices of a wide range or commodities.
• America’s Research Group – consumer research experts Britt Beemer and Derek Noce have teamed up to develop robust and highly detailed consumer surveys in the Core American Shopper, USA in Motion, and Your Customer’s Voice.
• Asbury Research – delivers a host of reports covering the spectrum of market influences, with detailed charts, commentary and perspective — giving investors decision-making clarity.
• Boyar Intrinsic Value Research – has been published by Mark Boyar since 1975. It seeks possible investment opportunities across the market capitalization spectrum and within a diverse range of industries.  BIVR looks at a corporation and its asset base in the same manner as an acquisition minded executive would. Mark and his team examine a company’s balance sheet, tear it apart  and reconstruct it in accordance with economic reality as opposed to generally accepted  accounting  principles.
• Housing Research Center – premium quality, objective, unbiased, timely, “on-the-ground”, comprehensive research of the housing market helping clients to anticipate new trends and developments days and months in advance of when the news becomes common knowledge.
• Insync - INSYNC is a state-of-the-art technical and fundamental portfolio allocation tool that our clients use to simultaneously screen for both technical and fundamental attributes across our universe of 17,000 securities.  The product is supported by independent research that focuses on market trends, sector rotation and individual equity analysis.  Clients also receive confidential portfolio reviews and consultations.
• Riedel Research – Riedel Research Group is an independent equity research service focused on the global emerging markets.  Riedel provides both bottoms-up, company-specific research and thematic and macro analysis of opportunities in Asia ex-Japan, Latin American and Emerging Europe.  By becoming members of a region (Asia, Latin America, Emerging Europe or Global), organizations have access to an integrated set of services including: regular company coverage reports, up-to-date investment decision advice (buy, hold, sell), monthly regional and global conference calls, corporate governace reviews and  fraud detection, customized company reports and unlimited on-line access to the program’s services. Riedel provides research coverage of companies across the full range of market capitalization. Experienced research professionals in each market develop company reports and analysis as well as earnings models and projections. Ratings are Buy, Hold and Sell with a focus on compelling investment ideas – both long and short. Downloadable, dynamic earnings models are built to facilitate sensitivity analysis. Riedel’s retainer-based model, in which all members have unlimited access to all produced research, whether they are company coverage reports or custom reports, is central to RRG’s “intelligence-of-scale” business model. This model allows members to receive exponential benefits for their membership.
• John Tumazos Very Independent Research – provides fundamental research servicing institutional investors on the global commodities markets and companies that participate in the global metals, mining and forestry sectors. The firm’s  proprietary financial models, data and extensive industry knowledge allow JTVIR to identify inflection points within commodity cycles and how these trends impact the valuation of companies in the research coverage universe.
• Turning Point Analytics - is the product of more than 25 years trading and 13 years as a head trader developing trading and risk strategies for the General Partners and portfolio managers of investment firms.  TPA is designed to optimize entry and exit points to add alpha, while minimizing portfolio risk.  TPA uses the proprietary Trend-Range Method in conjunction with market, sector, commodity, FX, and economic analysis to advise clients based on their focus universe of stocks.
• Two Rivers Analytics- an institutional research firm focused on short ideas (for long/short funds) and stocks at risk (for long managers).  They uncover overvalued growth stocks beginning to break, balance sheet/liquidity shorts and earnings manipulators/red flag shorts.  Using a hybrid quantitative/fundamental process, they rank 1200+ US companies weekly and publish fundamental work on the best short names.  TRA also reviews clients’ portfolios for hidden risks and publishes a model long/short portfolio.
• Zeno Consulting Group, LLC – Zeno Consulting Group (formerly Plexus) is a boutique consulting firm and Registered Investment Advisor that provides trade cost analysis services to the institutional investor community .  Zeno has been providing equity TCA, as well as transition  analytics and consulting services since the late 1980’s. In 2011, Zeno will be introducing  two new trading evaluation services, FX and Fixed Income.